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| 5451 | 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: HG016 shows Gabriel md. Ann Fradkin. MARRIAGE: 1. There seems to be a conflict with the information above versus the death information below as to whether he was married or not. Len Yodaiken per his research paper "The Herzenbergs of Piltene and Liepeja Latvia," appears to also be confused indicating three children born to him (Joseph, d. 1941; Jacob, d. 1941, and Frieda Herzenberg, m. ___ Rosenberg); however, these are children better associated with Gabriel's uncle Willie Gabriel Herzenberg who married Sarah Hellman. Mr. Yodaiken does not indicate a wife for Gabriel and he also shows the similarly named children with the uncle. DEATH: 1. Http://www4.yadvashem.org Holocaust database: Willi Hercenberg was born 1912 in Liepaja, Latvia to Max and Sophie Hertzenberg. Prior to WWII he lived on Baderstrasse in Libau, Latvia. Willie perished in the Shoah. He was a shop owner and single. Website has photo of him. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted 18 Feb 1993 by his cousin Tauby Hercenberg Lewis residing at Ezion Gaber 3/7 Jerusalem, 97823. 2. The following accounts are copied from JewishGen.Inc and report the holocaust actions of Libau which affected many Herzenbergs. It was also typical of many of the nearby areas as well: A. Translation of an Excerpt Relating to Libau, From the book published by Mr. Mendel Bobee in Yiddish "With the outbreak of hostilities in the East, Libau was bombarded on 22.6.41 [June 22, 1941]. A very small portion of the local population could flee the next day because the trains were overloaded with the children and families of the officers and civil servants serving in Libau. Before the war the Russians organised "Workers Guards" in which many Jews participated. These Guards were the first to see action. The first attack on the town was repulsed, but in this first action the number of casualties was very high and, as it happened, most of the casualties were Jewish boys. The Germans occupied Libau on 29.6.41 [June 29, 1941]. The radio stations of Koenigsberg, Danzig, and Memel broadcast in Latvian highly inflammatory tirades against the Jews. With the entry of the German Army in Libau the Nazis distributed a pamphlet in Latvian to revenge the acts of "the bloodthirsty Jews who have expelled the good sons of the Latvian People to the USSR" The Latvian military and police forces under the command of the Latvian Generals Dankers and Bengersky joined the German forces and gladly participated in their infamous propaganda. Orders were published to hand over all valuables, radios and other means of communications. The meagre food portions were cut and the infamous "Aizsargi," in their alleged searches for weapons, invaded Jewish homes and robbed, beat up and killed. With the conquest of Libau by the Germans the Jewish population counted 9,000 souls and immediately the systematic extermination started. The first victims were 33 Jewish workers who reported to work the next morning after the occupation. They were killed the same day in the "Rainis Park" in Neu-Libau. Another order was published saying that all Jewish males between the ages of 16-65 had to come every morning to the "Hauptwachplatz" from where they were dispatched to different stations of work, accompanied by beatings and curses. No one was sure he would return home at night, as indeed many did not. The Jews were commanded to dismantle with their own hands the Great Synagogue - "The Chor-Schul" - and to destroy the Sifrei Tora. After the destruction of the building the Latvian Press claimed that the cellars of the Synagogue contained hidden weapons and Latvian property. In these first weeks around 2000 Jews were killed and on the 24th [of] July, 3000 more men were assembled on the "Hauptwachplatz" and after their papers and valuables were taken from them, they were transported to a small fishing port near the Lighthouse at the entrance of the Port. They were all killed then and there. The Jewish population of the smaller surrounding towns like Grobin, Hasenpot, etc. were all killed in their different small towns, and only a few were deported to Libau. The murderers took special satisfaction when they killed on Yom Kippur Day 50 old men and women. After complaints from Latvians living near the Lighthouse about the noise, the executions there were stopped. Soon another order was published saying that Jews were not to leave their homes on the 15th and 16th [of] December. They were then told by Latvians to dress warmly as they were about to be sent to work in distant places. The truth was they did not go far, only 7 kilometres, to Shkeden, and there on the beach another 3000 Jews were massacred. It was later reported that some of the killers could not bear any more the sight of these bestialities and literally went crazy. The German Commissar named Laze heard about these massacres and asked Berlin either to stop these or change the means of exterminations. He argued that the killings were disrupting his plans for the work the Jews were carrying out for the German Army. The laconic reply he received from Berlin was "economic considerations are not to be taken into account in solving that problem." Another 375 Jews were killed on 12.2.42 [February 12, 1942] and by the end of June 1942 the Ghetto of Libau was founded. On the 1st of July the Ghetto was entirely cut off from the remaining population, and in the Ghetto, 816 people including 175 males were settled. Eleven houses were prepared for the inmates, and the preparation of the buildings, etc. was made by Jews especially selected for their good physical condition. In spite of overcrowding in the Ghetto houses, the inmates led an orderly life which was mostly due to the devotion of Mr. Israelit, a senior Jewish functionary in the town, who was assisted by Mr. Kagansky, the lawyer. Life as such in the Ghetto, with a small synagogue, a library and a small ambulatory clinic was not too difficult. The German Commander named Kretscher was rather an exception between the thousands of German officers, and treated the Jews relatively humanely. The Ghetto existed 18 months and was dismantled on the 18th of October 1943, when all were packed into railway cattle cars and transported to the "Kaiserwald" Camp near Riga. Of those who were sent there, 360 people were sent to the Auschwitz Crematorium. From the "Kaiserwald" Camp many were also sent to the "Riga-Reichsbahn," "A.E.G." and other camps in and around Riga. With the Russians approaching Riga, most of the Libauers were evacuated to Germany through Danzig and Stutthof, and were dispersed between the camps in Germany itself. When Libau was liberated, 40 living Jews were found out of the 9000 who had lived there until 1941." B. Libau Revisited, by Raya Westermann-Mazin "My first visit to Libau was in 1945, less than 2 months after the end of the war. At that time it was a closed city and the special laissez- passer had been difficult to obtain. I found eleven Jews in town, who had survived by miracles. After having dug up all the details available about the destruction of my family and friends, I listened for long hours to their stories, to the whole chronicle of the past 4 years, enveloped and absorbed in a nightmare in a nightmare for which there were hardly any adequate words in any human language. When I left I was sure that this was for good. In 1961 I came with my family from Odessa to Riga for a summer vacation. It was good to meet old friends, to enjoy the cool Baltic summer, to bathe in the sea and to linger in the white sand of the Riga Bay under the high fir trees. What suddenly made me lose my piece of mind was the last news about Libau: the city had been declared open by the Soviet authorities, with no need for a laissez-passer any more. Even Shkeden, the place in the "Kriegshafen" where the "Aktionen" had taken place, was open territory now; the centres of gravity of the naval port had evidently been moved elsewhere. Human bones had been found in the area of 8 kilometres where the shooting had taken place. The mass graves had been so close to the beach that the sea, penetrating the shallow sands, had washed them up to the surface. The authorities had permitted the Jewish community to take the bones to the cemetery and to bury them. There had been a memorial service, a gravestone had been put up. The plane which took me to Libau in 45 minutes hardly deserved the proud definition of an aircraft. It was a primitive little thing, not soundproofed, which held 15-20 passengers who sat lulled and dulled by the deafening noise of the engine. It had been raining and the plane was bumping up and down from one cloud to the other. Only at noon when we landed the sun broke through. Libau had changed. Sixteen years ago the whole centre and the adjoining streets had been a vast heap of ruins with mutilated skeletons of houses sticking out here and there, the grass sprouting out of the dust which had cemented the stones in the four years of the war. I had felt shaken then but I had not felt stranger. It still had seemed a part of myself - this beautiful, small Baltic town. That it looked victimised, violated and ruined was an integral part of the tragedy which had happened to it and to me. This time, venturing out into the city of my hotel at the Rosenplatz, I felt like a tourist in a strange town. The roses on the square, all shades from white to pink to purple, looked as lush and well groomed on their long stems as before, but now there were some renovated buildings and Russian-style cafeterias around the square. New modern houses were making up a new Weidenstrasse and part of the Kornstrasse which had been destroyed, but these were completely new streets, awakening no memories whatsoever. The names of the streets had been changed, the signs were in Latvian and Russian. There were many uniforms, mostly naval. "You go straight down the Ulichstrasse till the entrance to the "Fisherhafen," I had been advised by old Libau friends. The street had not changed. Although it looked much smaller and narrower than in my memories, the wide branches of the old lime and acorn trees still cast the same deep shadow over the sidewalk, with the breeze rustling lightly in their ample foliage. The entrance to the "Fisherhafen" was changed: some new stone houses had been put up. The plaque I had come to see was on one of the walls. There was an inscription in Latvian and in Russian: "To the victims of Fascism" killed during the German occupation. One cannot put flowers on a wall, so I put mine down on the ground - to my father and to all the others. It was already rather late in the afternoon but there might still have been time to drive down to the cemetery. Only...I didn't feel like it. Nobody I had come to visit here had been quietly put to rest in that peaceful place. Then, all of a sudden, I knew where I really wanted to go. To admit the truth, I have no recollections whatsoever of the 8 or 10 kilometres' drive from Libau to Shkeden on that summer day of 1961. Never during all the coming years would even a single memory surface or a single vision arise of the surrounding landscape. The taxi might have been speeding through a vacuum as far as I was concerned. The last thing which stuck in my memory was hiring it at the stop near the Central Market Place where I had bought a huge bunch of red roses. The driver was a Russian and I had felt relieved that he was not a Latvian. "This is a long drive," he said giving me a strange side-glance as I slipped into the seat beside him. But he didn't ask any questions and we drove in silence. It was a sunny day but I didn't feel it. In my mind I was in snow and cold and winter, back to all I had been told of this last journey - the death march of the Jews of Libau. This way they had gone in buses in December 1941, and in sledges and carts or more primitive vehicles in February 1942. As many times before I tried to imagine what my mother must have thought and felt, or my aunts, or my friends or other people I had known. I don't think I even came close to it, but there was no getting away from it, neither from the stories I had heard, nor from the photographs I had seen in Libau in 1945, fresh from the lab, pictures of people on the snow, stripped naked, in the background the Latvian "aizsargi" with their rifles, the earflaps of their caps down, and the collars of their uniforms up against the biting cold... The driver had stopped the car. "Well...?" he said turning to me, "That's as far as we can go." "Leave your taximeter on," I replied getting out of the car. The vast terrain was unbelievably quiet. One could hear the humming of the insects flitting by in the sun, or a sudden shriek of a seagull from the nearby sea. There was only a very light breeze, the blue surface was scarcely rippled by tiny waves, only far away there were a few white crests. A couple of old wooden watchtowers showed that this had been maritime border region some time ago. The dunes were very low and when I turned away inland from the sea they stopped altogether. The ground was sand everywhere, only a few clusters of sharp grey-greenish sea grass were growing here and there. I saw the obelisk from afar. It was a simple unspectacular four-edged cone of white limestone. When I came up to it, I read the stereotyped inscription in Russian and Latvian dedicated to the "Victims of Fascism" during the war. This time there was a number of the people killed. I don't remember it exactly but it was unbelievably high. There had never been so many Jews in the whole Baltic states. I had, however, heard that Eichmann's twisted bookkeeping had brought the Hungarian Jews to die on this sandy beach, and probably there had also been others. The word "Jew" was mentioned nowhere on any inscription. By now, however, I was used to this sort of Soviet post-mortem discrimination. As I had done the day before, I here, too, put down my roses and resumed my wandering. There were many empty cartridge cases of different calibre's on the ground. I bent down to look at them but I did not pick them up. Then I found the bone. It was an ulna, one of the two bones connecting the wrist with the elbow. It looked very dry and frail, it was small, that of a child probably not older than ten or twelve years. I don't know why I saw a little girl before me, it could as well have been a little boy. I took it back to the obelisk and started to dig a hole in the ground having no other instruments than my bare ten fingers. As I could not find a stone on the sandy ground I put some roses on the tiny grave and rose to my feet. It was a long walk back to the car. If the town had looked much smaller in comparison to what I had remembered, this sandy plain felt vast and endless and larger than life. A few hours later I was on my way back. Strapped to my seat in the same little bee of a plane I looked down at the city vanishing quickly beneath the wings. There was no regret or nostalgia that this was, I knew, the last time I would be seeing it. C. Witness for the Prosecution, by Arnold Engel "I waited a long time for this day. I thought the day would never come. The room in the new hotel - Intercontinental in Hanover - was spacious, warm and well lit. I got up early on this Friday, April 3rd, 1970, shaved and gave a look at my watch. It was 7:30 in the morning. One more hour. One more hour and I will face him. Will I recognise him? Will I be able to look into his eyes? I opened the curtain and looked outside. The new, modern television tower looked yellowish, as the sun was rising, and the light snow from the night before was starting to melt. I had a cup of coffee and hailed a taxi-cab: "Zum Landesgericht bitte." It was a ten minute ride. A police car rushed by blowing its horn, which sounded exactly as the Gestapo horns: pipi-pipi-pipi-pipi, the same sound of the police van which picked up Anna Frank and millions of others. The guard on duty at the court house directed me to the court room. It was early. I and "his" attorney were first. The court session was called for 8:30. Two minutes before, they started to come. One by one, in groups of three or four. Then I saw him. I recognised him at once. How could I have ever thought that I would not remember him? Aged, but still tall, slim, blondish and his trade-mark: cool, murderish, motionless eyes. The court clerk called to order. The judges entered. The jury looked bored. The defenders looked somewhat nervous, the defendant tried to remember if he ever saw me. He whispered something to his lawyer. Everything became quiet in the court room No. 127. Who is this man? It was said that he was once so powerful, that he helped to wipe out a whole town, he killed Children, shot hundreds of old people, young people, men, women, Jews and others all in one day, and managed to wash his bloody