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Erna Matja

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  • Name Erna Matja  
    Born , , France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died Saint Petersburg, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4157  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Leonard Herzenberg,   b. Abt 1867, Jelgava (Mitau), Courland, Latvia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1940, Saint Petersburg, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 74 years) 
    Married Bef 1899  of Saint Petersburg, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. George L. or Goga Herzenberg,   b. 22 Feb 1899, Saint Petersburg, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Jan 1973, Monterey, Monterey, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1943  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Website of Peter Bruce Herzenberg of London, England (since relocated to South Africa). Website is no longer functioning as of 7 Aug 2007. Copies of much of his data from the website in my possession. He indicates references by codes, which pertain to the original source and file held in his database, which I have not seen. I have no key to the sources except HL is Leonardo Herzenberg, HG is Gail Herzenberg, PC is probably Piltene Cemetery records, LA is probably Latvian Archives, FA is probably Aleksandrs Feigmanis (Latvian researcher hired by Harold Hodes), and YL is Len Yodaiken (Israeli researcher hired by Harold Hodes); however, he lists the main researchers and their contributions in a lengthy report which I include in full in the notes of the earliest Herzenberg of this database. In regards to this individual:
      Erna Matja, d. in St. Petersburg.

      BIOGRAPHY:
      1. 28 Jul 2007 Http://www.herzenberg.net/leo/htmlrh/Content.html copyrighted by Leo Herzenberg:
      "An meinen Sohn (To my son) Leonhard Herzenberg von (from) Robert Herzenberg. Memoirs written during the 1940's." Translated during the 1990's by Leonardo (Leonhard) Herzenberg. The entire memoir is quite lengthy and included in its entirety in my notes with Joseph Herzenberg, the original known ancestor, in this database. The following is only the portion dealing with this part of the family:
      "...LEO Herzenberg, the eldest son of uncle Abraham, lived in Petersburg as a bank director. His wife Matja was a very fashionable woman, and it was not a good marriage. They had a son, Goga, who was a flyer in the first world war, and then went to the states. I met Leo in Berlin after the war in a fancy hotel, and he also visited me in Hamburg. He was married for a second time, but I did not meet his wife. [46] They had a very pretty daughter who was raised from birth like a princess. Leo had lived in Paris and Switzerland before the second world war, and supposedly things went badly for him at the end."

      BIRTH:
      1. The following census of her son shows her birth in France:
      1930 US: Pacific Grove, Monterey, California, p. 24 of 30, 213 Congress, house 375, family 379:
      Geo. L. Herzenberg, rents, $20, 31, first md. at age 27, Russia, Germany, France, garage machinist, came in 1919, naturalized.
      Florence B., wife, 30, first md. at age 20, UT UT CA.

      2. Birth of Erna estimated to be before 1880 assuming an age of 19 minimum before giving birth to George in the census above.

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/