• [Avram ??] Calderon -m. [??]
  According to family lore there was at least one other brother besides Rahamim.
  • [??] Calderon -m. [??]
    Unknown number of children.
    • [daughter] Calderon -m. [??] Bueno
      According to family lore, this family lived in New Lots (Brooklyn, NY) among countrymen.
      • [4 daughters]
      • [1 son]
  • *Rahamim (ben Avram ? ) Calderón - m. (1) [Mazal Tov?] [ ?? ]
    Based on traditional naming patterns Rahamim's first wife's name may have been Mazal Tov. She perished giving birth to a daughter. Rahamim married his second wife to care for the babe.
    After the first wife, in the days of the stepmother, the children of the first wife were known as "la familia Shunak."
    Rahamim was probably deceased by 1909, when Perets emigrated, for he listed as his nearest relative in Monastir "my mother Klara Kalderon"—Rahamim's second wife
    Children from the first wife: Perets (emigrated to the US), Moshe (moved to Sofia), [daughter, name unknown].
    • *Perets ("Bohor") Calderón -m. *Miriam/Mary (Buena) Testa.
      Buena was a daughter of Avram ("Avram Perica") and Leah Testa..
      Perets arrived in the USA April 19, 1909, at Ellis Island aboard the motor vessel Themistocles from the port of Piraeus (sailing March 31, 1909). He is listed as 23 years old, single, and registered in the ship's manifest as "Bohor Kalderon". Based on this he would have been 50 years old when he passed away, somewhat older than his children always thought he was. It could be that he made himself older for the purpose of leaving Monastir.
      [Mysteriously, he lists as his contact in the US, "my brother Mordohaï ?Sabeicaloim?" at 176 Chrystie St, NYC. Although the surname is not easily deciphered in the manifest, it opens a question as to whether his step-mother Klara might have had children before she married Rahamim.]
      For a summary of his life as it was memorialized at the time of his death, see the transcription of his obituary, below.
      Children of Perets and Buena: Molly, Lillian, Rahamim, Albert, Louis.
      • Molly (Mazal Tov) Calderon - m. (1) Joe Suretsky
        • Morris Calderon - m. [??]
          • [??]
          • [??]
          • [??]
        • Rosalind "Roz" Calderon - m. [??] Jurman
          [Margate, Florida]
          • [??]
          • [??]
      • [Molly] - m. (2) George Perschitz
      • Lillian (Leah) Calderon - m. [Rabbi] Morris (Moshe) Cassorla
        Morris was a son of Haham Bohor Haim Elias Cassorla and Vida.
        He was known in the family variously as Moïse, Moshi, or Moshón.
        First job in the US was with Ontario Cap Co of Rochester NY. Did business for many years in New York City as Jerry Sportswear, manufacturer of ladies' sportswear.
        Children of Morris and Lillian: Elie, Peris, Hyman.
        • Elie (Eliyahu) Cassorla - m. Judith Evans (Yocheved bat Mordechai haCohen v'Hana) Nash
          As the first-born, I remember always being introduced by my father as: This is my bohor. For a long time I thought my name was actually my bohor.
          Provided by Elie Cassorla
          Judy's mother was born Migden. The Migden family, though Ashkenazic, believes their name to be derived from Macedon. (In Greek, the word is spelled with a kappa, giving rise to, for example, the place name Mukden, in Asia, in honor of Alexander, the Macedonian conqueror.)
          • Jonathan (Yonah) Cassorla - m. Alison (Hana bat Ephraim) Fields
            Alison is the second daughter of Fred (Ephraim ben Yitzhak) Fields (originally Fidelholtz) and Irene (née Rothfeder).
            • Erica Anne (Yisraela) Cassorla
            • Jessica Robin (Yocheved Rachel) Cassorla
          • Mark (Moshe) Cassorla [PhD] - m. Kate ('Zipora bat Avraham) Clark
            Kate is the second daughter of Dr Wallace Clark and Carol.