hands, have a few drinks and spend that evening joking or dancing, playing games or reading a newspaper - as if nothing had happened that day. After stating my name, address and birthday I was asked by one of the judges: "Mr. Engel, do you recognise any of these gentlemen?" "I do, sir." "Please point out, whom do you recognise?" "Him, Erich Handke." "Please tell us what do you know about Erich Handke?" For twenty-nine years I had dreamed about having the opportunity to testify against this brutal man - Handke. I knew that he was alive somewhere in Germany. One week after Hitler attacked the USSR, the Wehrmacht entered our small town of Libau on the Baltic Sea. Close to 9,000 Jews lived in Libau before the war - out of a population of 56,000. Libau had a rich Jewish community with two noted synagogues, a Jewish trade school, a Yeshiva, a Jewish private school, high school and a Jewish sports stadium, a yacht club and all the usual organisations, including the known sport club "Maccabi"." There were very few real rich Jews, but also very few were poor. Always a shipping and trading city plus its location at the white sandy Baltic seacoast, the city did its share of progress in tourism, in export and in import. Soon after the Wehrmacht, the Gestapo arrived, under leadership of SS-Obersturmfuehrer Dr. Fritz Dietrich, SD-leader Wolfgang Kigler, and Erich Handke who seemed to be in charge of everything, but mainly to solve the Jewish question. The first mass destruction of the Libau Jews took place on the hot summer day of July 27, 1941. The Jews were ordered to appear on the Hauptwachplatz. Known as ever law-abiding, the Jews obeyed the orders. At the square they had to stay at attention. Many were beaten up and had to undergo terrible treatment by the SS-men. Erich Handke was on the warpath. Kicking, shouting and slapping, he ordered hundreds of Jews to be thrown on ready brought trucks. As the number of Jews present diminished, he noticed a tall handsome, grey- haired gentleman, who was none other than Dr. Schwab, a well known local physician. Handke killed him in a brutal manner; this murder was witnessed by the hundreds of Jews who were still standing at attention on the square, where I used to come as a child and watch the fire engines being cleaned. During that day, on a hot July, over three thousand Jews were executed near the lighthouse in the vicinity of the sandy beach, where people used to bathe. Handke did not stop here. He was everywhere. Almost daily he would appear somewhere. Wait for them with their yellow rag, marked Jews marching from work, tired from their slave labour, hungry from not eating - and with a "blitz" he would start to attack. It would take up this and many more journals to describe all the "heroic deeds" of this bloodthirsty murderer. When a day passed by and he did not destroy a human life, he would order one of his Jewish slaves to find some pigeons and bring them to him in a hurry. Once they brought him the pigeons, he would take them, one by one and squeeze their heads off, by placing the birds between the door of his office and pulling the door shut. By 1942, one year later, there were only 800 Jews alive. A Ghetto was created and the 800 moved into it on the 1st of July, 1942. The Libau Ghetto was liquidated on the 6th of October, Yom Kippur day, and the inmates were sent to the Kaiserwald near Riga concentration camp, and when the number dwindled to less than 500 they were sent to the Stutthof death camp near Danzig. Today, there are less than 80 Jews who survived the war, the camps and Handke. Many do not have the strength to testify against the Scharfuehrer (Staff Sergeant) Erich Handke, born 10 November, 1914 (SS #371241) in Lisa, Germany; many do not recall the exact dates, locations or even if Dr. Schwab was attacked at the Firemen's Square or in the women's jail (where the Jews were once more screened before being sent to their death). The German court at Hanover tried their best to have Erich Handke with his eight other cohorts convicted, they have travelled to the USA and Israel, and were permitted to interview survivors now residing in the USSr. But, because of the time elapsed, the reasons I gave before, Erich Handke may be walking the streets a free man at Tailfingen. I do not regret that I went to Hanover, that I once more faced this mass-murderer Handke. I am glad, that I was able to be a witness for the prosecution." | Herzenberg, Willie or Gabriel (I4077)
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| 5452 | 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: HG016 shows Sophie Herzenberg d. bef. WW2. 2. I am uncertain if her maiden name is Herzenberg or not. All the sources cited use Herzenberg as a surname without clarifying whether it is both a maiden and married surname. I suspect it is only a married name. Len Yodaiken per his research paper "The Herzenbergs of Piltene and Liepeja Latvia," 1 Jan 2000, notes her name as Sophie ___. MARRIAGE: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kerry Petersen. DEATH: 1. Http://www4.yadvashem.org Holocaust database: Sofi Herzenberg was born abt 1881 in Latvia. She was married. During WWII she lived at Alleisti 12 in Libau, Latvia. Sofi perished 3 Oct 1941 in the Shoah at the age of 60. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted 12 Jul 1957 by a fellow citizen in Israel, Bentzion Kolman. | Sophie (I4076)
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| 5453 | 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: HG016 shows Klara (Kayla) (Clara-Keila) b. 1911, d. Dec 1941. DEATH: 1. Http://www4.yadvashem.org Holocaust database: Klara Hercenberg was born 1911 in Liepaja, Latvia to Yosef Yaacov Hertzenberg and Rakhel Friedberg or Fridberg. He was married to Hinda bat Yisvael ??. Prior to WWII she lived at Brivibas Iela 5 (Alexanderstrasse) in Libau, Latvia. Klara perished in the Shoah. She was a bookkeeper. Website has photo of her. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted 18 Feb 1993 by her sister Tauby Hercenberg Lewis residing at Ezion Gaber 3/7 Jerusalem, 97823. 2. The following accounts are copied from JewishGen.Inc and report the holocaust actions of Libau which affected many Herzenbergs. It was also typical of many of the nearby areas as well: A. Translation of an Excerpt Relating to Libau, From the Book Published by Mr. Mendel Bobee in Yiddish "With the outbreak of hostilities in the East, Libau was bombarded on 22.6.41 [June 22, 1941]. A very small portion of the local population could flee the next day because the trains were overloaded with the children and families of the officers and civil servants serving in Libau. Before the war the Russians organised "Workers Guards" in which many Jews participated. These Guards were the first to see action. The first attack on the town was repulsed, but in this first action the number of casualties was very high and, as it happened, most of the casualties were Jewish boys. The Germans occupied Libau on 29.6.41 [June 29, 1941]. The radio stations of Koenigsberg, Danzig, and Memel broadcast in Latvian highly inflammatory tirades against the Jews. With the entry of the German Army in Libau the Nazis distributed a pamphlet in Latvian to revenge the acts of "the bloodthirsty Jews who have expelled the good sons of the Latvian People to the USSR" The Latvian military and police forces under the command of the Latvian Generals Dankers and Bengersky joined the German forces and gladly participated in their infamous propaganda. Orders were published to hand over all valuables, radios and other means of communications. The meagre food portions were cut and the infamous "Aizsargi," in their alleged searches for weapons, invaded Jewish homes and robbed, beat up and killed. With the conquest of Libau by the Germans the Jewish population counted 9,000 souls and immediately the systematic extermination started. The first victims were 33 Jewish workers who reported to work the next morning after the occupation. They were killed the same day in the "Rainis Park" in Neu-Libau. Another order was published saying that all Jewish males between the ages of 16-65 had to come every morning to the "Hauptwachplatz" from where they were dispatched to different stations of work, accompanied by beatings and curses. No one was sure he would return home at night, as indeed many did not. The Jews were commanded to dismantle with their own hands the Great Synagogue - "The Chor-Schul" - and to destroy the Sifrei Tora. After the destruction of the building the Latvian Press claimed that the cellars of the Synagogue contained hidden weapons and Latvian property. In these first weeks around 2000 Jews were killed and on the 24th [of] July, 3000 more men were assembled on the "Hauptwachplatz" and after their papers and valuables were taken from them, they were transported to a small fishing port near the Lighthouse at the entrance of the Port. They were all killed then and there. The Jewish population of the smaller surrounding towns like Grobin, Hasenpot, etc. were all killed in their different small towns, and only a few were deported to Libau. The murderers took special satisfaction when they killed on Yom Kippur Day 50 old men and women. After complaints from Latvians living near the Lighthouse about the noise, the executions there were stopped. Soon another order was published saying that Jews were not to leave their homes on the 15th and 16th [of] December. They were then told by Latvians to dress warmly as they were about to be sent to work in distant places. The truth was they did not go far, only 7 kilometres, to Shkeden, and there on the beach another 3000 Jews were massacred. It was later reported that some of the killers could not bear any more the sight of these bestialities and literally went crazy. The German Commissar named Laze heard about these massacres and asked Berlin either to stop these or change the means of exterminations. He argued that the killings were disrupting his plans for the work the Jews were carrying out for the German Army. The laconic reply he received from Berlin was "economic considerations are not to be taken into account in solving that problem." Another 375 Jews were killed on 12.2.42 [February 12, 1942] and by the end of June 1942 the Ghetto of Libau was founded. On the 1st of July the Ghetto was entirely cut off from the remaining population, and in the Ghetto, 816 people including 175 males were settled. Eleven houses were prepared for the inmates, and the preparation of the buildings, etc. was made by Jews especially selected for their good physical condition. In spite of overcrowding in the Ghetto houses, the inmates led an orderly life which was mostly due to the devotion of Mr. Israelit, a senior Jewish functionary in the town, who was assisted by Mr. Kagansky, the lawyer. Life as such in the Ghetto, with a small synagogue, a library and a small ambulatory clinic was not too difficult. The German Commander named Kretscher was rather an exception between the thousands of German officers, and treated the Jews relatively humanely. The Ghetto existed 18 months and was dismantled on the 18th of October 1943, when all were packed into railway cattle cars and transported to the "Kaiserwald" Camp near Riga. Of those who were sent there, 360 people were sent to the Auschwitz Crematorium. From the "Kaiserwald" Camp many were also sent to the "Riga-Reichsbahn," "A.E.G." and other camps in and around Riga. With the Russians approaching Riga, most of the Libauers were evacuated to Germany through Danzig and Stutthof, and were dispersed between the camps in Germany itself. When Libau was liberated, 40 living Jews were found out of the 9000 who had lived there until 1941." B. Libau Revisited, by Raya Westermann-Mazin "My first visit to Libau was in 1945, less than 2 months after the end of the war. At that time it was a closed city and the special laissez- passer had been difficult to obtain. I found eleven Jews in town, who had survived by miracles. After having dug up all the details available about the destruction of my family and friends, I listened for long hours to their stories, to the whole chronicle of the past 4 years, enveloped and absorbed in a nightmare in a nightmare for which there were hardly any adequate words in any human language. When I left I was sure that this was for good. In 1961 I came with my family from Odessa to Riga for a summer vacation. It was good to meet old friends, to enjoy the cool Baltic summer, to bathe in the sea and to linger in the white sand of the Riga Bay under the high fir trees. What suddenly made me lose my piece of mind was the last news about Libau: the city had been declared open by the Soviet authorities, with no need for a laissez-passer any more. Even Shkeden, the place in the "Kriegshafen" where the "Aktionen" had taken place, was open territory now; the centres of gravity of the naval port had evidently been moved elsewhere. Human bones had been found in the area of 8 kilometres where the shooting had taken place. The mass graves had been so close to the beach that the sea, penetrating the shallow sands, had washed them up to the surface. The authorities had permitted the Jewish community to take the bones to the cemetery and to bury them. There had been a memorial service, a gravestone had been put up. The plane which took me to Libau in 45 minutes hardly deserved the proud definition of an aircraft. It was a primitive little thing, not soundproofed, which held 15-20 passengers who sat lulled and dulled by the deafening noise of the engine. It had been raining and the plane was bumping up and down from one cloud to the other. Only at noon when we landed the sun broke through. Libau had changed. Sixteen years ago the whole centre and the adjoining streets had been a vast heap of ruins with mutilated skeletons of houses sticking out here and there, the grass sprouting out of the dust which had cemented the stones in the four years of the war. I had felt shaken then but I had not felt stranger. It still had seemed a part of myself - this beautiful, small Baltic town. That it looked victimised, violated and ruined was an integral part of the tragedy which had happened to it and to me. This time, venturing out into the city of my hotel at the Rosenplatz, I felt like a tourist in a strange town. The roses on the square, all shades from white to pink to purple, looked as lush and well groomed on their long stems as before, but now there were some renovated buildings and Russian-style cafeterias around the square. New modern houses were making up a new Weidenstrasse and part of the Kornstrasse which had been destroyed, but these were completely new streets, awakening no memories whatsoever. The names of the streets had been changed, the signs were in Latvian and Russian. There were many uniforms, mostly naval. "You go straight down the Ulichstrasse till the entrance to the "Fisherhafen," I had been advised by old Libau friends. The street had not changed. Although it looked much smaller and narrower than in my memories, the wide branches of the old lime and acorn trees still cast the same deep shadow over the sidewalk, with the breeze rustling lightly in their ample foliage. The entrance to the "Fisherhafen" was changed: some new stone houses had been put up. The plaque I had come to see was on one of the walls. There was an inscription in Latvian and in Russian: "To the victims of Fascism" killed during the German occupation. One cannot put flowers on a wall, so I put mine down on the ground - to my father and to all the others. It was already rather late in the afternoon but there might still have been time to drive down to the cemetery. Only...I didn't feel like it. Nobody I had come to visit here had been quietly put to rest in that peaceful place. Then, all of a sudden, I knew where I really wanted to go. To admit the truth, I have no recollections whatsoever of the 8 or 10 kilometres' drive from Libau to Shkeden on that summer day of 1961. Never during all the coming years would even a single memory surface or a single vision arise of the surrounding landscape. The taxi might have been speeding through a vacuum as far as I was concerned. The last thing which stuck in my memory was hiring it at the stop near the Central Market Place where I had bought a huge bunch of red roses. The driver was a Russian and I had felt relieved that he was not a Latvian. "This is a long drive," he said giving me a strange side-glance as I slipped into the seat beside him. But he didn't ask any questions and we drove in silence. It was a sunny day but I didn't feel it. In my mind I was in snow and cold and winter, back to all I had been told of this last journey - the death march of the Jews of Libau. This way they had gone in buses in December 1941, and in sledges and carts or more primitive vehicles in February 1942. As many times before I tried to imagine