Flora Blumer Lazarus (née Cohen)

We know little about Flora Blumer Lazarus (née Cohen).

She was born in Aldgate, London, around 1833, and was 2-3 years older than Morris.

At the time of her marriage to Morris on December 6th, 1854, she was living at 33 New Street, Gravel Lane.



(Above: Photo with the Geisler children; approx 1906, in Brighton)


It seems she was the daughter of Michael Cohen (deceased before 1851) and Phoebe Cohen (Maiden name unknown). She had an older brother Moses, and a younger sister Sarah.

After her marriage, she and Morris moved into 3 Princes Court, where her mother and stepfather. Isaac Allen lived. Their first child Mary was born there in 1855.

By 1859, they were living at 10 Vinegar Yard, Brydges St, Long Acre, where Catherine was born.

From 1860- 1866, they lived at 126 Drury Lane, moving briefly to 2 Conduit Court, Long Acre, and then on to 46 Drury Lane in 1871. In 1873, they moved temporarily to 27 York Street, Southwark, and in 1878, the family resettled above their new butcher's shop at 26 Draper Street, Newington Butts.

(Photo above: probably taken in the mid 1880's)

Phoebe (named for Flora's mother) married John Stutchfield in 1888, and it appears she and Morris didn't attend the wedding (probably as R.E. Stutchfield was a Gentile, though he converted at some stage to Judaism, and was buried in a jewish cemetery.)

When the younger son John married in 1898, neither Flora nor Morris were in attendance, as far as we can see from the wedding photos. At the time of Morris' death in 1901 they were still living at Draper Street, but were on a trip to South Africa.

Flora was still alive in the 1920's and spent much time with her daughters and grandchildren in South Africa and Britain. We are unsure of the date or place of her passing.