updated 3. June 2011
Regine **
Regine Weiss-Deutsch, born 15. July, 1869 in Trnava.
Died 27. May 1962 in Melbourne.
Emigrated in 1939 with
Husband and daughter Kaethe and her family Melbourne, Australia.
Her son Alexander Weiss and his family came
via Shanghai to reach in 1946 Australia.
Husband:
Michael Max Weiss, born 18.1. 1863, died 18.7.1945 in Melbourne.
Married to Regine 15.3.1891.
He was the owner of Kaufhaus Michael Max Weiss at Altenplatz.
His brother Emmanual Max Weiss died in Vienna Sep. 8, 1939, and is buried in Vienna Zentralfriedhof,
New Jewish Section, Tor 4, Gruppe 20A, Reihe 17, Grab 20.
There were many other siblings.
Children:
Alexander J. White (Alexander Weiss), born 20.1. 1892, died 3.1. 1966.
Married on
25.5. 1926.
Margarete Salzer, born 19.2.1901, died 15.2. 1973.
Katherine (Kaethe) Weiss, born 27.6. 1897, died 3.3.1970.
Married, June 1923, Arthur Newman (Neumann), born 4.11.1889, died 3.7.1971.
Grandchildren:
Alexander's child
Kurt Robert Weiss (Robert Kenneth White), born 23.1.1928, died May 1, 1992.
Married, 22.12.1952, to Maria Burger, born 27.8. 1932.
They have two children:
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Eugene Henry, born 15.6.1955,
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Naomi Beatrice White, born 8.6.1958,
married (20.6.1986) to David Ian Setchfield, born 19.7.1954.
They have
two sons, Benjamin Crispin Setchfield, born 15.9.1990 and Maximilian
Setchfield, born 28.5. 1992.
Kaethe's children
Gerald Newman,
born 31.8.1923, died in 1986.
He married a Barbara
and had 2 children,
- Louise (born 5.1.1959) (a well-known psychiatrist in Melbourne)
- Andrew (born 30.3.1963) - a computer person
Neither are married and no
children.
Herbert Claus Newmann, born 12.10. 1927.
He married twice: 17.2.1953 Barbara Stuart Mawson, died 29.6.1981
and 9.7.1982 Mary Catherine Goodwill.
From first marriage three daughters:
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Amanda Jane Newman, born 23.11.1953, married (3.3.1979) to
Louis B. Irving, born 26.11.1950.
They have three children:
Kathrin, born 3.9.1981,
Michael, born 18.8.1983,
Clea, born 11.4.1986.
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Virginia Philippa Newman, born 10.6.1956,
married (15.4.1981) to Graeme C. Wood, born 7.1.1954.
They have two daughters:
Madeleine Wood, born 26.11.1984 and Kimberley Wood, born 20.6.1990.
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Elizabeth Anne Newman, born 1.3. 1962,
married (3.10.1990) to Michael R. Douglas, born 12.1.1963.
They have two daughters, Lena, born 31.12.1990 and Rachel, born 26.11.1993.
e-mail:
Naomi Setchfield-White: setchx2@vol.net
Left picture: (Herbert's Bar Mitzva or Michael max's 75th birthday)
Below: Regine Weiss-Deutsch, Herbert Neumann, Michael Max Weiss
Above: Raoul Gerhard Neumann, Kaethe Neumann-Weiss, Arthur Neumann,
Margrit and Alexander Weiss and son Robert
Right picture: (Robert's (Kurt) wedding)
Below: Margrit Weiss Regine Weiss, Robert Weiss and his wife, Alexander Weiss
Above: Peter Witting (?), Arthur Newman, Kaethe Newman, Barbara Newman, Herbert Newman, Fred Arndheim
(Witting and Arndheim are friend from Shanghai)
Masha Yelenevskaya (Makowsky) and Herbert Newman,
Herbert and Janos Makowsky, 2004