what my mother must have thought and felt, or my aunts, or my friends or other people I had known. I don't think I even came close to it, but there was no getting away from it, neither from the stories I had heard, nor from the photographs I had seen in Libau in 1945, fresh from the lab, pictures of people on the snow, stripped naked, in the background the Latvian "aizsargi" with their rifles, the earflaps of their caps down, and the collars of their uniforms up against the biting cold... The driver had stopped the car. "Well...?" he said turning to me, "That's as far as we can go." "Leave your taximeter on," I replied getting out of the car. The vast terrain was unbelievably quiet. One could hear the humming of the insects flitting by in the sun, or a sudden shriek of a seagull from the nearby sea. There was only a very light breeze, the blue surface was scarcely rippled by tiny waves, only far away there were a few white crests. A couple of old wooden watchtowers showed that this had been maritime border region some time ago. The dunes were very low and when I turned away inland from the sea they stopped altogether. The ground was sand everywhere, only a few clusters of sharp grey-greenish sea grass were growing here and there. I saw the obelisk from afar. It was a simple unspectacular four-edged cone of white limestone. When I came up to it, I read the stereotyped inscription in Russian and Latvian dedicated to the "Victims of Fascism" during the war. This time there was a number of the people killed. I don't remember it exactly but it was unbelievably high. There had never been so many Jews in the whole Baltic states. I had, however, heard that Eichmann's twisted bookkeeping had brought the Hungarian Jews to die on this sandy beach, and probably there had also been others. The word "Jew" was mentioned nowhere on any inscription. By now, however, I was used to this sort of Soviet post-mortem discrimination. As I had done the day before, I here, too, put down my roses and resumed my wandering. There were many empty cartridge cases of different calibre's on the ground. I bent down to look at them but I did not pick them up. Then I found the bone. It was an ulna, one of the two bones connecting the wrist with the elbow. It looked very dry and frail, it was small, that of a child probably not older than ten or twelve years. I don't know why I saw a little girl before me, it could as well have been a little boy. I took it back to the obelisk and started to dig a hole in the ground having no other instruments than my bare ten fingers. As I could not find a stone on the sandy ground I put some roses on the tiny grave and rose to my feet. It was a long walk back to the car. If the town had looked much smaller in comparison to what I had remembered, this sandy plain felt vast and endless and larger than life. A few hours later I was on my way back. Strapped to my seat in the same little bee of a plane I looked down at the city vanishing quickly beneath the wings. There was no regret or nostalgia that this was, I knew, the last time I would be seeing it. C. Witness for the Prosecution, by Arnold Engel "I waited a long time for this day. I thought the day would never come. The room in the new hotel - Intercontinental in Hanover - was spacious, warm and well lit. I got up early on this Friday, April 3rd, 1970, shaved and gave a look at my watch. It was 7:30 in the morning. One more hour. One more hour and I will face him. Will I recognise him? Will I be able to look into his eyes? I opened the curtain and looked outside. The new, modern television tower looked yellowish, as the sun was rising, and the light snow from the night before was starting to melt. I had a cup of coffee and hailed a taxi-cab: "Zum Landesgericht bitte." It was a ten minute ride. A police car rushed by blowing its horn, which sounded exactly as the Gestapo horns: pipi-pipi-pipi-pipi, the same sound of the police van which picked up Anna Frank and millions of others. The guard on duty at the court house directed me to the court room. It was early. I and "his" attorney were first. The court session was called for 8:30. Two minutes before, they started to come. One by one, in groups of three or four. Then I saw him. I recognised him at once. How could I have ever thought that I would not remember him? Aged, but still tall, slim, blondish and his trade-mark: cool, murderish, motionless eyes. The court clerk called to order. The judges entered. The jury looked bored. The defenders looked somewhat nervous, the defendant tried to remember if he ever saw me. He whispered something to his lawyer. Everything became quiet in the court room No. 127. Who is this man? It was said that he was once so powerful, that he helped to wipe out a whole town, he killed Children, shot hundreds of old people, young people, men, women, Jews and others all in one day, and managed to wash his bloody hands, have a few drinks and spend that evening joking or dancing, playing games or reading a newspaper - as if nothing had happened that day. After stating my name, address and birthday I was asked by one of the judges: "Mr. Engel, do you recognise any of these gentlemen?" "I do, sir." "Please point out, whom do you recognise?" "Him, Erich Handke." "Please tell us what do you know about Erich Handke?" For twenty-nine years I had dreamed about having the opportunity to testify against this brutal man - Handke. I knew that he was alive somewhere in Germany. One week after Hitler attacked the USSR, the Wehrmacht entered our small town of Libau on the Baltic Sea. Close to 9,000 Jews lived in Libau before the war - out of a population of 56,000. Libau had a rich Jewish community with two noted synagogues, a Jewish trade school, a Yeshiva, a Jewish private school, high school and a Jewish sports stadium, a yacht club and all the usual organisations, including the known sport club "Maccabi"." There were very few real rich Jews, but also very few were poor. Always a shipping and trading city plus its location at the white sandy Baltic seacoast, the city did its share of progress in tourism, in export and in import. Soon after the Wehrmacht, the Gestapo arrived, under leadership of SS-Obersturmfuehrer Dr. Fritz Dietrich, SD-leader Wolfgang Kigler, and Erich Handke who seemed to be in charge of everything, but mainly to solve the Jewish question. The first mass destruction of the Libau Jews took place on the hot summer day of July 27, 1941. The Jews were ordered to appear on the Hauptwachplatz. Known as ever law-abiding, the Jews obeyed the orders. At the square they had to stay at attention. Many were beaten up and had to undergo terrible treatment by the SS-men. Erich Handke was on the warpath. Kicking, shouting and slapping, he ordered hundreds of Jews to be thrown on ready brought trucks. As the number of Jews present diminished, he noticed a tall handsome, grey- haired gentleman, who was none other than Dr. Schwab, a well known local physician. Handke killed him in a brutal manner; this murder was witnessed by the hundreds of Jews who were still standing at attention on the square, where I used to come as a child and watch the fire engines being cleaned. During that day, on a hot July, over three thousand Jews were executed near the lighthouse in the vicinity of the sandy beach, where people used to bathe. Handke did not stop here. He was everywhere. Almost daily he would appear somewhere. Wait for them with their yellow rag, marked Jews marching from work, tired from their slave labour, hungry from not eating - and with a "blitz" he would start to attack. It would take up this and many more journals to describe all the "heroic deeds" of this bloodthirsty murderer. When a day passed by and he did not destroy a human life, he would order one of his Jewish slaves to find some pigeons and bring them to him in a hurry. Once they brought him the pigeons, he would take them, one by one and squeeze their heads off, by placing the birds between the door of his office and pulling the door shut. By 1942, one year later, there were only 800 Jews alive. A Ghetto was created and the 800 moved into it on the 1st of July, 1942. The Libau Ghetto was liquidated on the 6th of October, Yom Kippur day, and the inmates were sent to the Kaiserwald near Riga concentration camp, and when the number dwindled to less than 500 they were sent to the Stutthof death camp near Danzig. Today, there are less than 80 Jews who survived the war, the camps and Handke. Many do not have the strength to testify against the Scharfuehrer (Staff Sergeant) Erich Handke, born 10 November, 1914 (SS #371241) in Lisa, Germany; many do not recall the exact dates, locations or even if Dr. Schwab was attacked at the Firemen's Square or in the women's jail (where the Jews were once more screened before being sent to their death). The German court at Hanover tried their best to have Erich Handke with his eight other cohorts convicted, they have travelled to the USA and Israel, and were permitted to interview survivors now residing in the USSr. But, because of the time elapsed, the reasons I gave before, Erich Handke may be walking the streets a free man at Tailfingen. I do not regret that I went to Hanover, that I once more faced this mass-murderer Handke. I am glad, that I was able to be a witness for the prosecution." PHOTO: 1. I have on file a photo of Lena (Kramer) Herzenberg and her descendants taken circa 1927 from Ron Lapid per his email dated 3 Aug 2010 -Lena (at an advanced age). -Lena's sons (missing Max Mordechai and Edward): -Adolf (Avraham) with no wife but with adult son Leon standing behind Adolf resting a hand on Adolf's shoulder. Leon's name is an error and the son is confirmed by Gail as her father Willy Gabriel. -Willy Gabriel, wife Sarah Hellman, dau. Frieda, sons Eliezer, Joseph, Zvi (Harry). -Joseph Jacov, wife Rachel Freudberg, children Klara, Taube, Nichole, Bernie, Judith; son Willy is missing from photo. -Lena's daughter Sarah Levenstein (seated) and unidentified girl standing behind her with resting an arm on Sarah's shoulder who could be Sarah's daughter Hinda. No husband shown (deceased?) for Sarah. Both seem to be wearing black in the photo (perhaps a sign of mourning?). -One unidentified adult male sitting on Lena's immediate left (Adolphe sitting in same position on opposite side of Lena). By looks, he appears same age as other brothers. Could this be Max Mordechai (without his wife and Children) or even Edward (on a visit back from the US)? | Herzenberg or Hercenberg, Klara or Kayla or Keila (I4075)
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| 5454 | 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: HG016 shows Willy Gabriel b. 7 Sep 1909, d. Dec 1941, md. to Levenstein. DEATH: 1. Http://www4.yadvashem.org Holocaust database: Willy Gabriel Hercenberg was born 7 Sep 1909 in Liepaja, Latvia to Yosef Yaacov Hertzenberg and Rakhel Friedberg or Fridberg. He was married to Hinda bat Yisvael ??. Prior to WWII he lived in Libau, Latvia. Willy perished in the Shoah. He was a mechanic. Website has photo of him. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted 18 Feb 1993 by his sister Tauby Hercenberg Lewis residing at Ezion Gaber 3/7 Jerusalem, 97823. 2. The following accounts are copied from JewishGen.Inc and report the holocaust actions of Libau which affected many Herzenbergs. It was also typical of many of the nearby areas as well: A. Translation of an Excerpt Relating to Libau, From the Book Published by Mr. Mendel Bobee in Yiddish "With the outbreak of hostilities in the East, Libau was bombarded on 22.6.41 [June 22, 1941]. A very small portion of the local population could flee the next day because the trains were overloaded with the children and families of the officers and civil servants serving in Libau. Before the war the Russians organised "Workers Guards" in which many Jews participated. These Guards were the first to see action. The first attack on the town was repulsed, but in this first action the number of casualties was very high and, as it happened, most of the casualties were Jewish boys. The Germans occupied Libau on 29.6.41 [June 29, 1941]. The radio stations of Koenigsberg, Danzig, and Memel broadcast in Latvian highly inflammatory tirades against the Jews. With the entry of the German Army in Libau the Nazis distributed a pamphlet in Latvian to revenge the acts of "the bloodthirsty Jews who have expelled the good sons of the Latvian People to the USSR" The Latvian military and police forces under the command of the Latvian Generals Dankers and Bengersky joined the German forces and gladly participated in their infamous propaganda. Orders were published to hand over all valuables, radios and other means of communications. The meagre food portions were cut and the infamous "Aizsargi," in their alleged searches for weapons, invaded Jewish homes and robbed, beat up and killed. With the conquest of Libau by the Germans the Jewish population counted 9,000 souls and immediately the systematic extermination started. The first victims were 33 Jewish workers who reported to work the next morning after the occupation. They were killed the same day in the "Rainis Park" in Neu-Libau. Another order was published saying that all Jewish males between the ages of 16-65 had to come every morning to the "Hauptwachplatz" from where they were dispatched to different stations of work, accompanied by beatings and curses. No one was sure he would return home at night, as indeed many did not. The Jews were commanded to dismantle with their own hands the Great Synagogue - "The Chor-Schul" - and to destroy the Sifrei Tora. After the destruction of the building the Latvian Press claimed that the cellars of the Synagogue contained hidden weapons and Latvian property. In these first weeks around 2000 Jews were killed and on the 24th [of] July, 3000 more men were assembled on the "Hauptwachplatz" and after their papers and valuables were taken from them, they were transported to a small fishing port near the Lighthouse at the entrance of the Port. They were all killed then and there. The Jewish population of the smaller surrounding towns like Grobin, Hasenpot, etc. were all killed in their different small towns, and only a few were deported to Libau. The murderers took special satisfaction when they killed on Yom Kippur Day 50 old men and women. After complaints from Latvians living near the Lighthouse about the noise, the executions there were stopped. Soon another order was published saying that Jews were not to leave their homes on the 15th and 16th [of] December. They were then told by Latvians to dress warmly as they were about to be sent to work in distant places. The truth was they did not go far, only 7 kilometres, to Shkeden, and there on the beach another 3000 Jews were massacred. It was later reported that some of the killers could not bear any more the sight of these bestialities and literally went crazy. The German Commissar named Laze heard about these massacres and asked Berlin either to stop these or change the means of exterminations. He argued that the killings were disrupting his plans for the work the Jews were carrying out for the German Army. The laconic reply he received from Berlin was "economic considerations are not to be taken into account in solving that problem." Another 375 Jews were killed on 12.2.42 [February 12, 1942] and by the end of June 1942 the Ghetto of Libau was founded. On the 1st of July the Ghetto was entirely cut off from the remaining population, and in the Ghetto, 816 people including 175 males were settled. Eleven houses were prepared for the inmates, and the preparation of the buildings, etc. was made by Jews especially selected for their good physical condition. In spite of overcrowding in the Ghetto houses, the inmates led an orderly life which was mostly due to the devotion of Mr. Israelit, a senior Jewish functionary in the town, who was assisted by Mr. Kagansky, the lawyer. Life as such in the Ghetto, with a small synagogue, a library and a small ambulatory clinic was not too difficult. The German Commander named Kretscher was rather an exception between the thousands of German officers, and treated the Jews relatively humanely. The Ghetto existed 18 months and was dismantled on the 18th of October 1943, when all were packed into railway cattle cars and transported to the "Kaiserwald" Camp near Riga. Of those who were sent there, 360 people were sent to the Auschwitz Crematorium. From the "Kaiserwald" Camp many were also sent to the "Riga-Reichsbahn," "A.E.G." and other camps in and around Riga. With the Russians approaching Riga, most of the Libauers were evacuated to Germany through Danzig and Stutthof, and were dispersed between the camps in Germany itself. When Libau was liberated, 40 living Jews were found out of the 9000 who had lived there until 1941." B. Libau Revisited, by Raya Westermann-Mazin "My