Gråbrødretorv 7

[1] In 1783 the property was acquired by the Jewish merchants Moses Melchior and Akiba (Echiba) Jacobsen (1727-1793).

They had at the same time established their own trading firm under the name Moses Melchior & Echiba Jacobsen.

[2] At the time of the 1787 census, Akiba Jacobsen resided in the building with his sons Gerson (1771-1829) and Jacob (1775-1813).

The children were Nathan, Henriette (Hinde), Celle Melchior, Gerson, Särche, Süssche, Jachet, Salomon, Lazarus, Jeruchim and Lea.

Lottery collector Joseph Philip Cohen (1737-1829) and his wife Gnendel Simon (1729-1810) resided in the building with the children Samson (1765-) and Sara Levy (1768-).

Moses Melchior obtained full ownership of the trading firm as well as of the house on Gråbrødretorv by buying out Jacobsen's heirs following their father's death in 1793.

On his father's death in 1817, he ceded the property on Gråbrødretorv to his brothers Lazarus (1783-1859), Marcus (1761-1843) and Nathan (1763-1732), and took on the management of Moses & Søn G.

[4] Nathan's widow Bella Melchior bée Jacobstedt (1777-1845) resided on the first floor with her sons Marcus and Johan and a maid.

[5] The third floor was occupied by tailor Frederik Olsen Holm and his wife Johanne Lassen with their three children (aged 2 to 5), a labourer (Stephan Olsen Holm), a building painter (Wilhelm Wölchen), a master shoemaker (Hans Schmidt) and another shoemaker (Wilhelm Schmidt).

[6] CHGJ.Brochmeyer, a restaurateur, resided with his wife Ane Margrethe née Holm and four children in the ground floor apartment.

[7] Anders Petersen Mankdrup, a timber merchant, resided with his wife Sidse Larsdatter, one-year-old daughter and a lodger in the basement.

a master weaver, resided on the first floor with his wife Christiane Dunweber and his niece Botilde Jacobine Rosengaard.

Marius Andreas Holm, a 64-year-old master joiner, resided on the second floor with the 42-year-old Emma Fabritius De Tenguagd.

[11] Gråbrødretorv 7 is a three-winged complex, surrounding three sides of a narrow courtyard, constructed with three storeys over a walk-out basement.

No. 125 seen on a detail from Christian Gedde's map of Frimand's Quarter, 1757.
Moses Melchior
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Gråbrødretorv 7 seen on a detail from one of Berggreen's block plans of Frimand's Quarter, 1886-1888.