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 The
Schwabe family originated outside Berlin in the town of Dessau in Germany. Some of
the family then moved to Hamburg, and at the beginning of the nineteenth century a
succession of Schwabes emigrated to England, settling in Manchester.
These pages follow the descendants of two brothers
Philipp Benjamin and
Samson
Benjamin. For a summary of recent research on the Schwabe family please click
HERE (<--- in PDF)
and for a genealogical report of the descendants of Hirsch Schwabe click
HERE (<--- PDF).Philipp's descendants are today represented by his daughter, Fanny Maria Schwabe (pictured left). Philipp's son Gustav Christian Schwabe, who made a fortune in shipping and cotton manufacturing in Manchester and Liverpool, had no children. Samson Benjamin's descendants are today represented, as far as we know, through two lines. The first by his son Louis, whose silk factory in Manchester was among the most renowned, and second by Louis's brother Stephan whose grandson Randolph headed the Slade School of Fine Art.
These Schwabe pages are contained on the Man Family web site because one of
Fanny Maria's
great grand daughters, Nora Loeck, married
Harry Man. Fanny married
Moritz Wolff and had a number of children among whom was
Gustav Wilhelm Wolff. Two of Gustav's sisters,
Ida and Clara, married half-brothers by the name of
Thomas and Frederick May, and again this family is represented on this site.
One of Thomas and Ida's daughters, Eleanor May, married Otto Loeck whose daughter Nora married
Harry Man.
The second line of Schwabes are descended from Fanny's first cousins Stephan and Louis Schwabe (the sons of Benjamin Sampson) is also represented here. Louis Schwabe's grandson, Louis Gustav, married his cousin Evelyn May who was Fanny Schwabe's granddaughter. Other families of interest who have married into the Schwabe family and vise versa include: Ermen, Falcon, Cook, and Wolff. There would appear to be two distinct unrelated families called Schwabe, one from Dessau which is described on these pages and the other from Oldenberg in Germany. Both families had members who left for Manchester to set up cotton, silk, and calico factories, but despite the similar origins and many parallel events that the two families experienced, they are in fact unrelated. Gustav had no children and so on his wife's
death his entire fortune was left to his nephew (his sister's son)
Gustav
Wolff.
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