first visit to Libau was in 1945, less than 2 months after the end of the war. At that time it was a closed city and the special laissez- passer had been difficult to obtain. I found eleven Jews in town, who had survived by miracles. After having dug up all the details available about the destruction of my family and friends, I listened for long hours to their stories, to the whole chronicle of the past 4 years, enveloped and absorbed in a nightmare in a nightmare for which there were hardly any adequate words in any human language. When I left I was sure that this was for good. In 1961 I came with my family from Odessa to Riga for a summer vacation. It was good to meet old friends, to enjoy the cool Baltic summer, to bathe in the sea and to linger in the white sand of the Riga Bay under the high fir trees. What suddenly made me lose my piece of mind was the last news about Libau: the city had been declared open by the Soviet authorities, with no need for a laissez-passer any more. Even Shkeden, the place in the "Kriegshafen" where the "Aktionen" had taken place, was open territory now; the centres of gravity of the naval port had evidently been moved elsewhere. Human bones had been found in the area of 8 kilometres where the shooting had taken place. The mass graves had been so close to the beach that the sea, penetrating the shallow sands, had washed them up to the surface. The authorities had permitted the Jewish community to take the bones to the cemetery and to bury them. There had been a memorial service, a gravestone had been put up. The plane which took me to Libau in 45 minutes hardly deserved the proud definition of an aircraft. It was a primitive little thing, not soundproofed, which held 15-20 passengers who sat lulled and dulled by the deafening noise of the engine. It had been raining and the plane was bumping up and down from one cloud to the other. Only at noon when we landed the sun broke through. Libau had changed. Sixteen years ago the whole centre and the adjoining streets had been a vast heap of ruins with mutilated skeletons of houses sticking out here and there, the grass sprouting out of the dust which had cemented the stones in the four years of the war. I had felt shaken then but I had not felt stranger. It still had seemed a part of myself - this beautiful, small Baltic town. That it looked victimised, violated and ruined was an integral part of the tragedy which had happened to it and to me. This time, venturing out into the city of my hotel at the Rosenplatz, I felt like a tourist in a strange town. The roses on the square, all shades from white to pink to purple, looked as lush and well groomed on their long stems as before, but now there were some renovated buildings and Russian-style cafeterias around the square. New modern houses were making up a new Weidenstrasse and part of the Kornstrasse which had been destroyed, but these were completely new streets, awakening no memories whatsoever. The names of the streets had been changed, the signs were in Latvian and Russian. There were many uniforms, mostly naval. "You go straight down the Ulichstrasse till the entrance to the "Fisherhafen," I had been advised by old Libau friends. The street had not changed. Although it looked much smaller and narrower than in my memories, the wide branches of the old lime and acorn trees still cast the same deep shadow over the sidewalk, with the breeze rustling lightly in their ample foliage. The entrance to the "Fisherhafen" was changed: some new stone houses had been put up. The plaque I had come to see was on one of the walls. There was an inscription in Latvian and in Russian: "To the victims of Fascism" killed during the German occupation. One cannot put flowers on a wall, so I put mine down on the ground - to my father and to all the others. It was already rather late in the afternoon but there might still have been time to drive down to the cemetery. Only...I didn't feel like it. Nobody I had come to visit here had been quietly put to rest in that peaceful place. Then, all of a sudden, I knew where I really wanted to go. To admit the truth, I have no recollections whatsoever of the 8 or 10 kilometres' drive from Libau to Shkeden on that summer day of 1961. Never during all the coming years would even a single memory surface or a single vision arise of the surrounding landscape. The taxi might have been speeding through a vacuum as far as I was concerned. The last thing which stuck in my memory was hiring it at the stop near the Central Market Place where I had bought a huge bunch of red roses. The driver was a Russian and I had felt relieved that he was not a Latvian. "This is a long drive," he said giving me a strange side-glance as I slipped into the seat beside him. But he didn't ask any questions and we drove in silence. It was a sunny day but I didn't feel it. In my mind I was in snow and cold and winter, back to all I had been told of this last journey - the death march of the Jews of Libau. This way they had gone in buses in December 1941, and in sledges and carts or more primitive vehicles in February 1942. As many times before I tried to imagine what my mother must have thought and felt, or my aunts, or my friends or other people I had known. I don't think I even came close to it, but there was no getting away from it, neither from the stories I had heard, nor from the photographs I had seen in Libau in 1945, fresh from the lab, pictures of people on the snow, stripped naked, in the background the Latvian "aizsargi" with their rifles, the earflaps of their caps down, and the collars of their uniforms up against the biting cold... The driver had stopped the car. "Well...?" he said turning to me, "That's as far as we can go." "Leave your taximeter on," I replied getting out of the car. The vast terrain was unbelievably quiet. One could hear the humming of the insects flitting by in the sun, or a sudden shriek of a seagull from the nearby sea. There was only a very light breeze, the blue surface was scarcely rippled by tiny waves, only far away there were a few white crests. A couple of old wooden watchtowers showed that this had been maritime border region some time ago. The dunes were very low and when I turned away inland from the sea they stopped altogether. The ground was sand everywhere, only a few clusters of sharp grey-greenish sea grass were growing here and there. I saw the obelisk from afar. It was a simple unspectacular four-edged cone of white limestone. When I came up to it, I read the stereotyped inscription in Russian and Latvian dedicated to the "Victims of Fascism" during the war. This time there was a number of the people killed. I don't remember it exactly but it was unbelievably high. There had never been so many Jews in the whole Baltic states. I had, however, heard that Eichmann's twisted bookkeeping had brought the Hungarian Jews to die on this sandy beach, and probably there had also been others. The word "Jew" was mentioned nowhere on any inscription. By now, however, I was used to this sort of Soviet post-mortem discrimination. As I had done the day before, I here, too, put down my roses and resumed my wandering. There were many empty cartridge cases of different calibre's on the ground. I bent down to look at them but I did not pick them up. Then I found the bone. It was an ulna, one of the two bones connecting the wrist with the elbow. It looked very dry and frail, it was small, that of a child probably not older than ten or twelve years. I don't know why I saw a little girl before me, it could as well have been a little boy. I took it back to the obelisk and started to dig a hole in the ground having no other instruments than my bare ten fingers. As I could not find a stone on the sandy ground I put some roses on the tiny grave and rose to my feet. It was a long walk back to the car. If the town had looked much smaller in comparison to what I had remembered, this sandy plain felt vast and endless and larger than life. A few hours later I was on my way back. Strapped to my seat in the same little bee of a plane I looked down at the city vanishing quickly beneath the wings. There was no regret or nostalgia that this was, I knew, the last time I would be seeing it. C. Witness for the Prosecution, by Arnold Engel "I waited a long time for this day. I thought the day would never come. The room in the new hotel - Intercontinental in Hanover - was spacious, warm and well lit. I got up early on this Friday, April 3rd, 1970, shaved and gave a look at my watch. It was 7:30 in the morning. One more hour. One more hour and I will face him. Will I recognise him? Will I be able to look into his eyes? I opened the curtain and looked outside. The new, modern television tower looked yellowish, as the sun was rising, and the light snow from the night before was starting to melt. I had a cup of coffee and hailed a taxi-cab: "Zum Landesgericht bitte." It was a ten minute ride. A police car rushed by blowing its horn, which sounded exactly as the Gestapo horns: pipi-pipi-pipi-pipi, the same sound of the police van which picked up Anna Frank and millions of others. The guard on duty at the court house directed me to the court room. It was early. I and "his" attorney were first. The court session was called for 8:30. Two minutes before, they started to come. One by one, in groups of three or four. Then I saw him. I recognised him at once. How could I have ever thought that I would not remember him? Aged, but still tall, slim, blondish and his trade-mark: cool, murderish, motionless eyes. The court clerk called to order. The judges entered. The jury looked bored. The defenders looked somewhat nervous, the defendant tried to remember if he ever saw me. He whispered something to his lawyer. Everything became quiet in the court room No. 127. Who is this man? It was said that he was once so powerful, that he helped to wipe out a whole town, he killed Children, shot hundreds of old people, young people, men, women, Jews and others all in one day, and managed to wash his bloody hands, have a few drinks and spend that evening joking or dancing, playing games or reading a newspaper - as if nothing had happened that day. After stating my name, address and birthday I was asked by one of the judges: "Mr. Engel, do you recognise any of these gentlemen?" "I do, sir." "Please point out, whom do you recognise?" "Him, Erich Handke." "Please tell us what do you know about Erich Handke?" For twenty-nine years I had dreamed about having the opportunity to testify against this brutal man - Handke. I knew that he was alive somewhere in Germany. One week after Hitler attacked the USSR, the Wehrmacht entered our small town of Libau on the Baltic Sea. Close to 9,000 Jews lived in Libau before the war - out of a population of 56,000. Libau had a rich Jewish community with two noted synagogues, a Jewish trade school, a Yeshiva, a Jewish private school, high school and a Jewish sports stadium, a yacht club and all the usual organisations, including the known sport club "Maccabi"." There were very few real rich Jews, but also very few were poor. Always a shipping and trading city plus its location at the white sandy Baltic seacoast, the city did its share of progress in tourism, in export and in import. Soon after the Wehrmacht, the Gestapo arrived, under leadership of SS-Obersturmfuehrer Dr. Fritz Dietrich, SD-leader Wolfgang Kigler, and Erich Handke who seemed to be in charge of everything, but mainly to solve the Jewish question. The first mass destruction of the Libau Jews took place on the hot summer day of July 27, 1941. The Jews were ordered to appear on the Hauptwachplatz. Known as ever law-abiding, the Jews obeyed the orders. At the square they had to stay at attention. Many were beaten up and had to undergo terrible treatment by the SS-men. Erich Handke was on the warpath. Kicking, shouting and slapping, he ordered hundreds of Jews to be thrown on ready brought trucks. As the number of Jews present diminished, he noticed a tall handsome, grey- haired gentleman, who was none other than Dr. Schwab, a well known local physician. Handke killed him in a brutal manner; this murder was witnessed by the hundreds of Jews who were still standing at attention on the square, where I used to come as a child and watch the fire engines being cleaned. During that day, on a hot July, over three thousand Jews were executed near the lighthouse in the vicinity of the sandy beach, where people used to bathe. Handke did not stop here. He was everywhere. Almost daily he would appear somewhere. Wait for them with their yellow rag, marked Jews marching from work, tired from their slave labour, hungry from not eating - and with a "blitz" he would start to attack. It would take up this and many more journals to describe all the "heroic deeds" of this bloodthirsty murderer. When a day passed by and he did not destroy a human life, he would order one of his Jewish slaves to find some pigeons and bring them to him in a hurry. Once they brought him the pigeons, he would take them, one by one and squeeze their heads off, by placing the birds between the door of his office and pulling the door shut. By 1942, one year later, there were only 800 Jews alive. A Ghetto was created and the 800 moved into it on the 1st of July, 1942. The Libau Ghetto was liquidated on the 6th of October, Yom Kippur day, and the inmates were sent to the Kaiserwald near Riga concentration camp, and when the number dwindled to less than 500 they were sent to the Stutthof death camp near Danzig. Today, there are less than 80 Jews who survived the war, the camps and Handke. Many do not have the strength to testify against the Scharfuehrer (Staff Sergeant) Erich Handke, born 10 November, 1914 (SS #371241) in Lisa, Germany; many do not recall the exact dates, locations or even if Dr. Schwab was attacked at the Firemen's Square or in the women's jail (where the Jews were once more screened before being sent to their death). The German court at Hanover tried their best to have Erich Handke with his eight other cohorts convicted, they have travelled to the USA and Israel, and were permitted to interview survivors now residing in the USSr. But, because of the time elapsed, the reasons I gave before, Erich Handke may be walking the streets a free man at Tailfingen. I do not regret that I went to Hanover, that I once more faced this mass-murderer Handke. I am glad, that I was able to be a witness for the prosecution." | Herzenberg, Willy Gabriel (I4074)
