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Marriage: Children:
  1. Jane Koschecowich: Birth: 1879. Death: 1943

  2. Abraham Koschecowich: Birth: 1880. Death: ABT 1932

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Notes
a. Note:   What follows now is of doubtful veracity, included because various people have said different things. They are here put together in some attempt at order. Woolf Koschecowich left his family and went in 1934 to Petropolis near Rio de Janeiro in Brazil where he opened an Inn or store or department store. His wife Leah (who was blond and beautiful) meanwhile made her living by selling lemonade (one fanciful account gives this as the start of R Whites lemonade; another that R Whites bought them out!). Later, hearing that he was doing well financially, his wife traced him with the financial help of her bank manager and joined him in Petropolis. The story is that on meeting him in Petropolis she threw a vase at him. They returned to London leaving the Inn or store in a partner�s hands. In London his wife died. He then returned to Petropolis to find his business ruined. There is a story of some violence involving diamond or silver mines; stampeding horses - and escaping on the remaining one, apparently there was a warrant for his arrest. He died during the war, but where? According to our US cousins, the story changes slightly: Woolf Barnard Koschecowich was a tobacconist in London. He went to Brazil where he owned tobacco plantations until his death in 1901. Leah remained in London. Either when the bank sent Leah to Brazil to check up on the situation or when two of their sons [Lionel and Joseph? Surely not Abe, or we would have known more about it] went to Brazil to claim their inheritance, it was learned that Woolf had started a second family in Brazil. - Recollections of Jules Kosky


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