{geni:about_me} Samuel Strakosch birth, 1827, is in Bučovice Births, Image #31 of 82.
S. Strakosch was in retail in Australia during the 1850s (mentions of him, as S. Strakosch or Sigismond Strakosch, appear in the [
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=strakosch&s=440 Australian digital newspaper archive]. He was involved in a lawsuit against another trader in [
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/5681270?se...ch&searchLimits= May 1959]; was in Insolvents Court in Melbourne, Australia in July 1859, with "several debtsproved"; see [
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/154828940?...ch&searchLimits= ''The Age''] of Melbourne. The [
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/5677327?se...ch&searchLimits= ''Argus''] ofMelbourne, Australia, reported on February 17, 1860 that he Sigismond Strakosch was formally declared insolvent. On March 20, 1860 in [
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/154882513?...ch&searchLimits= ''The Age''], Melbourne, his Estate was referred to as Insolvent; same on July 10, 1863 in [
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/6487206?se...ch&searchLimits= ''The Argus'']. He must have left Australia and returned to Austria, since he had children born in Vienna in the late 1860s and 1870s:
* 1868 Phöbe Anna Strakosch, born July 3, 1868 Num. [
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-2579...=MMGD-23T:1262388537 '''4812'''] and died 1874 in Vienna. Parents were Sigmund Strakosch & Frances geb.Jacobs.
* 1873 Num. [
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-2580...MMGD-2Q7:n1715535216 '''4830'''], Wien: Strakosch, Otto ''Leopold'': Sigismund/Jacobs Frances. Appears to say Butschkowitz
* 1876 Num. [
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-2580...=MMGD-2QZ:1675901346 '''3814'''], Wien: Strakosch, ''Julie'' Luise: Sigismund/Jacobs Frances
Other children included Edgar Strakosch, born in Australia in 1859, whose [
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FMV4-HX1 1889 marriage record] gave his parents' names as Sigismund Strakosch and Frances geb. Jacobs (his 1920 census entry says she was born in England).
Sig[is]mund (who must have been Samuel) Strakosch and Frances Jacobs are not in Brno Marriages, although Samuel's brother Ferdinand Strakosch and wife Marie Jakobs (of Bath, England) are.