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| 5455 | 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: References Photo and md. to Levenstein. Includes the following note: She appears in a group photo showing the children of Zvi H. with her daughter. She is named as Sarah Herzenberg Levenstein. Her daughter is not named. All the siblings are shown in the central row and if she is not one, why is she there? Is has been suggested that Willy H., who is not in the photo, married Sarah's daughter, his first cousin. 2. Courland (Kurzeme in Latvian, Kurland in German) is the historically distinct area of modern day Latvia bounded by the Baltic Sea to the west, Lithuania to the south, and the Dvina River (now Daugava) to the North. Its historic capital was Mitau (now Jelgava). It had ice-free Baltic ports with commercial and strategic importance. At its height Courland was a prosperous and cultured German-speaking Duchy. Courland was a separate Gubernia (Province) of the Russian Empire from 1797-1918. 50-60% of the Jews living in Riga just north of Courland had family roots in Courland. The names of the various towns have changed now that the area is part of Latvia (new-old as of early 1900s): Aizpute-Hasenpoth Jelgava-Mitau Kuldiga-Goldingen Liepaja-Libau Piltene-Pilten Talsi-Talsen Ventspils-Windau 3. Email dated 22 Jan 2018 from Gilda Kurtzman of Petach Tikva, Israel 1 Yosef Herzenberg + Rebecca Iddelson 2 Tzvi Hirsch Herzenberg b: 1836 in Libau, Latvia, d: 1925 in Libau, Latvia + Lena Kramer b: Abt. 1834 in Libau, Latvia, d: Nov 27, 1929 in Libau, Latvia 3 Adolph HERZENBERG b: Abt. 1870 in Aizpute (Hazenpoth) or Grobin, Courland, Latvia, d: Dec 1941 in Lativa, Holocaust + Lydia RAIVID b: Abt. 1879 in Possibly Telsiai, d: Sep 08, 1926 in Libau, Latvia 4 Leo HERZENBERG b: Jan 04, 1899 in Lativa, d: Mar 06, 1971 in Tel Aviv, Israel + Lucy ??? b: Abt. 1900 in Lithuania, m: Bef. 1927 in Lithuania, d: Aug 01, 1969 in Wiesbaden, Germany 5 Lilli HERZENBERG b: Mar 17, 1928 in Lithuania, d: May 29, 2000 in Wiesbaden, Germany + Julius FARKAS b: Jul 02, 1910 in Frankfurt, Germany, m: Jun 27, 1950 in Tel Aviv, Israel, d: Jun 10, 1996 in Wiesbaden, Germany 6 Daniel Josef FARKAS b: Jul 30, 1956 in Wiesbaden, Germany + Dalia MIZRACHI b: Sep 11, 1957 in Tel Aviv, Israel, m: Aug 25, 1980 in Wiesbaden, Germany 7 Inbal FARKAS b: Feb 26, 1982 in Wiesbaden, Germany + Shmuel COHEN m: Nov 17, 2011 in Haifa, Israel 7 Chaim FARKAS b: Jun 01, 1985 in Holon, Israel + Adva MADANES m: Jun 10, 2016 in Chavat Ronit, Israel 7 Avital FARKAS b: Nov 14, 1991 in Holon, Israel 4 Gabriel William HERZENBERG b: Jul 19, 1900 in Libau, Latvia, d: May 27, 1985 in Chevy Chase, MD + Toba SCHLOSS b: May 17, 1911 in Pennsylvania, m: May 31, 1938 in Washington, DC, d: May 10, 1997 in North Bethesda, MD 5 Berl Jacob HERZENBERG b: May 07, 1942 in Washington, DC + Joanne MAFUCCI b: 1940 5 Gail Joanne HERZENBERG b: Apr 26, 1945 in Washington, DC, d: Jan 17, 2013 + Jerrold Leslie ZIMMERMAN b: Jan 04, 1946, m: May 30, 1970 6 Joanna Herzenberg ZIMMERMAN b: Feb 22, 1978 in Richmond, VA + Jonathan Paul LACROIX b: Sep 01, 1962, m: Jul 08, 2005 in Lexington, VA 7 Tova ZIMMERMAN LACROIX b: May 20, 2008 in Virginia 6 Noah Herzenberg ZIMMERMAN b: Sep 28, 1981 in Washington, DC 4 Irving HERZENBERG b: Nov 03, 1903 in Libau, Latvia, d: Apr 27, 1964 in New York City, NY + Janice WILE b: May 15, 1913 in New York, m: Feb 04, 1937 in New York City, NY, d: Nov 07, 1982 in Burlington, VT 5 Linda HERZENBERG b: Jun 21, 1942 in New York + Peter W. SPARKS b: Mar 15, 1942, m: Feb 08, 1964 in Burlington, VT 6 Lauren SPARKS b: Sep 18, 1964 in Burlington, VT. + Timothy E. WRIGHT b: Oct 16, 1963, m: Jun 11, 1995 in Vermont 7 Liam WRIGHT b: Feb 13, 1998 in Concord, NH 7 Garret WRIGHT b: Jul 15, 1999 in Concord, NH 6 Jennifer SPARKS b: Mar 04, 1967 in Burlington, VT. + Ari GOLDSTEIN m: Dec 28, 2002 in Jackson Hall, WY 7 Beatarix GOLDSTEIN b: Feb 27, 2006 in Jackson Hall, WY 5 Carol Joan HERZENBERG b: May 08, 1944 in New York + Jake Simon MEYER 6 Cecelia MEYER b: 1971 6 Danielle Neva MEYER b: Apr 29, 1978 in El Paso County, TX + Andrew Eric GEISHEIMER b: Sep 01, 1977, m: Nov 02, 2009 in Adams, CO 6 Jared Cephas MEYER b: Aug 06, 1980 in El Paso County, TX 3 Edward Herzenberg 3 Max Herzenberg 3 Joseph Jacob Herzenberg 3 Sarah Herzenberg 3 Willy Gabriel Herzenberg" BIRTH: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kenny Petersen. MARRIAGE: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kerry Petersen. PHOTO: 1. I have on file a photo of Lena (Kramer) Herzenberg and her descendants taken circa 1927 from Ron Lapid per his email dated 3 Aug 2010 -Lena (at an advanced age). -Lena's sons (missing Max Mordechai and Edward): -Adolf (Avraham) with no wife but with adult son Leon standing behind Adolf resting a hand on Adolf's shoulder. Leon's name is an error and the son is confirmed by Gail as her father Willy Gabriel. -Willy Gabriel, wife Sarah Hellman, dau. Frieda, sons Eliezer, Joseph, Zvi (Harry). -Joseph Jacov, wife Rachel Freudberg, children Klara, Taube, Nichole, Bernie, Judith; son Willy is missing from photo. -Lena's daughter Sarah Levenstein (seated) and unidentified girl standing behind her with resting an arm on Sarah's shoulder who could be Sarah's daughter Hinda. No husband shown (deceased?) for Sarah. Both seem to be wearing black in the photo (perhaps a sign of mourning?). -One unidentified adult male sitting on Lena's immediate left (Adolphe sitting in same position on opposite side of Lena). By looks, he appears same age as other brothers. Could this be Max Mordechai (without his wife and Children) or even Edward (on a visit back from the US)? SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ 2. Interested researcher: Binni Lewis 18 Aug 2007 | Herzenberg, Sarah (I4073)
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| 5456 | 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: Lib Dir HG016 shows Max Mordechai, b. 1872, d. Dec 1941, md. to Sophie. Shot in either the nearby forest of Libau in July or in Bikernicks Forest in Riga, Latvia, Dec. 1941. 2. Email dated 22 Jan 2018 from Gilda Kurtzman of Petach Tikva, Israel 1 Yosef Herzenberg + Rebecca Iddelson 2 Tzvi Hirsch Herzenberg b: 1836 in Libau, Latvia, d: 1925 in Libau, Latvia + Lena Kramer b: Abt. 1834 in Libau, Latvia, d: Nov 27, 1929 in Libau, Latvia 3 Adolph HERZENBERG b: Abt. 1870 in Aizpute (Hazenpoth) or Grobin, Courland, Latvia, d: Dec 1941 in Lativa, Holocaust + Lydia RAIVID b: Abt. 1879 in Possibly Telsiai, d: Sep 08, 1926 in Libau, Latvia 4 Leo HERZENBERG b: Jan 04, 1899 in Lativa, d: Mar 06, 1971 in Tel Aviv, Israel + Lucy ??? b: Abt. 1900 in Lithuania, m: Bef. 1927 in Lithuania, d: Aug 01, 1969 in Wiesbaden, Germany 5 Lilli HERZENBERG b: Mar 17, 1928 in Lithuania, d: May 29, 2000 in Wiesbaden, Germany + Julius FARKAS b: Jul 02, 1910 in Frankfurt, Germany, m: Jun 27, 1950 in Tel Aviv, Israel, d: Jun 10, 1996 in Wiesbaden, Germany 6 Daniel Josef FARKAS b: Jul 30, 1956 in Wiesbaden, Germany + Dalia MIZRACHI b: Sep 11, 1957 in Tel Aviv, Israel, m: Aug 25, 1980 in Wiesbaden, Germany 7 Inbal FARKAS b: Feb 26, 1982 in Wiesbaden, Germany + Shmuel COHEN m: Nov 17, 2011 in Haifa, Israel 7 Chaim FARKAS b: Jun 01, 1985 in Holon, Israel + Adva MADANES m: Jun 10, 2016 in Chavat Ronit, Israel 7 Avital FARKAS b: Nov 14, 1991 in Holon, Israel 4 Gabriel William HERZENBERG b: Jul 19, 1900 in Libau, Latvia, d: May 27, 1985 in Chevy Chase, MD + Toba SCHLOSS b: May 17, 1911 in Pennsylvania, m: May 31, 1938 in Washington, DC, d: May 10, 1997 in North Bethesda, MD 5 Berl Jacob HERZENBERG b: May 07, 1942 in Washington, DC + Joanne MAFUCCI b: 1940 5 Gail Joanne HERZENBERG b: Apr 26, 1945 in Washington, DC, d: Jan 17, 2013 + Jerrold Leslie ZIMMERMAN b: Jan 04, 1946, m: May 30, 1970 6 Joanna Herzenberg ZIMMERMAN b: Feb 22, 1978 in Richmond, VA + Jonathan Paul LACROIX b: Sep 01, 1962, m: Jul 08, 2005 in Lexington, VA 7 Tova ZIMMERMAN LACROIX b: May 20, 2008 in Virginia 6 Noah Herzenberg ZIMMERMAN b: Sep 28, 1981 in Washington, DC 4 Irving HERZENBERG b: Nov 03, 1903 in Libau, Latvia, d: Apr 27, 1964 in New York City, NY + Janice WILE b: May 15, 1913 in New York, m: Feb 04, 1937 in New York City, NY, d: Nov 07, 1982 in Burlington, VT 5 Linda HERZENBERG b: Jun 21, 1942 in New York + Peter W. SPARKS b: Mar 15, 1942, m: Feb 08, 1964 in Burlington, VT 6 Lauren SPARKS b: Sep 18, 1964 in Burlington, VT. + Timothy E. WRIGHT b: Oct 16, 1963, m: Jun 11, 1995 in Vermont 7 Liam WRIGHT b: Feb 13, 1998 in Concord, NH 7 Garret WRIGHT b: Jul 15, 1999 in Concord, NH 6 Jennifer SPARKS b: Mar 04, 1967 in Burlington, VT. + Ari GOLDSTEIN m: Dec 28, 2002 in Jackson Hall, WY 7 Beatarix GOLDSTEIN b: Feb 27, 2006 in Jackson Hall, WY 5 Carol Joan HERZENBERG b: May 08, 1944 in New York + Jake Simon MEYER 6 Cecelia MEYER b: 1971 6 Danielle Neva MEYER b: Apr 29, 1978 in El Paso County, TX + Andrew Eric GEISHEIMER b: Sep 01, 1977, m: Nov 02, 2009 in Adams, CO 6 Jared Cephas MEYER b: Aug 06, 1980 in El Paso County, TX 3 Edward Herzenberg 3 Max Herzenberg 3 Joseph Jacob Herzenberg 3 Sarah Herzenberg 3 Willy Gabriel Herzenberg" BIRTH: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kenny Petersen. MARRIAGE: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kerry Petersen. DEATH: 1. Http://www4.yadvashem.org Holocaust database: Max Hertzenberg was born abt 1872 in Hasenpoth, Latvia in to Tzvi Hertzenberg and Lena nee Kramer. Prior to WWII he lived on Baderstrasse in Libau, Latvia where he had a hardware store. His wife was Sophie and she died earlier. Max perished in the Shoah. Website has photo of him. Middle name of Mordekhai. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted 8 Mar 1993 by his niece Tauby Hercenberg Lewis residing at Ezion Gaber 3/7 Jerusalem, 97823. 2. The following accounts are copied from JewishGen.Inc and report the holocaust actions of Libau which affected many Herzenbergs. It was also typical of many of the nearby areas as well: A. Translation of an Excerpt Relating to Libau, From the Book Published by Mr. Mendel Bobee in Yiddish "With the outbreak of hostilities in the East, Libau was bombarded on 22.6.41 [June 22, 1941]. A very small portion of the local population could flee the next day because the trains were overloaded with the children and families of the officers and civil servants serving in Libau. Before the war the Russians organised "Workers Guards" in which many Jews participated. These Guards were the first to see action. The first attack on the town was repulsed, but in this first action the number of casualties was very high and, as it happened, most of the casualties were Jewish boys. The Germans occupied Libau on 29.6.41 [June 29, 1941]. The radio stations of Koenigsberg, Danzig, and Memel broadcast in Latvian highly inflammatory tirades against the Jews. With the entry of the German Army in Libau the Nazis distributed a pamphlet in Latvian to revenge the acts of "the bloodthirsty Jews who have expelled the good sons of the Latvian People to the USSR" The Latvian military and police forces under the command of the Latvian Generals Dankers and Bengersky joined the German forces and gladly participated in their infamous propaganda. Orders were published to hand over all valuables, radios and other means of communications. The meagre food portions were cut and the infamous "Aizsargi," in their alleged searches for weapons, invaded Jewish homes and robbed, beat up and killed. With the conquest of Libau by the Germans the Jewish population counted 9,000 souls and immediately the systematic extermination started. The first victims were 33 Jewish workers who reported to work the next morning after the occupation. They were killed the same day in the "Rainis Park" in Neu-Libau. Another order was published saying that all Jewish males between the ages of 16-65 had to come every morning to the "Hauptwachplatz" from where they were dispatched to different stations of work, accompanied by beatings and curses. No one was sure he would return home at night, as indeed many did not. The Jews were commanded to dismantle with their own hands the Great Synagogue - "The Chor-Schul" - and to destroy the Sifrei Tora. After the destruction of the building the Latvian Press claimed that the cellars of the Synagogue contained hidden weapons and Latvian property. In these first weeks around 2000 Jews were killed and on the 24th [of] July, 3000 more men were assembled on the "Hauptwachplatz" and after their papers and valuables were taken from them, they were transported to a small fishing port near the Lighthouse at the entrance of the Port. They were all killed then and there. The Jewish population of the smaller surrounding towns like Grobin, Hasenpot, etc. were all killed in their different small towns, and only a few were deported to Libau. The murderers took special satisfaction when they killed on Yom Kippur Day 50 old men and women. After complaints from Latvians living near the Lighthouse about the noise, the executions there were stopped. Soon another order was published saying that Jews were not to leave their homes on the 15th and 16th [of] December. They were then told by Latvians to dress warmly as they were about to be sent to work in distant places. The truth was they did not go far, only 7 kilometres, to Shkeden, and there on the beach another 3000 Jews were massacred. It was later reported that some of the killers could not bear any more the sight of these bestialities and literally went crazy. The German Commissar named Laze heard about these massacres and asked Berlin either to stop these or change the means of exterminations. He argued that the killings were disrupting his plans for the work the Jews were carrying out for the German Army. The laconic reply he received from Berlin was "economic considerations are not to be taken into account in solving that problem." Another 375 Jews were killed on 12.2.42 [February 12, 1942] and by the end of June 1942 the Ghetto of Libau was founded. On the 1st of July the Ghetto was entirely cut off from the remaining population, and in the Ghetto, 816 people including 175 males were settled. Eleven houses were prepared for the inmates, and the preparation of the buildings, etc. was made by Jews especially selected for their good physical condition. In spite of overcrowding in the Ghetto houses, the inmates led an orderly life which was mostly due to the devotion of Mr. Israelit, a senior Jewish functionary in the town, who was assisted by Mr. Kagansky, the lawyer. Life as such in the Ghetto, with a small synagogue, a library and a small ambulatory clinic was not too difficult. The German Commander named Kretscher was rather an exception between the thousands of German officers, and treated the Jews relatively humanely. The Ghetto existed 18 months and was dismantled on the 18th of October 1943, when all were packed into railway cattle cars and transported to the "Kaiserwald" Camp near Riga. Of those who were sent there, 360 people were sent to the Auschwitz Crematorium. From the "Kaiserwald" Camp many were also sent to the "Riga-Reichsbahn," "A.E.G." and other camps in and around Riga. With the Russians approaching Riga, most of the Libauers were evacuated to Germany through Danzig and Stutthof, and were dispersed between the camps in Germany itself. When Libau was liberated, 40 living Jews were found out of the 9000 who had lived there until 1941." B. Libau Revisited, by Raya Westermann-Mazin "My first visit to Libau was in 1945, less than 2 months after the end of the war. At that time it was a closed city and the special laissez- passer had been difficult to obtain. I found eleven Jews in town, who had survived by miracles. After having dug up all the details available about the destruction of my family and friends, I listened for long hours to their stories, to the whole chronicle of the past 4 years, enveloped and absorbed in a nightmare in a nightmare for which there were hardly any adequate words in any human language. When I left I was sure that this was for good. In 1961 I came with my family from Odessa to Riga for a summer vacation. It was good to meet old friends, to enjoy the cool Baltic summer, to bathe in the sea and to linger in the white sand of the Riga Bay under the high fir trees. What suddenly made me lose my piece of mind was the last news about Libau: the city had been declared open by the Soviet authorities, with no need for a laissez-passer any more. Even Shkeden, the place in the "Kriegshafen" where the "Aktionen" had taken place, was open territory now; the centres of gravity of the naval port had evidently been moved elsewhere. Human bones had been found in the area of 8 kilometres where the shooting had taken place. The mass graves had been so close to the beach that the sea, penetrating the shallow sands, had washed them up to the surface. The authorities had permitted the Jewish community to take the bones to the cemetery and to bury them. There had been a memorial service, a gravestone had been put up. The plane which took me to Libau in 45 minutes hardly deserved the proud definition of an aircraft. It was a primitive little thing, not soundproofed, which held 15-20 passengers who sat lulled and dulled by the deafening noise of the engine. It had been raining and the plane was bumping up and down from one cloud to the other. Only at noon when we landed the sun broke through. Libau had changed. Sixteen years ago the whole centre and the adjoining streets had been a vast heap of ruins with mutilated skeletons of houses sticking out here and there, the grass sprouting out of the dust which had cemented the stones in the four years of the war. I had felt shaken then but I had not felt stranger. It still had seemed a part of myself - this beautiful, small Baltic town. That it looked victimised, violated and ruined was an integral part of the tragedy which had happened to it and to me. This time, venturing out into the city of my hotel at the Rosenplatz, I felt like a tourist in a strange town. The roses on the square, all shades from white to pink to purple, looked as lush and well groomed on their long stems as before, but now there were some renovated buildings and Russian-style cafeterias around the square. New modern houses were making up a new Weidenstrasse and part of the Kornstrasse which had been destroyed, but these were completely new streets, awakening no memories whatsoever. The names of the streets had been changed, the signs were in Latvian and Russian. There were many uniforms, mostly naval. "You go straight down the Ulichstrasse till the entrance to the "Fisherhafen," I had been advised by old Libau friends. The street had not changed. Although it looked much smaller and narrower than in my memories, the wide branches of the old lime and acorn trees still cast the same deep shadow over the sidewalk, with the breeze rustling lightly in their ample foliage. The entrance to the "Fisherhafen" was changed: some new stone houses had been put up. The plaque I had come to see was on one of the walls. There was an inscription in Latvian and in Russian: "To the victims of Fascism" killed during the German occupation. One cannot put flowers on a wall, so I put mine down on the ground - to my father and to all the others. It was already rather late in the afternoon but