KISSIN' COUSINS


    In different generations there have been a number of relatives within the extended
Solomon Family who have married one another.
Consequently there are several family branches who are related to one another on more than one level simultaneously!

www.cousincouples.com

The above site highlights famous people, including Albert  Einstein, who married their first cousins. Did you know that Charles Darwin married his first cousin
Emma Wedgwood? 
They had 10 children, all healthy, some brilliant.

          It has been estimated that 20 percent of all couples worldwide are first cousins. It is also estimated that 80 percent of all marriages historically have been between first cousins!

Interesting Cousin Facts:

      In some cultures, the term cousin and mate are synonymous. 

        No European country prohibits marriage between first cousins. 
  It is also legal throughout Canada and Mexico
to marry your cousin. 
        The USA is the only western country with
                   cousin marriage restrictions.        

   The first Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. MacDonald
married his first cousin.

 President Franklin D. Roosevelt the longest serving US president in history,
married his cousin  
    (not a first cousin, however they shared the same last name). 

    God commanded many cousins to marry, including 
Zelophehad's five daughters. 
       The Patriarch Jacob married both Rachel and Leah 
who were his first cousins. 
      And his father Isaac and mother Rebekah were first cousins       
                             once removed. (1C1R)                                 

    Chapter 18 of the Book of Leviticus lists all forbidden sexual relationships. 
     
         Cousin relationships are not included.        

Summary of "Cross-over" Marriages 
  in the extended Family 
Solomon - Atkins - Rogow

 And, please let us know whether there are 
others to be added to this list / chart!

Please take note:
The spouses of certain descendants may be named here only to clarify the link or "cross-over" in relative intermarriages.
 This is not meant to represent a completed family tree.
The letter "m" abbreviates "marriage" and "c" abbreviates
"circa" or "approximately".
(**) indicates that the individual is additionally linked to interfamilial marriages.

Shlomo & Chana (Posner) Solomon:
our common ancestors 
 
  Solomon Cousins Family Reunion

There was a 21/22 year age difference between the eldest and the youngest of their 8 children who were:
Chaisora (Sarah)Solomon (**) m. Hershel Leib Atkins (**);   
Joe Solomon m. Rachel (Rogow?) (Grieben?);
Nathan Solomon m. Katie Grieben;
Becky Solomon m. Sam Salkovitch;
Harry Solomon (**) m. Dora Rogow (**);
Mary Solomon (**) m. Benny Rogow (**);
Bertha Solomon m. Joe Persky;
Chava(Eva)Solomon (**) m. Harry(Lifshitz)Lipton (**)

(It is their descendants who comprise the "Solomon Cousins" who have convened the Family Reunion in Toronto on October 9, 2005.)

"Cross-Over Marriages"
I
Chaisora(Sarah)Solomon MARRIED Hershel Leib (Henry)Atkins                         (**)   c.1895                              (**)


His parents were Meier-Raphael & Boonye Raisel Atkins.
(He had 12 (!) children who survived into adulthood, his
second wife was It'ka)

Her parents were Shlomo & Chana (Posner) Solomon.
(They had 8 children. See above.)
    
Chaisora (Solomon) & Hershel Leib Atkins had 7 children:

Benny Atkins m. Ida (Goldberg); Joe Atkins m.Chaika;
Frances Atkins m. Kay Kadish; Abe (Al) Atkins m. Alice;
Adele Atkins  m. Bill Brown;
Harry Atkins m. Faye;
Lillian Atkins (**) m. Albert Kokotow (**)

II
Sara Etta (Sarita) Atkins MARRIED Itzik (Isaac) Rogow
                      (**)         c.?                      (**)

      His parents were Alex  &  ? Rogavoy (later-Rogow) 
     (They had 13 children, only 3 brothers survived: 
      Itzik(Isaac), Mendel and Shmuel Rogow).
  (**)

Her parents were Meier-Raphael & Boonye-Raisel Atkins.
(See above. He had 12 children with 2 wives.)

Sara Etta (Sarita) Atkins and Hershel Leib (Henry) Atkins 
 were sister and brother. They are 2 of the children of
 Meier-Raphael and Boonye-Raisel Atkins. He had
12 children with 2 wives. (See I, above)


Sara Etta (Sarita) Atkins & Itzik Rogow had 6 children 

     Benny Rogow (**) m. Mary Solomon (**)              
Dora Rogow (**) m. Harry Solomon (**) 
       Alex Rogow m. ?; Max Rogow m. Martha (?);
             Raizel Rogow (**) m. Shmuel Rogow (**)    
                  (her paternal uncle!) 
  Esther Rogow m. Ben Hoffman
      
      III
       Mary Solomon MARRIED Benjamin Rogow
              (**)         c. 1908               (**)      

His parents were Itzik (Isaac) & Sara Etta(Sarita Atkins) Rogow
(They had 6 children. See II above).

     Her parents were Shlomo & Chana (Posner) Solomon.
(They had 8 children. See I above.)

Benny's sister Dora married his wife Mary's brother,
  Harry Solomon, and his sister Raizel, married their
paternal uncle, Shmuel Rogow!

   Mary (Solomon) & Benny Rogow had 8 children:

      Joe Rogow m. Adele Goldman;
Alex (Rogow) Roger m. Marjorie Kasler;
 Rose Rogow m. Herb Schacher;
Adeline Rogow m. Meyer Levine;
Sam Rogow (killed in WW II); Esther Rogow m. Phil Moscoe;
 Kay Rogow m. Sam Davis;
Ralph (Rogow) Roger m. Beverley Ingram.

