Family of Thomae

Name: Levantine Lives, A Historical Atlas of Christian Communities in the Ottoman Holy Land, 1500-1799
Creator: Ottoman Holy Land Christian Communities Project
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.fr

Sainte-Catherine Bethléem, 1640-1645

Eponym: Thomae (first mentioned 1640, 2 generations below) Named after Thomae, a forebear named in his descendants’ acts, with no record page of his own yet.Identity: demonstrated (Explicitly attested by the source.)View the record naming him

2 generations · 3 people · 8 records

Nazarena1643

Jacob1640

Anna1643

1645

✓ Demonstrated≈ Probable? PlausibleNo published level

Members Life and events Sources and method

Members

Family members

3 members, 3 of them with a page

Generation 1

NazarenaIdentity: demonstrated (Explicitly attested by the source.)
spelling in the record: Nazarenam · wife of Jacob, record of 1643 · 5 recordsSee the record
JacobIdentity: demonstrated (Explicitly attested by the source.)
spelling in the record: Jacob filius Thomae · godfather, record of 1640 · 6 recordsSee the record

Generation 2

AnnaIdentity: demonstrated (Explicitly attested by the source.)1645
born 1645 · child, record of 1643 · Saint-Sauveur · 3 recordsSee the recordChild of Jacob, Nazarena

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Life and events

Parishes

Sainte-Catherine Bethléem5 records · 9 mentions
Saint-Sauveur3 records · 5 mentions

Contemporary context

This family is documented in Jerusalem during the attested period of Plague of 1643-1644: friars of the Custody of the Holy Land. This overlap of dates and places is given as context: it establishes no individual impact. See the event

Records per decade

7 dated records, all within the same decade (1640s): the series is counted, not plotted.

Sources and method

Starting point

Probable starting point

The identity of the person opening this family is established as probable, not as demonstrated: the filiations shown depend on it.

JacobLLP-0020

spelling in the record: Jacob filius Thomae

godfather, record of 1640 · See their mention in the 1640 record.

Identity: probable : Starting point (Inferred with high confidence, not attested verbatim.)What this level means

Provenance of the reconstruction

Founding decision and fingerprint, shown here: verifiable, reversible.

Two matched mentions open the lineage, each with its page:

BSC-MAR-1643-i168-04-epoux-11643 · Sainte-Catherine Bethléem
BSC-MAR-1643-i335-04-epoux-11643 · Sainte-Catherine Bethléem

Fingerprint: 8c200fa4What this is

A record counts once even if it names several members (14 mentions).

The generations shown are deduced from the filiations stated in the records, never read as-is from a single source. Each "Child of" link carries its certainty level and links back to the record that establishes it.

What this level means

✓ Demonstrated, attested by a record
≈ Probable, converging evidence
? Plausible, open hypothesis

Thin line, no marker: attested by a record, no confidence published for this pair.

Ottoman Holy Land Christian Communities Project, "Family of Thomae," accessed 17 August 2026, https://levantinelives.org/en/familles/F161/. Version cited: snapshot from 17 August 2026, hash b13bd7cd21c8.

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Reference (Chicago style).

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@misc{levantine_f161,
  title        = {Family of Thomae},
  author       = {{Ottoman Holy Land Christian Communities Project}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {https://levantinelives.org/en/familles/F161/},
  note         = {Snapshot 2026-08-17, hash b13bd7cd21c8, id F161},
  urldate      = {2026-08-17}
}

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