there might still have been time to drive down to the cemetery. Only...I didn't feel like it. Nobody I had come to visit here had been quietly put to rest in that peaceful place. Then, all of a sudden, I knew where I really wanted to go. To admit the truth, I have no recollections whatsoever of the 8 or 10 kilometres' drive from Libau to Shkeden on that summer day of 1961. Never during all the coming years would even a single memory surface or a single vision arise of the surrounding landscape. The taxi might have been speeding through a vacuum as far as I was concerned. The last thing which stuck in my memory was hiring it at the stop near the Central Market Place where I had bought a huge bunch of red roses. The driver was a Russian and I had felt relieved that he was not a Latvian. "This is a long drive," he said giving me a strange side-glance as I slipped into the seat beside him. But he didn't ask any questions and we drove in silence. It was a sunny day but I didn't feel it. In my mind I was in snow and cold and winter, back to all I had been told of this last journey - the death march of the Jews of Libau. This way they had gone in buses in December 1941, and in sledges and carts or more primitive vehicles in February 1942. As many times before I tried to imagine what my mother must have thought and felt, or my aunts, or my friends or other people I had known. I don't think I even came close to it, but there was no getting away from it, neither from the stories I had heard, nor from the photographs I had seen in Libau in 1945, fresh from the lab, pictures of people on the snow, stripped naked, in the background the Latvian "aizsargi" with their rifles, the earflaps of their caps down, and the collars of their uniforms up against the biting cold... The driver had stopped the car. "Well...?" he said turning to me, "That's as far as we can go." "Leave your taximeter on," I replied getting out of the car. The vast terrain was unbelievably quiet. One could hear the humming of the insects flitting by in the sun, or a sudden shriek of a seagull from the nearby sea. There was only a very light breeze, the blue surface was scarcely rippled by tiny waves, only far away there were a few white crests. A couple of old wooden watchtowers showed that this had been maritime border region some time ago. The dunes were very low and when I turned away inland from the sea they stopped altogether. The ground was sand everywhere, only a few clusters of sharp grey-greenish sea grass were growing here and there. I saw the obelisk from afar. It was a simple unspectacular four-edged cone of white limestone. When I came up to it, I read the stereotyped inscription in Russian and Latvian dedicated to the "Victims of Fascism" during the war. This time there was a number of the people killed. I don't remember it exactly but it was unbelievably high. There had never been so many Jews in the whole Baltic states. I had, however, heard that Eichmann's twisted bookkeeping had brought the Hungarian Jews to die on this sandy beach, and probably there had also been others. The word "Jew" was mentioned nowhere on any inscription. By now, however, I was used to this sort of Soviet post-mortem discrimination. As I had done the day before, I here, too, put down my roses and resumed my wandering. There were many empty cartridge cases of different calibre's on the ground. I bent down to look at them but I did not pick them up. Then I found the bone. It was an ulna, one of the two bones connecting the wrist with the elbow. It looked very dry and frail, it was small, that of a child probably not older than ten or twelve years. I don't know why I saw a little girl before me, it could as well have been a little boy. I took it back to the obelisk and started to dig a hole in the ground having no other instruments than my bare ten fingers. As I could not find a stone on the sandy ground I put some roses on the tiny grave and rose to my feet. It was a long walk back to the car. If the town had looked much smaller in comparison to what I had remembered, this sandy plain felt vast and endless and larger than life. A few hours later I was on my way back. Strapped to my seat in the same little bee of a plane I looked down at the city vanishing quickly beneath the wings. There was no regret or nostalgia that this was, I knew, the last time I would be seeing it. C. Witness for the Prosecution, by Arnold Engel "I waited a long time for this day. I thought the day would never come. The room in the new hotel - Intercontinental in Hanover - was spacious, warm and well lit. I got up early on this Friday, April 3rd, 1970, shaved and gave a look at my watch. It was 7:30 in the morning. One more hour. One more hour and I will face him. Will I recognise him? Will I be able to look into his eyes? I opened the curtain and looked outside. The new, modern television tower looked yellowish, as the sun was rising, and the light snow from the night before was starting to melt. I had a cup of coffee and hailed a taxi-cab: "Zum Landesgericht bitte." It was a ten minute ride. A police car rushed by blowing its horn, which sounded exactly as the Gestapo horns: pipi-pipi-pipi-pipi, the same sound of the police van which picked up Anna Frank and millions of others. The guard on duty at the court house directed me to the court room. It was early. I and "his" attorney were first. The court session was called for 8:30. Two minutes before, they started to come. One by one, in groups of three or four. Then I saw him. I recognised him at once. How could I have ever thought that I would not remember him? Aged, but still tall, slim, blondish and his trade-mark: cool, murderish, motionless eyes. The court clerk called to order. The judges entered. The jury looked bored. The defenders looked somewhat nervous, the defendant tried to remember if he ever saw me. He whispered something to his lawyer. Everything became quiet in the court room No. 127. Who is this man? It was said that he was once so powerful, that he helped to wipe out a whole town, he killed Children, shot hundreds of old people, young people, men, women, Jews and others all in one day, and managed to wash his bloody hands, have a few drinks and spend that evening joking or dancing, playing games or reading a newspaper - as if nothing had happened that day. After stating my name, address and birthday I was asked by one of the judges: "Mr. Engel, do you recognise any of these gentlemen?" "I do, sir." "Please point out, whom do you recognise?" "Him, Erich Handke." "Please tell us what do you know about Erich Handke?" For twenty-nine years I had dreamed about having the opportunity to testify against this brutal man - Handke. I knew that he was alive somewhere in Germany. One week after Hitler attacked the USSR, the Wehrmacht entered our small town of Libau on the Baltic Sea. Close to 9,000 Jews lived in Libau before the war - out of a population of 56,000. Libau had a rich Jewish community with two noted synagogues, a Jewish trade school, a Yeshiva, a Jewish private school, high school and a Jewish sports stadium, a yacht club and all the usual organisations, including the known sport club "Maccabi"." There were very few real rich Jews, but also very few were poor. Always a shipping and trading city plus its location at the white sandy Baltic seacoast, the city did its share of progress in tourism, in export and in import. Soon after the Wehrmacht, the Gestapo arrived, under leadership of SS-Obersturmfuehrer Dr. Fritz Dietrich, SD-leader Wolfgang Kigler, and Erich Handke who seemed to be in charge of everything, but mainly to solve the Jewish question. The first mass destruction of the Libau Jews took place on the hot summer day of July 27, 1941. The Jews were ordered to appear on the Hauptwachplatz. Known as ever law-abiding, the Jews obeyed the orders. At the square they had to stay at attention. Many were beaten up and had to undergo terrible treatment by the SS-men. Erich Handke was on the warpath. Kicking, shouting and slapping, he ordered hundreds of Jews to be thrown on ready brought trucks. As the number of Jews present diminished, he noticed a tall handsome, grey- haired gentleman, who was none other than Dr. Schwab, a well known local physician. Handke killed him in a brutal manner; this murder was witnessed by the hundreds of Jews who were still standing at attention on the square, where I used to come as a child and watch the fire engines being cleaned. During that day, on a hot July, over three thousand Jews were executed near the lighthouse in the vicinity of the sandy beach, where people used to bathe. Handke did not stop here. He was everywhere. Almost daily he would appear somewhere. Wait for them with their yellow rag, marked Jews marching from work, tired from their slave labour, hungry from not eating - and with a "blitz" he would start to attack. It would take up this and many more journals to describe all the "heroic deeds" of this bloodthirsty murderer. When a day passed by and he did not destroy a human life, he would order one of his Jewish slaves to find some pigeons and bring them to him in a hurry. Once they brought him the pigeons, he would take them, one by one and squeeze their heads off, by placing the birds between the door of his office and pulling the door shut. By 1942, one year later, there were only 800 Jews alive. A Ghetto was created and the 800 moved into it on the 1st of July, 1942. The Libau Ghetto was liquidated on the 6th of October, Yom Kippur day, and the inmates were sent to the Kaiserwald near Riga concentration camp, and when the number dwindled to less than 500 they were sent to the Stutthof death camp near Danzig. Today, there are less than 80 Jews who survived the war, the camps and Handke. Many do not have the strength to testify against the Scharfuehrer (Staff Sergeant) Erich Handke, born 10 November, 1914 (SS #371241) in Lisa, Germany; many do not recall the exact dates, locations or even if Dr. Schwab was attacked at the Firemen's Square or in the women's jail (where the Jews were once more screened before being sent to their death). The German court at Hanover tried their best to have Erich Handke with his eight other cohorts convicted, they have travelled to the USA and Israel, and were permitted to interview survivors now residing in the USSr. But, because of the time elapsed, the reasons I gave before, Erich Handke may be walking the streets a free man at Tailfingen. I do not regret that I went to Hanover, that I once more faced this mass-murderer Handke. I am glad, that I was able to be a witness for the prosecution." SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ 2. Interested researcher: Binni Lewis 18 Aug 2007 | Herzenberg, Max Mordechai (I4069)
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| 5457 | 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: Name variations: Adolphe, Adolph Abraham HG016 shows b. abt 1870, d. Dec 1941, md. to Reyvid. "Shot in either the nearby forest of Libau, in July or in Bikemicks Forest, Riga, Latvia in Dec. 1941." 2. Courland (Kurzeme in Latvian, Kurland in German) is the historically distinct area of modern day Latvia bounded by the Baltic Sea to the west, Lithuania to the south, and the Dvina River (now Daugava) to the North. Its historic capital was Mitau (now Jelgava). It had ice-free Baltic ports with commercial and strategic importance. At its height Courland was a prosperous and cultured German-speaking Duchy. Courland was a separate Gubernia (Province) of the Russian Empire from 1797-1918. 50-60% of the Jews living in Riga just north of Courland had family roots in Courland. The names of the various towns have changed now that the area is part of Latvia (new-old as of early 1900s): Aizpute-Hasenpoth Jelgava-Mitau Kuldiga-Goldingen Liepaja-Libau Piltene-Pilten Talsi-Talsen Ventspils-Windau 3. 22 Aug 2009 Ron Lapid beyond the descendants of Adolph and Lydia. I received a subsequent email from Ron dated 24 Aug 2009 stating: "My family ties to the Herzenbergs only go back to Adolphe (Avraham Elchanan) Herzenberg (abt. 1879 - Dec. 1941) who married Lydia/Liba Reyvid (abt 1879-abt 1925). Lydia was the siter of my grandmother Grune Reuvid. The surname has many spelling variations, the main one being "Raivid"." Ron Lapid 8/7 Halamed Heh St. Ra'anana 43341, ISRAEL Phone & Fax +972-9-774-5407 Cell +972-52-3566-155 Skype: ronlapid1155 lapid.ron@gmail.com 4. Email dated 22 Jan 2018 from Gilda Kurtzman of Petach Tikva, Israel 1 Yosef Herzenberg + Rebecca Iddelson 2 Tzvi Hirsch Herzenberg b: 1836 in Libau, Latvia, d: 1925 in Libau, Latvia + Lena Kramer b: Abt. 1834 in Libau, Latvia, d: Nov 27, 1929 in Libau, Latvia 3 Adolph HERZENBERG b: Abt. 1870 in Aizpute (Hazenpoth) or Grobin, Courland, Latvia, d: Dec 1941 in Lativa, Holocaust + Lydia RAIVID b: Abt. 1879 in Possibly Telsiai, d: Sep 08, 1926 in Libau, Latvia 4 Leo HERZENBERG b: Jan 04, 1899 in Lativa, d: Mar 06, 1971 in Tel Aviv, Israel + Lucy ??? b: Abt. 1900 in Lithuania, m: Bef. 1927 in Lithuania, d: Aug 01, 1969 in Wiesbaden, Germany 5 Lilli HERZENBERG b: Mar 17, 1928 in Lithuania, d: May 29, 2000 in Wiesbaden, Germany + Julius FARKAS b: Jul 02, 1910 in Frankfurt, Germany, m: Jun 27, 1950 in Tel Aviv, Israel, d: Jun 10, 1996 in Wiesbaden, Germany 6 Daniel Josef FARKAS b: Jul 30, 1956 in Wiesbaden, Germany + Dalia MIZRACHI b: Sep 11, 1957 in Tel Aviv, Israel, m: Aug 25, 1980 in Wiesbaden, Germany 7 Inbal FARKAS b: Feb 26, 1982 in Wiesbaden, Germany + Shmuel COHEN m: Nov 17, 2011 in Haifa, Israel 7 Chaim FARKAS b: Jun 01, 1985 in Holon, Israel + Adva MADANES m: Jun 10, 2016 in Chavat Ronit, Israel 7 Avital FARKAS b: Nov 14, 1991 in Holon, Israel 4 Gabriel William HERZENBERG b: Jul 19, 1900 in Libau, Latvia, d: May 27, 1985 in Chevy Chase, MD + Toba SCHLOSS b: May 17, 1911 in Pennsylvania, m: May 31, 1938 in Washington, DC, d: May 10, 1997 in North Bethesda, MD 5 Berl Jacob HERZENBERG b: May 07, 1942 in Washington, DC + Joanne MAFUCCI b: 1940 5 Gail Joanne HERZENBERG b: Apr 26, 1945 in Washington, DC, d: Jan 17, 2013 + Jerrold Leslie ZIMMERMAN b: Jan 04, 1946, m: May 30, 1970 6 Joanna Herzenberg ZIMMERMAN b: Feb 22, 1978 in Richmond, VA + Jonathan Paul LACROIX b: Sep 01, 1962, m: Jul 08, 2005 in Lexington, VA 7 Tova ZIMMERMAN LACROIX b: May 20, 2008 in Virginia 6 Noah Herzenberg ZIMMERMAN b: Sep 28, 1981 in Washington, DC 4 Irving HERZENBERG b: Nov 03, 1903 in Libau, Latvia, d: Apr 27, 1964 in New York City, NY + Janice WILE b: May 15, 1913 in New York, m: Feb 04, 1937 in New York City, NY, d: Nov 07, 1982 in Burlington, VT 5 Linda HERZENBERG b: Jun 21, 1942 in New York + Peter W. SPARKS b: Mar 15, 1942, m: Feb 08, 1964 in Burlington, VT 6 Lauren SPARKS b: Sep 18, 1964 in Burlington, VT. + Timothy E. WRIGHT b: Oct 16, 1963, m: Jun 11, 1995 in Vermont 7 Liam WRIGHT b: Feb 13, 1998 in Concord, NH 7 Garret WRIGHT b: Jul 15, 1999 in Concord, NH 6 Jennifer SPARKS b: Mar 04, 1967 in Burlington, VT. + Ari GOLDSTEIN m: Dec 28, 2002 in Jackson Hall, WY 7 Beatarix GOLDSTEIN b: Feb 27, 2006 in Jackson Hall, WY 5 Carol Joan HERZENBERG b: May 08, 1944 in New York + Jake Simon MEYER 6 Cecelia MEYER b: 1971 6 Danielle Neva MEYER b: Apr 29, 1978 in El Paso County, TX + Andrew Eric GEISHEIMER b: Sep 01, 1977, m: Nov 02, 2009 in Adams, CO 6 Jared Cephas MEYER b: Aug 06, 1980 in El Paso County, TX 3 Edward Herzenberg 3 Max Herzenberg 3 Joseph Jacob Herzenberg 3 Sarah Herzenberg 3 Willy Gabriel Herzenberg" DEATH: 1. Http://www4.yadvashem.org Holocaust database: Adolph Hertzenberg was born in Hasenpoth or Grobin, Latvia in abt 1870 to Tzvi and Lena nee Kramer. Prior to WWII he lived in Riga, Latvia. Adolph perished in the Shoah. He was retired. Website has photo of him. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted 8 Mar 1993 by Tauby Hercenberg Lewis residing at Ezion Gaber 3/7 Jerusalem, 97823. She is a niece (her father's brother). 