Jacob Ottolangui

1834 - 1894

London, England

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JACOB OTTOLANGUI also known as JOHN LANGLEY was born on the 19 November 1834 in Spitalfields, London, England and died in 1894 in Fitzroy Sth, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Son of MOSES OTTOLANGUI and EMMA BENSABAT. He married FANNY SIMMONS on the 19 August 1857 in Holborn, London, England, daughter of ISAAC SIMMONS and RACHEL SOLOMON. She was born about 1837 in London, England and died in 1917 in Melbourne, Australia.

Note: Jacob was known as 'John Morris Langley'  he arrived in Victoria, Australia in 1864 on the ship 'Yorkshire', at about age of 30, just two years before the arrival of his parents and younger siblings. He arrived with his wife Fanny, sons Maurice (Morris) (5 yrs), Isaac (2 yrs) and George (1 yr).  They appeared to have travelled under the name of Langley. There was also a Joshua Langley (11 yrs) on board. This could have been Jacob's younger brother - for whom there is no record of travel with his parents two years later, but Joshua would have been 16, not 11 in 1864.

Jacob’s arrival in Victoria in 1864 was not his first trip to Australia. I found his China shop in Melbourne was first listed in the directories in 1857 and all his children were born in Australia. I presume he travelled back to London to visit his parents and convince them to come to Australia.

Children of JACOB OTTOLANGUI and FANNY SIMMONS:

MAURICE OTTOLANGUI/LANGLEY, born in 1859 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and died in 1933 at Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Australia.

Note: MAURICE OTTOLANGUI/LANGLEY:

Article From Melbourne Newspaper:

PAWNBROKER KILLED, Shooting in city shop.

Brother detains Suspect.

Search for a second man.

Shot at close range by one of two men who entered his pawnshop in Elizabeth St, near Latrobe St, shortly before 2pm yesterday. Mr Maurice Langley aged 75 years, fell near the doorway and died within a few minutes. One of the men was chased by Mr Harry Langley aged 65 years, Mr Maurice Langley's brother, and captured. The second man was not seen by passers-by. Apparently he mingled with the crowd and escaped. The police are searching for him.

Discussing the shooting, Mr Harry Langley, who has been in ill health for sometime, said last night:- "We were having lunch in the dinning-room behind the shop- my brother, my wife, Mrs Carter who is a sister-in-law and I, when we heard someone in the shop. Maurice went to see who it was and was in the shop for about 4 minutes. We heard no conversation. Then there was a noise of a scuffle and a faint report of a shot. I ran into  the shop and saw my brother tottering. As he fell he pointed to one of two men and said I am shot. There were two men in the doorway of the shop- one a short man, the other a little taller. I sprang at the short man and he fell in the doorway, but before I could seize him he scrambled to his feet and ran along the street toward Latrobe St. I overtook him a few doors along and took him back to the shop, where he was held until a constable arrived. In the meantime the taller man had slipped away in the crowd. I think the two men came into the shop with the intention of holding my brother up and stealing money or jewellery. There was a considerable amount of money on the premises."

The chase and capture of the fugitive was witnessed by Mr Edward F Walker, of Compton St, Reservon, a driver for E A Walker, wholesale confectioner of Victoria St, City, as he was alighting from his motor-van to have lunch, at a cafe'. " I saw a short, shabbily dressed man being chased by an elderly thin man," Mr Walker said. "They had run only about 20 yards, when a man who was coming out of Cassells stood full in the short man's path. The man staggered from the impact, bumped against Cassells window and fell in the doorway of the shop. His pursuer fell on top of him and almost without struggle seized him by the shoulders. As the short man rose Mr Langley seized him and took him back to the pawnshop."

Mr Maurice Langley and his brother had occupied the pawnshop, which is owned by John Zevenboom and Co. brush manufacturers for more than 40 years. He was a bachelor, and frequently visited his weekend home at Selby, where his hobby was gardening.

Extract from The Argus Newspaper

Melbourne Australia

Thursday 26-10-1933.

Other newspaper articles:

Shooting of PAWNBROKER-- Two men remanded.

Argus Newspaper, 18-11-1933 page 21.

PAWNBROKER'S DEATH---Quarrel in shop.

Argus Newspaper,  28-11-1933.

Maurice was never married and no children.

ISAAC OTTOLANGUI/LANGLEY, born on the 8 December 1860 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and died on the 2 June 1942 in Windsor, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.  He married RACHEL MANDELBERG on the 27 April 1892 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She was born in 1858 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and died in 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

GEORGE OTTOLANGUI/LANGLEY, born in 1863 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and died on the 14 April 1948 at his residence, Bellevue Hill, Sydney, NSW, Australia. He married (1) ANN LOUIE RICE in 1888 in Sydney, NSW, Australia. Daughter of ROBERT RICE and KATE UNKNOWN. Ann died in 1900 in Woolahra, Sydney, NSW, Australia. He married (2) RUBY PLOWRIGHT in 1914 at the Great Synagogue, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

EMMA OTTOLANGUI/LANGLEY, born in 1865 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and died in 1950 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She married JOSEPH PERL on the 20 August 1884 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was born in 1859, and died in 1919 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

RACHEL OTTOLANGUI/LANGLEY, born in 1867 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She married JOSEPH MOSS in 1903 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was born in 1867 in Dunedin, New Zealand.

HENRY (HARRY) OTTOLANGUI/LANGLEY, born on the 11 July 1869 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and died on the18 February 1956 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He married MABEL MAY LYNCH in 1924 in Victoria, Australia.  Harry had no children.

AARON (ARTHUR) OTTOLANGUI/LANGLEY, born in 1871 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and died in 1955 in Sydney, NSW, Australia. He married REBECCA DOLLY ZIONS on the 20 March 1901 at the Great Synagogue, (Paddington) Sydney, NSW, Australia. Daughter of HENRY (ZAJAC?) ZIONS and CLARA COHEN.

JOSHUA OTTOLANGUI/LANGLEY, born in 1876 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and died on the 28 June 1884 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 

UNNAMED OTTOLANGUI/LANGLEY, born in 1881 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (regno 2064) and died in 1881, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (11 days old).