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Mother of
Wife of Isaak Joseph Jonasson [*1823]
Sister of Moritz Alexander Hammerschlag [*1826]
Hammerschlag & Jonasson company (1856)
M. A. Hammerschlag & Company (1860)
Isaak Joseph Jonasson, merchant and banker (1860-1894)
Lüneburg branch of Hamburg banking house E. Calmann (around 1900)
Bardowicker Straße 1 (= Am Markt)
Lüneburg
M. A. Hammerschlag family (1850s)
Isaak Joseph Jonasson family (1860-1894)
Caroline Hammerschlag was born in Nienburg in 1822, the daughter of pawnbroker Alexander Hammerschlag and his wife Jette (Jutta), née Güdemann. In 1855, she married merchant Isaac Jonasson, who came from Petershagen near Minden and lived in Lüneburg.
Caroline moved to Lüneburg to live with him. In 1856, their first son Carl Joseph was born here, who was only one year old. The couple had five more sons. Three of them died as young adults. The fourth son, Paul Moritz, stayed in Lüneburg and settled there as a doctor.
Caroline Hammerschlag died in the Deaconess Hospital Sarepta in Gadderbaum (near Bielefeld) in 1897. She was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Lüneburg.
Name variants: Jonassohn