Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameDavid Lawrence LEVY 
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6Birth1828, Gravesend, Kent, England326
Death1893
Burial3 Dec 1893, Rookwood Old Jewish Cemetery-OGN-8-87
Death1 Dec 1893, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia327
OccupationSolicitor132
FatherLawrence LEVY (~1803-~1873)
Spouses
Birth19 Apr 1837, Port Macquarie NSW Australia328
FatherHenry (Heinz, [Hirsh]) COHEN (1790-1867)
MotherElizabeth ([Yettla]) SIMMONS (1792-1866)
Notes for David Lawrence LEVY
For more on David Lawrence Levy click on: http://genealogy.meta-studies.net/ZDocs/HCohen/HP049-50.HTM
Comment from Robert Ward (UK): David Lawrence Levy is from a very interesting family. He had a brother in Australia called William Levy Lawrence and the pair of them were discussed in the NSW parliament after David successfully organised a petition (possibly fake) to get William out of Darlinghurst gaol.
Another brother was Edward Lawrence Levy, a notorious crooked London solicitor (e.g. make an accident compensation claim and he provided well trained witnesses). Their father was Lawrence Levy, London wine merchant, theatre owner and sheriff's officer. Their grandparents, William and Elizabeth Levy, seem originally to have made their money from running a "disorderly house" and were discussed in a Parliamentary enquiry (see http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5y5bAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA449&dq=%222+CAVENDISH+C#v=onepage&q&f=false ). Their descendants include a whole host of notable people, for good reasons or bad, in almost every branch, from Ernest Lewis co founder of the UK Army and Navy Stores, to Aletta Lewis an artist better known in Australia than here, and Frank Van Neck the developer of the Van Neck press camera, and many others331.
From Phillip Kirby: have researched and posted significant data on these lines including David Lawrence Levy on British Genealogy Forum Jewish Roots. In addition, Robert Ward has written in detail about the Levy lines in Wealth and Notoriety the extraordinary families of William Levy and Charles Lewis of London April 2013 self publication Lulu.Com330 There are other connections to the various lines on your data base and I need to look more closely. See also Jacobs Tree website set up by my Jacobs cousin Dave Simpson which also has data on the various Jacobs and allied families.330
Comment from Robert Ward (UK): David Lawrence Levy is from a very interesting family. He had a brother in Australia called William Levy Lawrence and the pair of them were discussed in the NSW parliament after David successfully organised a petition (possibly fake) to get William out of Darlinghurst gaol.
Another brother was Edward Lawrence Levy, a notorious crooked London solicitor (e.g. make an accident compensation claim and he provided well trained witnesses). Their father was Lawrence Levy, London wine merchant, theatre owner and sheriff's officer. Their grandparents, William and Elizabeth Levy, seem originally to have made their money from running a "disorderly house" and were discussed in a Parliamentary enquiry (see http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5y5bAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA449&dq=%222+CAVENDISH+C#v=onepage&q&f=false ). Their descendants include a whole host of notable people, for good reasons or bad, in almost every branch, from Ernest Lewis co founder of the UK Army and Navy Stores, to Aletta Lewis an artist better known in Australia than here, and Frank Van Neck the developer of the Van Neck press camera, and many others331.
From Phillip Kirby: have researched and posted significant data on these lines including David Lawrence Levy on British Genealogy Forum Jewish Roots. In addition, Robert Ward has written in detail about the Levy lines in Wealth and Notoriety the extraordinary families of William Levy and Charles Lewis of London April 2013 self publication Lulu.Com330 There are other connections to the various lines on your data base and I need to look more closely. See also Jacobs Tree website set up by my Jacobs cousin Dave Simpson which also has data on the various Jacobs and allied families.330
Notes for David Lawrence LEVY
He arrived in Austraklia about 1853 from England and opened his ownLaw Company, specialising in Common Law. He donated a lot of moneytowards the building of the Great Synagogue and also Sydney RPAHospital.
His firm still going to-day trading as Perkins, Stevenson & Linton
His firm still going to-day trading as Perkins, Stevenson & Linton