2. The following accounts are copied from JewishGen.Inc and report the holocaust actions of Libau which affected many Herzenbergs. It was also typical of many of the nearby areas as well: A. Translation of an Excerpt Relating to Libau, From the Book Published by Mr. Mendel Bobee in Yiddish "With the outbreak of hostilities in the East, Libau was bombarded on 22.6.41 [June 22, 1941]. A very small portion of the local population could flee the next day because the trains were overloaded with the children and families of the officers and civil servants serving in Libau. Before the war the Russians organised "Workers Guards" in which many Jews participated. These Guards were the first to see action. The first attack on the town was repulsed, but in this first action the number of casualties was very high and, as it happened, most of the casualties were Jewish boys. The Germans occupied Libau on 29.6.41 [June 29, 1941]. The radio stations of Koenigsberg, Danzig, and Memel broadcast in Latvian highly inflammatory tirades against the Jews. With the entry of the German Army in Libau the Nazis distributed a pamphlet in Latvian to revenge the acts of "the bloodthirsty Jews who have expelled the good sons of the Latvian People to the USSR" The Latvian military and police forces under the command of the Latvian Generals Dankers and Bengersky joined the German forces and gladly participated in their infamous propaganda. Orders were published to hand over all valuables, radios and other means of communications. The meagre food portions were cut and the infamous "Aizsargi," in their alleged searches for weapons, invaded Jewish homes and robbed, beat up and killed. With the conquest of Libau by the Germans the Jewish population counted 9,000 souls and immediately the systematic extermination started. The first victims were 33 Jewish workers who reported to work the next morning after the occupation. They were killed the same day in the "Rainis Park" in Neu-Libau. Another order was published saying that all Jewish males between the ages of 16-65 had to come every morning to the "Hauptwachplatz" from where they were dispatched to different stations of work, accompanied by beatings and curses. No one was sure he would return home at night, as indeed many did not. The Jews were commanded to dismantle with their own hands the Great Synagogue - "The Chor-Schul" - and to destroy the Sifrei Tora. After the destruction of the building the Latvian Press claimed that the cellars of the Synagogue contained hidden weapons and Latvian property. In these first weeks around 2000 Jews were killed and on the 24th [of] July, 3000 more men were assembled on the "Hauptwachplatz" and after their papers and valuables were taken from them, they were transported to a small fishing port near the Lighthouse at the entrance of the Port. They were all killed then and there. The Jewish population of the smaller surrounding towns like Grobin, Hasenpot, etc. were all killed in their different small towns, and only a few were deported to Libau. The murderers took special satisfaction when they killed on Yom Kippur Day 50 old men and women. After complaints from Latvians living near the Lighthouse about the noise, the executions there were stopped. Soon another order was published saying that Jews were not to leave their homes on the 15th and 16th [of] December. They were then told by Latvians to dress warmly as they were about to be sent to work in distant places. The truth was they did not go far, only 7 kilometres, to Shkeden, and there on the beach another 3000 Jews were massacred. It was later reported that some of the killers could not bear any more the sight of these bestialities and literally went crazy. The German Commissar named Laze heard about these massacres and asked Berlin either to stop these or change the means of exterminations. He argued that the killings were disrupting his plans for the work the Jews were carrying out for the German Army. The laconic reply he received from Berlin was "economic considerations are not to be taken into account in solving that problem." Another 375 Jews were killed on 12.2.42 [February 12, 1942] and by the end of June 1942 the Ghetto of Libau was founded. On the 1st of July the Ghetto was entirely cut off from the remaining population, and in the Ghetto, 816 people including 175 males were settled. Eleven houses were prepared for the inmates, and the preparation of the buildings, etc. was made by Jews especially selected for their good physical condition. In spite of overcrowding in the Ghetto houses, the inmates led an orderly life which was mostly due to the devotion of Mr. Israelit, a senior Jewish functionary in the town, who was assisted by Mr. Kagansky, the lawyer. Life as such in the Ghetto, with a small synagogue, a library and a small ambulatory clinic was not too difficult. The German Commander named Kretscher was rather an exception between the thousands of German officers, and treated the Jews relatively humanely. The Ghetto existed 18 months and was dismantled on the 18th of October 1943, when all were packed into railway cattle cars and transported to the "Kaiserwald" Camp near Riga. Of those who were sent there, 360 people were sent to the Auschwitz Crematorium. From the "Kaiserwald" Camp many were also sent to the "Riga-Reichsbahn," "A.E.G." and other camps in and around Riga. With the Russians approaching Riga, most of the Libauers were evacuated to Germany through Danzig and Stutthof, and were dispersed between the camps in Germany itself. When Libau was liberated, 40 living Jews were found out of the 9000 who had lived there until 1941." B. Libau Revisited, by Raya Westermann-Mazin "My first visit to Libau was in 1945, less than 2 months after the end of the war. At that time it was a closed city and the special laissez- passer had been difficult to obtain. I found eleven Jews in town, who had survived by miracles. After having dug up all the details available about the destruction of my family and friends, I listened for long hours to their stories, to the whole chronicle of the past 4 years, enveloped and absorbed in a nightmare in a nightmare for which there were hardly any adequate words in any human language. When I left I was sure that this was for good. In 1961 I came with my family from Odessa to Riga for a summer vacation. It was good to meet old friends, to enjoy the cool Baltic summer, to bathe in the sea and to linger in the white sand of the Riga Bay under the high fir trees. What suddenly made me lose my piece of mind was the last news about Libau: the city had been declared open by the Soviet authorities, with no need for a laissez-passer any more. Even Shkeden, the place in the "Kriegshafen" where the "Aktionen" had taken place, was open territory now; the centres of gravity of the naval port had evidently been moved elsewhere. Human bones had been found in the area of 8 kilometres where the shooting had taken place. The mass graves had been so close to the beach that the sea, penetrating the shallow sands, had washed them up to the surface. The authorities had permitted the Jewish community to take the bones to the cemetery and to bury them. There had been a memorial service, a gravestone had been put up. The plane which took me to Libau in 45 minutes hardly deserved the proud definition of an aircraft. It was a primitive little thing, not soundproofed, which held 15-20 passengers who sat lulled and dulled by the deafening noise of the engine. It had been raining and the plane was bumping up and down from one cloud to the other. Only at noon when we landed the sun broke through. Libau had changed. Sixteen years ago the whole centre and the adjoining streets had been a vast heap of ruins with mutilated skeletons of houses sticking out here and there, the grass sprouting out of the dust which had cemented the stones in the four years of the war. I had felt shaken then but I had not felt stranger. It still had seemed a part of myself - this beautiful, small Baltic town. That it looked victimised, violated and ruined was an integral part of the tragedy which had happened to it and to me. This time, venturing out into the city of my hotel at the Rosenplatz, I felt like a tourist in a strange town. The roses on the square, all shades from white to pink to purple, looked as lush and well groomed on their long stems as before, but now there were some renovated buildings and Russian-style cafeterias around the square. New modern houses were making up a new Weidenstrasse and part of the Kornstrasse which had been destroyed, but these were completely new streets, awakening no memories whatsoever. The names of the streets had been changed, the signs were in Latvian and Russian. There were many uniforms, mostly naval. "You go straight down the Ulichstrasse till the entrance to the "Fisherhafen," I had been advised by old Libau friends. The street had not changed. Although it looked much smaller and narrower than in my memories, the wide branches of the old lime and acorn trees still cast the same deep shadow over the sidewalk, with the breeze rustling lightly in their ample foliage. The entrance to the "Fisherhafen" was changed: some new stone houses had been put up. The plaque I had come to see was on one of the walls. There was an inscription in Latvian and in Russian: "To the victims of Fascism" killed during the German occupation. One cannot put flowers on a wall, so I put mine down on the ground - to my father and to all the others. It was already rather late in the afternoon but there might still have been time to drive down to the cemetery. Only...I didn't feel like it. Nobody I had come to visit here had been quietly put to rest in that peaceful place. Then, all of a sudden, I knew where I really wanted to go. To admit the truth, I have no recollections whatsoever of the 8 or 10 kilometres' drive from Libau to Shkeden on that summer day of 1961. Never during all the coming years would even a single memory surface or a single vision arise of the surrounding landscape. The taxi might have been speeding through a vacuum as far as I was concerned. The last thing which stuck in my memory was hiring it at the stop near the Central Market Place where I had bought a huge bunch of red roses. The driver was a Russian and I had felt relieved that he was not a Latvian. "This is a long drive," he said giving me a strange side-glance as I slipped into the seat beside him. But he didn't ask any questions and we drove in silence. It was a sunny day but I didn't feel it. In my mind I was in snow and cold and winter, back to all I had been told of this last journey - the death march of the Jews of Libau. This way they had gone in buses in December 1941, and in sledges and carts or more primitive vehicles in February 1942. As many times before I tried to imagine what my mother must have thought and felt, or my aunts, or my friends or other people I had known. I don't think I even came close to it, but there was no getting away from it, neither from the stories I had heard, nor from the photographs I had seen in Libau in 1945, fresh from the lab, pictures of people on the snow, stripped naked, in the background the Latvian "aizsargi" with their rifles, the earflaps of their caps down, and the collars of their uniforms up against the biting cold... The driver had stopped the car. "Well...?" he said turning to me, "That's as far as we can go." "Leave your taximeter on," I replied getting out of the car. The vast terrain was unbelievably quiet. One could hear the humming of the insects flitting by in the sun, or a sudden shriek of a seagull from the nearby sea. There was only a very light breeze, the blue surface was scarcely rippled by tiny waves, only far away there were a few white crests. A couple of old wooden watchtowers showed that this had been maritime border region some time ago. The dunes were very low and when I turned away inland from the sea they stopped altogether. The ground was sand everywhere, only a few clusters of sharp grey-greenish sea grass were growing here and there. I saw the obelisk from afar. It was a simple unspectacular four-edged cone of white limestone. When I came up to it, I read the stereotyped inscription in Russian and Latvian dedicated to the "Victims of Fascism" during the war. This time there was a number of the people killed. I don't remember it exactly but it was unbelievably high. There had never been so many Jews in the whole Baltic states. I had, however, heard that Eichmann's twisted bookkeeping had brought the Hungarian Jews to die on this sandy beach, and probably there had also been others. The word "Jew" was mentioned nowhere on any inscription. By now, however, I was used to this sort of Soviet post-mortem discrimination. As I had done the day before, I here, too, put down my roses and resumed my wandering. There were many empty cartridge cases of different calibre's on the ground. I bent down to look at them but I did not pick them up. Then I found the bone. It was an ulna, one of the two bones connecting the wrist with the elbow. It looked very dry and frail, it was small, that of a child probably not older than ten or twelve years. I don't know why I saw a little girl before me, it could as well have been a little boy. I took it back to the obelisk and started to dig a hole in the ground having no other instruments than my bare ten fingers. As I could not find a stone on the sandy ground I put some roses on the tiny grave and rose to my feet. It was a long walk back to the car. If the town had looked much smaller in comparison to what I had remembered, this sandy plain felt vast and endless and larger than life. A few hours later I was on my way back. Strapped to my seat in the same little bee of a plane I looked down at the city vanishing quickly beneath the wings. There was no regret or nostalgia that this was, I knew, the last time I would be seeing it. C. Witness for the Prosecution, by Arnold Engel "I waited a long time for this day. I thought the day would never come. The room in the new hotel - Intercontinental in Hanover - was spacious, warm and well lit. I got up early on this Friday, April 3rd, 1970, shaved and gave a look at my watch. It was 7:30 in the morning. One more hour. One more hour and I will face him. Will I recognise him? Will I be able to look into his eyes? I opened the curtain and looked outside. The new, modern television tower looked yellowish, as the sun was rising, and the light snow from the night before was starting to melt. I had a cup of coffee and hailed a taxi-cab: "Zum Landesgericht bitte." It was a ten minute ride. A police car rushed by blowing its horn, which sounded exactly as the Gestapo horns: pipi-pipi-pipi-pipi, the same sound of the police van which picked up Anna Frank and millions of others. The guard on duty at the court house directed me to the court room. It was early. I and "his" attorney were first. The court session was called for 8:30. Two minutes before, they started to come. One by one, in groups of three or four. Then I saw him. I recognised him at once. How could I have ever thought that I would not remember him? Aged, but still tall, slim, blondish and his trade-mark: cool, murderish, motionless eyes. The court clerk called to order. The judges entered. The jury looked bored. The defenders looked somewhat nervous, the defendant tried to remember if he ever saw me. He whispered something to his lawyer. Everything became quiet in the court room No. 127. Who is this man? It was said that he was once so powerful, that he helped to wipe out a whole town, he killed Children, shot hundreds of old people, young people, men, women, Jews and others all in one day, and managed to wash his bloody hands, have a few drinks and spend that evening joking or dancing, playing games or reading a newspaper - as if nothing had happened that day. After stating my name, address and birthday I was asked by one of the judges: "Mr. Engel, do you recognise any of these gentlemen?" "I do, sir." "Please point out, whom do you recognise?" "Him, Erich Handke." "Please tell us what do you know about Erich Handke?" For twenty-nine years I had dreamed about having the opportunity to testify against this brutal man - Handke. I knew that he was alive somewhere in Germany. One week after Hitler attacked the USSR, the Wehrmacht entered our small town of Libau on the Baltic Sea. Close to 9,000 Jews lived in Libau before the war - out of a population of 56,000. Libau had a rich Jewish community with two noted synagogues, a Jewish trade school, a Yeshiva, a Jewish private school, high school and a Jewish sports stadium, a yacht club and all the usual organisations, including the known sport club "Maccabi"." There were very few real rich Jews, but also very few were poor. Always a shipping and trading city plus its location at the white sandy Baltic seacoast, the city did its share of progress in tourism, in export and in import. Soon after the Wehrmacht, the Gestapo arrived, under leadership of SS-Obersturmfuehrer Dr. Fritz Dietrich, SD-leader Wolfgang Kigler, and Erich Handke who seemed to be in charge of everything, but mainly to solve the Jewish question. The first mass destruction of the Libau Jews took place on the hot summer day of July 27, 1941. The Jews were ordered to appear on the Hauptwachplatz. Known as ever law-abiding, the Jews obeyed the orders. At the square they had to stay at attention. Many were beaten up and had to undergo terrible treatment by the SS-men. Erich Handke was on the warpath. Kicking, shouting and slapping, he ordered hundreds of Jews to be thrown on ready brought trucks. As the number of Jews present diminished, he noticed a tall handsome, grey- haired gentleman, who was none other than Dr. Schwab, a well known local physician. Handke killed him in a brutal manner; this murder was witnessed by the hundreds of Jews who were still standing at attention on the square, where