            • Dina Cassorla
            • Meira Cassorla
            • Eliyahu Cassorla
        • Peris (Peretz) Cassorla [LCol USAFR(Ret)] - m. Lita J. Keller (mother Shirley)
          • Shira Lea Cassorla -m. Mike Thompson
            • Amber Nicole
          • Louis Joseph Cassorla
        • [Rabbi]Hyman/Haim Cassorla - m. Rachel Stacy [RN]
          Rachel is the daughter of Robert Sherman Stacy and Audrey (née Gray).
          Haim is currently the Rabbi of Moses Montefiore Synagogue in Appleton, WI.
          • Moshe Benjamin Cassorla - m. Dina Pinkowski
            • Joseph Robert Cassorla
          • Tamar Cassorla
            • Oren Cassorla
          • Leah Cassorla
          • Hadas Cassorla m. Roberto Aguilar
        {End of descendant lists for Lillian Calderon Cassorla, daughter of Perets and Miriam Calderon.}
      • Rahamim (Ray/Rochman) Calderon - m. Betty (Rebecca) Salerno
        Betty was orphaned at a young age, and was brought up by an aunt.
        • Regina Calderon - m. (1) Gershon Lemberger
          [Previously of San Bruno, California]
          • Bertha Lemberger -m. [??] Briscoe
            • Rebecca M. Briscoe
          • Rahamen Lemberger
          • Clarese Lemberger
        • [Regina] - m. (2) Hans Krause
          Regina and Hans—only recently married—perished together tragically in an auto accident, on March 2, 2003.
        • Perris Calderon -m. Susan Marshall
          [Texas]
          My maiden name was Marshall. I have found out that the Marquis (Markee, Markie) family, my paternal grandmother's side, are registered Sephardic Jews in Spain. They had left during the Inquisition for England/Scotland and arrived in the USA as Methodists. I was not a Methodist! I followed my Jewish roots as a teenager and was fortunate enough to meet Perry. It's funny/odd how life eventually comes full circle.
          • Beth Calderon
            [Boston, MA]
          • George Calderon
            [Texas]
        • Joseph Calderon - m. Carol [??]
          • Patricia Joy Calderon
      • Albert (Avraham) Calderon - m. Lorraine Cohen
        • Robin Calderon -m. [??]
          • [??]
          • Nicky
        • Perry Calderon -m. (1) [??]
          • [??]
        • [Perry] -m. (2) [??]
          • [??]
      • Louis (Louie) Calderon - m. Lily Hora
        [Lily was the daughter of Nissim and Palomba Hora.]
        They have been in the antiques business since the 1960s.
        • Benay Calderon
        • Paula Calderon -m. [??]
        • Perris Calderon
        • Benay Nina Calderon - m. Michael Karp
          Benay has a successful show-biz animal business. Visit it at www.benaysanimals.com.
          • Rachael Karp
          • Sarah Karp
          • Andrew Karp
    • Moshe Calderon -m. [??]
      Moved to Sofia, Bulgaria, then emigrated to "Ha'Aretz".
      A photo of them taken in Sofia, at the "Zatzev" photography studio.
      • [daughter]
    • [name unknown] daughter of Rahamim Calderon
      Her mother died while giving birth to her. She was brought up by Rahamim's second wife.
  • [*Rahamim (ben Avram ? ) Calderón] - m. (2) Klara [ ?? ]
    Apparently Rahamim married his second wife to care for his family, especially his infant daughter, after his first wife died in childbirth. This type of thing was not uncommon in those days. The second wife apparently was not nice to the boys, paying most of her attention to the little girl.
    Nevertheless, when Perets emigrated, he listed as his nearest relative in Monastir "my mother Klara Kalderon", suggesting that his father may have been deceased also by 1909.

Obituary of Perets Rahamim Calderón from La Vara

This obituary appeared in La Vara, the Spanish-Jewish Weekly published by The Sephardic Publishing Co., then of 7 Rivington St, New York City. At that time the masthead listed Albert Levy as the Editor and Albert J. Torres as the Business Manager. The obituary was published in three columns, each in a different language or script. The leftmost column was in Spañol, using Hebrew letters; the middle column was in Spañol, using Latin, or English letters; the right column was in English.