     IV
 Harry Solomon  MARRIED  Dora Rogow
              (**)     c.1907?          (**)     
 
         These siblings share the same sets of parents and in-laws.
  See III above. 

     Harry's sister Mary was also his sister-in-law, and Dora's brother Benny, was also her
brother-in-law.  It is their respective children who are
  "cousins german"
or double first cousins and who share
the same collateral and linear relatives.


       Harry Solomon & Dora Rogow had 8 children:

Alex Solomon m. Gertie Shapiro;
Joe Solomon m. Celia Adams;
 Meyer (Mike) Solomon (**) m. Sarah Grafstein;
 Abraham (Abie) Solomon m. Muriel Davis;
Sammy Solomon (accidental death at age 15)
Max Solomon m. Lillian Kopstick;
Ida (Adeline) Solomon m. Abe Wagman;
 Rose (Rosie) Solomon m. Morris Freedman

  V    
 Eva(Chava)Solomon MARRIED Harry(Arye/Aron)Lifshitz(Lipton) 
   (**)                 c. 1916               (**)

Eva Solomon & Harry Lipton had 3 children
 
Sam Lipton m. Shirley Golosky 
Rivy (Reva) Lipton m. Murray Perelman
Marvin Lipton (1st m. Rhoda Goodman, div.)
m. Carole Robertson

      

Harry Lipton's trade as a tailor spanned more than 50 years. In his latter years this ability was still acknowleged. As a retiree, in 1967 his needlework garnered a 2nd prize and an Honourable Mention at the Canadian National Exhibition! Go Zaida!

       Eva Solomon and Harry Lifshitz (Lipton)
    were first cousins and their marriage was arranged by their parents

This is the story.

   Eva's older sister Bertha was pregnant with her first child 
when Bertha's husband Sam
 developed a severe toothache 
and went to a dentist 
to have the tooth extracted. 
Soon after the procedure 
he developed a raging infection 
(he had haemophilia)
   and died just a short few days later. 
     Bertha was now a young widow, 
and was pregnant 
      and her family was concerned 
        about how she would be able to manage. 

Her father, Shlomo Solomon (whose surname was actually Shuster) had one brother, Israel Shuster,
and two sisters, Freda and Sarah.
    (Israel and Freda had settled in Toronto.)
     Freda was married to Velvel Borovoy 
 and they had 8 children.
     (One of her grandsons is lawyer Alan Borovoy.)  

Shlomo's sister Sarah had remained in 
Mogilev, Belarus, and was married
to Moishe Lifshitz.
  They had 8 or 9 children, one of whom was Arye (Harry) Lifshitz (Lipton). This was the era during WW I and just before the Russian Revolution. Economic times were tough and Harry 
was facing forced conscription into the Russian Army. 

He was a quiet young man,
colour-blind, 
with a gentle personality. His parents were
     very worried about his future. So it was decided that
he would go to his uncle, 
   Shlomo Solomon in Toronto.
 There the family would help him
    to find work as a schneider (a tailor),
     and assuming that he and Bertha did not find
     anything seriously objectionable about one another,
      they would be married, and Bertha's unborn child
   would have a father. 

 It took several months to arrange Harry's exit logistics 
and to underwrite his travel, and additional time
 (traveling on a very limited budget)
    to journey through Europe, to England and then to Canada. 
Before Harry arrived, an engaging young man
(also seeking to escape from the Russian army)
whose name was Joe Persky
presented himself in Toronto. He had been advised
to go and see Shlomo Solomon.
Joe arranged his room and lodging in the establishment run by
Shlomo's daughter, Chaisora (Sarah) and her husband
    Hershel Leib (Henry) Atkins.  

And who was there helping their sister Chaisora
with the endless daily chores running a household 
which included seven children
  as well as boarders?
       Why the youngest sisters of course, Bertha and Eva. 
    And Joe Persky was exciting, he was fun, 
he was full of life. Bertha fell in love with him. 
And so did Eva.

    But in any generation finding the right marriage partner 
is not an easy task,
      and before long it became clear that
Joe was smitten with sister
   Becky (Solomon) Salkovitch
(who was married (!) to Sam Salkovitch 
and therefore officially off limits).

So now here's a tangle that's sixfold. 

         Bertha (recently widowed, pregnant with her 
      deceased husband's child) has fallen in love with Joe, 
   and so has her youngest sister Eva.
And Joe's in love with Becky,
      who's already married to Sam!     
    Then who should arrive but Harry, 
engagement token in hand, expecting to marry Bertha! 
  But Bertha's going to have a baby 
 and needs to be settled quickly,
and she's in love with Joe. 
(And Becky's already married.)  

So in short order Zaida Shlomo and 
Bubbie Chana Solomon 
set about marrying Bertha off to Joe Persky, 
 (and when the baby's born he's given 
the name Sam Persky) 
and the couple move to Chicago.
 
    And Zaida Shlomo and Bubbie Chana advise 
their youngest daughter Eva to marry 
        her cousin Harry, and they tell her that they believe 
that he's a hard worker
     and that he will be good to her.  

       And Harry presented a few arguments of his own. 
    He knew that as the youngest sister,
   the baby of the family, Eva had spent an
     inordinate amount of her time assisting her sisters,
 helping to care for their many babies, washing diapers,
     cooking, babysitting etc. 

 He accompanied his proposal to her with the offer
that she could be her own boss. 
 He suggested to her that after marrying him, 
   she wouldn't have to take orders from anybody. 
She believed him. 

   They were married on December 24, 1916.