Family Ashmele
Family Notes...Sadie Freedman, her brother and sisters.
Louis Leslie, son of Morris Freedman and Yetta Freizeit/Fraser, was born in August 1910
Lou lived with his parents and his sisters until his marriage to Molly Rich in April 1946 at the Brondsbury Synagogue in Willesden, London, by which time he had changed his family name to Freeman. They had two children - Alan (b.1947, UK) and Paul (b.1949, USA). Lou and Molly were later divorced.
Lou was a manufacturing chemist, producing and selling his own shampoo. After the death of his parents, he moved into their flat in Manor House on the Barnsbury Estate in Islington, London.
Lou died in January 1965 (10 Shevat) at the age of 54 following a heart operation at the Middlesex Hospital in London. He is buried at the Jewish Federation Cemetery at Rainham, Essex, in front of his parents graves.
Anne, daughter of Morris Freedman and Yetta Freizeit/Fraser, was born in April 1912 in Bethnal Green, in the East End of London.
At the age of 18 Anne married Woolf (Will) Shear, a master cabinet maker, in April 1931 at the Borough Synagoge in Southwark, London. The marriage was witnessed by Hyman Freedman, possibly her father's brother. They had one child - Neville (b.1931), and lived in Stamford Hill, before emigrating to California, USA in 1948.
Anne died in August 1983 in Los Angeles, California.
This branch of the family tree includes the following family names - Spound, Kahan.
Ray, daughter of Morris Freedman and Yetta Freizeit/Fraser, was born in November 1914
Ray married Morris Baker in London had three children - Brian (b.1940?), Derek (b.1945), and Howard/Pug (b.1960?). Ray later left Morris and took her sons to California, USA.
Ray died July 1997 in California, just 10 days before her sister died in London.
This branch of the family tree includes the following family names - Baker.
Sadie Freedman (mother)...
Sadie Freedman, daughter of Morris Freedman and Yetta Freizeit/Fraser, was born April 1916 in Bethnal Green, in the East End of London. During 1917, Sadie lived with her parents, brother Louis, and her sisters Ray and Anne, at Cobb Street before moving to Commercial Road. From 1923 to 1932, they lived above the tailoring and boot shop at Lower Marsh in Lambeth.
Whilst living at Clifton Court in Maida Vale, London, Sadie was introduced to Sam Ashmele, a divorcee and managing director of an upholstery manufacturing business. Since Sam did not receive a get (Jewish divorce) from his first wife, he and Sadie were married under the auspices of the reform movement in October 1946 at the West London Synagogue in Marble Arch, London.
They lived near Russell Square in London, and had two children - John (b.1947) and Linda (b.1950). Towards the end of 1962, Sam bought a lease on a larger flat but died shortly after completion. The following month, Sadie and her children moved to Hyde Park Mansions in Marylebone, but she never turned the flat into a proper home. In 1969, her son John bought a house in Kenton, Middlesex, and persuaded Sadie to give up her flat and move with him.
In 1971, six months after John married, Sadie moved to a large flat at in Willesden Green, but again never turned the flat into a proper home. She worked in various confectionery shops and for a market research company. In 1995 Sadie moved to sheltered accommodation in Willesden. This proved to be an unsatisfactory arrangement, and the following year she moved into a residential care home in Totteridge, north London. Here she eventually settled into a comfortable routine, spending most of her time reading. Although she kept to herself most of the time, Sadie proved popular with residents and staff alike, occasionally lighting candles on the Sabbath and the holidays. A tongue-in-cheek article featuring her as part of a "love-triangle" appeared in the Jewish Chronicle at this time.
Sadie was in a lot of pain from osteoporosis, and a couple of minor strokes led to dementia with her being unable to take proper care of herself. Whilst joining in a song-and-dance one evening, she slipped and fractured her head. She was taken to Barnet General Hospital where she fell into a coma and passed away in the early hours of August 1997 (27 Tammuz) at the age of 81. She is buried at Edgwarebury Lane Cemetery in Edgware, Midlesex.
This branch of the family tree includes the following family names - Ashmele, Rovnick.
Page last updated .. 14 September, 2001