I used to come as a child and watch the fire engines being cleaned. During that day, on a hot July, over three thousand Jews were executed near the lighthouse in the vicinity of the sandy beach, where people used to bathe. Handke did not stop here. He was everywhere. Almost daily he would appear somewhere. Wait for them with their yellow rag, marked Jews marching from work, tired from their slave labour, hungry from not eating - and with a "blitz" he would start to attack. It would take up this and many more journals to describe all the "heroic deeds" of this bloodthirsty murderer. When a day passed by and he did not destroy a human life, he would order one of his Jewish slaves to find some pigeons and bring them to him in a hurry. Once they brought him the pigeons, he would take them, one by one and squeeze their heads off, by placing the birds between the door of his office and pulling the door shut. By 1942, one year later, there were only 800 Jews alive. A Ghetto was created and the 800 moved into it on the 1st of July, 1942. The Libau Ghetto was liquidated on the 6th of October, Yom Kippur day, and the inmates were sent to the Kaiserwald near Riga concentration camp, and when the number dwindled to less than 500 they were sent to the Stutthof death camp near Danzig. Today, there are less than 80 Jews who survived the war, the camps and Handke. Many do not have the strength to testify against the Scharfuehrer (Staff Sergeant) Erich Handke, born 10 November, 1914 (SS #371241) in Lisa, Germany; many do not recall the exact dates, locations or even if Dr. Schwab was attacked at the Firemen's Square or in the women's jail (where the Jews were once more screened before being sent to their death). The German court at Hanover tried their best to have Erich Handke with his eight other cohorts convicted, they have travelled to the USA and Israel, and were permitted to interview survivors now residing in the USSr. But, because of the time elapsed, the reasons I gave before, Erich Handke may be walking the streets a free man at Tailfingen. I do not regret that I went to Hanover, that I once more faced this mass-murderer Handke. I am glad, that I was able to be a witness for the prosecution." PHOTO: 1. I have on file a photo of Lena (Kramer) Herzenberg and her descendants taken circa 1927 from Ron Lapid per his email dated 3 Aug 2010 -Lena (at an advanced age). -Lena's sons (missing Max Mordechai and Edward): -Adolf (Avraham) with no wife but with adult son Leon standing behind Adolf resting a hand on Adolf's shoulder. Leon's name is an error and the son is confirmed by Gail as her father Willy Gabriel. -Willy Gabriel, wife Sarah Hellman, dau. Frieda, sons Eliezer, Joseph, Zvi (Harry). -Joseph Jacov, wife Rachel Freudberg, children Klara, Taube, Nichole, Bernie, Judith; son Willy is missing from photo. -Lena's daughter Sarah Levenstein (seated) and unidentified girl standing behind her with resting an arm on Sarah's shoulder who could be Sarah's daughter Hinda. No husband shown (deceased?) for Sarah. Both seem to be wearing black in the photo (perhaps a sign of mourning?). -One unidentified adult male sitting on Lena's immediate left (Adolphe sitting in same position on opposite side of Lena). By looks, he appears same age as other brothers. Could this be Max Mordechai (without his wife and Children) or even Edward (on a visit back from the US)? SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ 2. Interested researcher: Binni Lewis 18 Aug 2007 | Herzenberg, Adolphe or Avraham Elchanan (I4068)
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| 5458 | 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: HG016 2. Email dated 22 Jan 2018 from Gilda Kurtzman of Petach Tikva, Israel 1 Yosef Herzenberg + Rebecca Iddelson 2 Tzvi Hirsch Herzenberg b: 1836 in Libau, Latvia, d: 1925 in Libau, Latvia + Lena Kramer b: Abt. 1834 in Libau, Latvia, d: Nov 27, 1929 in Libau, Latvia 3 Adolph HERZENBERG b: Abt. 1870 in Aizpute (Hazenpoth) or Grobin, Courland, Latvia, d: Dec 1941 in Lativa, Holocaust + Lydia RAIVID b: Abt. 1879 in Possibly Telsiai, d: Sep 08, 1926 in Libau, Latvia 4 Leo HERZENBERG b: Jan 04, 1899 in Lativa, d: Mar 06, 1971 in Tel Aviv, Israel + Lucy ??? b: Abt. 1900 in Lithuania, m: Bef. 1927 in Lithuania, d: Aug 01, 1969 in Wiesbaden, Germany 5 Lilli HERZENBERG b: Mar 17, 1928 in Lithuania, d: May 29, 2000 in Wiesbaden, Germany + Julius FARKAS b: Jul 02, 1910 in Frankfurt, Germany, m: Jun 27, 1950 in Tel Aviv, Israel, d: Jun 10, 1996 in Wiesbaden, Germany 6 Daniel Josef FARKAS b: Jul 30, 1956 in Wiesbaden, Germany + Dalia MIZRACHI b: Sep 11, 1957 in Tel Aviv, Israel, m: Aug 25, 1980 in Wiesbaden, Germany 7 Inbal FARKAS b: Feb 26, 1982 in Wiesbaden, Germany + Shmuel COHEN m: Nov 17, 2011 in Haifa, Israel 7 Chaim FARKAS b: Jun 01, 1985 in Holon, Israel + Adva MADANES m: Jun 10, 2016 in Chavat Ronit, Israel 7 Avital FARKAS b: Nov 14, 1991 in Holon, Israel 4 Gabriel William HERZENBERG b: Jul 19, 1900 in Libau, Latvia, d: May 27, 1985 in Chevy Chase, MD + Toba SCHLOSS b: May 17, 1911 in Pennsylvania, m: May 31, 1938 in Washington, DC, d: May 10, 1997 in North Bethesda, MD 5 Berl Jacob HERZENBERG b: May 07, 1942 in Washington, DC + Joanne MAFUCCI b: 1940 5 Gail Joanne HERZENBERG b: Apr 26, 1945 in Washington, DC, d: Jan 17, 2013 + Jerrold Leslie ZIMMERMAN b: Jan 04, 1946, m: May 30, 1970 6 Joanna Herzenberg ZIMMERMAN b: Feb 22, 1978 in Richmond, VA + Jonathan Paul LACROIX b: Sep 01, 1962, m: Jul 08, 2005 in Lexington, VA 7 Tova ZIMMERMAN LACROIX b: May 20, 2008 in Virginia 6 Noah Herzenberg ZIMMERMAN b: Sep 28, 1981 in Washington, DC 4 Irving HERZENBERG b: Nov 03, 1903 in Libau, Latvia, d: Apr 27, 1964 in New York City, NY + Janice WILE b: May 15, 1913 in New York, m: Feb 04, 1937 in New York City, NY, d: Nov 07, 1982 in Burlington, VT 5 Linda HERZENBERG b: Jun 21, 1942 in New York + Peter W. SPARKS b: Mar 15, 1942, m: Feb 08, 1964 in Burlington, VT 6 Lauren SPARKS b: Sep 18, 1964 in Burlington, VT. + Timothy E. WRIGHT b: Oct 16, 1963, m: Jun 11, 1995 in Vermont 7 Liam WRIGHT b: Feb 13, 1998 in Concord, NH 7 Garret WRIGHT b: Jul 15, 1999 in Concord, NH 6 Jennifer SPARKS b: Mar 04, 1967 in Burlington, VT. + Ari GOLDSTEIN m: Dec 28, 2002 in Jackson Hall, WY 7 Beatarix GOLDSTEIN b: Feb 27, 2006 in Jackson Hall, WY 5 Carol Joan HERZENBERG b: May 08, 1944 in New York + Jake Simon MEYER 6 Cecelia MEYER b: 1971 6 Danielle Neva MEYER b: Apr 29, 1978 in El Paso County, TX + Andrew Eric GEISHEIMER b: Sep 01, 1977, m: Nov 02, 2009 in Adams, CO 6 Jared Cephas MEYER b: Aug 06, 1980 in El Paso County, TX 3 Edward Herzenberg 3 Max Herzenberg 3 Joseph Jacob Herzenberg 3 Sarah Herzenberg 3 Willy Gabriel Herzenberg" DEATH: 1. Http://www4.yadvashem.org Holocaust database: Yosef Yaakov Hercenberg was born 24 Feb 1874 in Hasenpoth, Latvia to Tsvi Hirsch and Lena nee Kramer. Tsvi died before the war. Lena died 1925/26. Prior to WWII he lived at Brivibas IELA5 (Alexanderstrasse) in Libau, Latvia. Willie perished in the Shoah. He was a grocery store owner and married to Rachel Friedberg. Website has photo of him. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted 18 Feb 1993 by his daughter Tauby Hercenberg Lewis residing at Ezion Gaber 3/7 Jerusalem, 97823. BIRTH: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kenny Petersen. MARRIAGE: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kerry Petersen. BURIAL: 1. Website for "Liepaja Jewish Cemetery Book, 1909-1941," accessed 4 Aug 2010: -Hirsch Herzenberg, d. 27 Oct 1919 (4 Cheshvan 5680). -Lina Herzenberg, d. 27 Nov 1929 (24 Cheshvan 5690). [Probable wife to Hirsch: Lena Kramer.] -Liebe Herzenberg, d. 8 Sep 1926 [29 Elul 5686) [Probable dau.-in-law to Hirsch and Lena: Lydia Reyvid.] PHOTO: 1. I have on file a photo of Lena (Kramer) Herzenberg and her descendants taken circa 1927 from Ron Lapid per his email dated 3 Aug 2010 -Lena (at an advanced age). -Lena's sons (missing Max Mordechai and Edward): -Adolf (Avraham) with no wife but with adult son Leon standing behind Adolf resting a hand on Adolf's shoulder. Leon's name is an error and the son is confirmed by Gail as her father Willy Gabriel. -Willy Gabriel, wife Sarah Hellman, dau. Frieda, sons Eliezer, Joseph, Zvi (Harry). -Joseph Jacov, wife Rachel Freudberg, children Klara, Taube, Nichole, Bernie, Judith; son Willy is missing from photo. -Lena's daughter Sarah Levenstein (seated) and unidentified girl standing behind her with resting an arm on Sarah's shoulder who could be Sarah's daughter Hinda. No husband shown (deceased?) for Sarah. Both seem to be wearing black in the photo (perhaps a sign of mourning?). -One unidentified adult male sitting on Lena's immediate left (Adolphe sitting in same position on opposite side of Lena). By looks, he appears same age as other brothers. Could this be Max Mordechai (without his wife and Children) or even Edward (on a visit back from the US)? SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ 2. Rootsweb.com 28 Jul 2007 Worldconnect database "bjephart" of Betsy Thal Gephart 3. Interested researcher: Binni Lewis 18 Aug 2007 | Kramer, Lena or Sarah (I4067)
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| 5459 | 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: LA 008 shows Liba b. Abraham. Peter notes that this is a tenuous link. BIRTH: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kenny Petersen. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ | Herzenberg, Liba (I4065)
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| 5460 | 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: HL 106/111 shows b. in Goldingen, d. in Riga, md. to Weinberg. 2. Courland (Kurzeme in Latvian, Kurland in German) is the historically distinct area of modern day Latvia bounded by the Baltic Sea to the west, Lithuania to the south, and the Dvina River (now Daugava) to the North. Its historic capital was Mitau (now Jelgava). It had ice-free Baltic ports with commercial and strategic importance. At its height Courland was a prosperous and cultured German-speaking Duchy. Courland was a separate Gubernia (Province) of the Russian Empire from 1797-1918. 50-60% of the Jews living in Riga just north of Courland had family roots in Courland. The names of the various towns have changed now that the area is part of Latvia (new-old as of early 1900s): Aizpute-Hasenpoth Jelgava-Mitau Kuldiga-Goldingen Liepaja-Libau Piltene-Pilten Talsi-Talsen Ventspils-Windau 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: "The Generation of My Parents [78] My grandparents Naftali and Nese had four sons and six daughters: Leonhard, Joseph, Ignatz, Leopold, Sarah, Ernestine, Sophie, Fanny, Dora, and Lina... Of the aunts I know even less, except for Fanny, of whom I write later... Aunt LINA married Hermann Weinberg in Riga. I still knew her as a very pretty girl. She had the best life of all the sisters. She has two sons and a daughter. She lived in rather good circumstances in Riga; how it goes now [89] under the Soviets, I don't know. My brother Erich in Riga does not worry [kumert sich nicht] about the family, so till now I was unable to find out anything." BIRTH: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kenny Petersen. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ | Herzenberg, Lina (I4049)
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| 5461 | 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: HL 106/110 shows b. in Goldingen, d. in Mitua, md. to Judelowitz. 2. Courland (Kurzeme in Latvian, Kurland in German) is the historically distinct area of modern day Latvia bounded by the Baltic Sea to the west, Lithuania to the south, and the Dvina River (now Daugava) to the North. Its historic capital was Mitau (now Jelgava). It had ice-free Baltic ports with commercial and strategic importance. At its height Courland was a prosperous and cultured German-speaking Duchy. Courland was a separate Gubernia (Province) of the Russian Empire from 1797-1918. 50-60% of the Jews living in Riga just north of Courland had family roots in Courland. The names of the various towns have changed now that the area is part of Latvia (new-old as of early 1900s): Aizpute-Hasenpoth Jelgava-Mitau Kuldiga-Goldingen Liepaja-Libau Piltene-Pilten Talsi-Talsen Ventspils-Windau 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: "The Generation of My Parents [78] My grandparents Naftali and Nese had four sons and six daughters: Leonhard, Joseph, Ignatz, Leopold, Sarah, Ernestine, Sophie, Fanny, Dora, and Lina... Of the aunts I know even less, except for Fanny, of whom I write later... Aunt DORA married Ezekiel Judelowitz in Mitau. He had a bargain shop there. That did not fit at all well with the nimbus of kingly business people of uncle Abraham and the Grand Duchess of Kurland, aunt Therese, so relations were tense or none. Uncle Keuchel, as cousins Runkel and Kunkel (see above under uncle Abraham) called him, seems to have been dead a long time, and aunt Dora still lives in Mitau." BIRTH: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kenny Petersen. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ | Herzenberg, Dora (I4048)
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| 5462 | 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: HL 106/109 shows b. in Goldingen, d. in Libua, md. to Lowenstein. 2. Courland (Kurzeme in Latvian, Kurland in German) is the historically distinct area of modern day Latvia bounded by the Baltic Sea to the west, Lithuania to the south, and the Dvina River (now Daugava) to the North. Its historic capital was Mitau (now Jelgava). It had ice-free Baltic ports with commercial and strategic importance. At its height Courland was a prosperous and cultured German-speaking Duchy. Courland was a separate Gubernia (Province) of the Russian Empire from 1797-1918. 50-60% of the Jews living in Riga just north of Courland had family roots in Courland. The names of the various towns have changed now that the area is part of Latvia (new-old as of early 1900s): Aizpute-Hasenpoth Jelgava-Mitau Kuldiga-Goldingen Liepaja-Libau Piltene-Pilten Talsi-Talsen Ventspils-Windau 3. Len Yodaiken notes Lowenstein children Marie, Mischa, and Adolph in his "The Herzenbergs of Piltene and Liepeja Latvia," 1 Jan 2000, copy in my possession - KP. 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: "The Generation of My Parents [78] My grandparents Naftali and Nese had four sons and six daughters: Leonhard, Joseph, Ignatz, Leopold, Sarah, Ernestine, Sophie, Fanny, Dora, and Lina... Of the aunts I know even less, except for Fanny, of whom I write later... Aunt FANNY, who took over my care after the deaths of my mother and aunt Sophie Gerson (of whom I will say more), married Nathan Lowenstein, who died in 1940. They had a bargain shop [kramladen] and a cartage business [fuhrbetrieb]. They were well off. They had three sons. Since my parents did not get along with her, we rarely came together with the children, especially since they suffered from outspoken inferiority complexes [besonders da diese an ausgeschprochenen minderwertigkeitskomplexen litten]. The oldest son, Marie, lived in Riga; the second, Mischa in Libau [88]; the youngest, Adolph is a doctor who last lived in Paulshafen. Aunt Fanny still lives in Libau, but did not stay in touch with the children." BIRTH: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kenny Petersen. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ | Herzenberg, Fanny or Feiga (I4047)
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| 5463 | 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: HL 106/107 shows b. in Goldingen, d. in Goldingen, md. to 1. Bernitz, 2. Solmanssohn. 2. Courland (Kurzeme in Latvian, Kurland in German) is the historically distinct area of modern day Latvia bounded by the Baltic Sea to the west, Lithuania to the south, and the Dvina River (now Daugava) to the North. Its historic capital was Mitau (now Jelgava). It had ice-free Baltic ports with commercial and strategic importance. At its height Courland was a prosperous and cultured German-speaking Duchy. Courland was a separate Gubernia (Province) of the Russian Empire from 1797-1918. 50-60% of the Jews living in Riga just north of Courland had family roots in Courland. The names of the various towns have changed now that the area is part of Latvia (new-old as of early 1900s): Aizpute-Hasenpoth Jelgava-Mitau Kuldiga-Goldingen Liepaja-Libau Piltene-Pilten Talsi-Talsen Ventspils-Windau 3. Len Yodaiken notes children of Ernestine and Michael Bernitz as Julius Bernitz (md. Polly suzman), Hermann Bernitz, and Frieda Bernitz in his "The Herzenbergs of Piltene and Liepeja Latvia," 1 Jan 2000, copy in my possession - KP. 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: "The Generation of My Parents [78] My grandparents Naftali and Nese had four sons and six daughters: Leonhard, Joseph, Ignatz, Leopold, Sarah, Ernestine, Sophie, Fanny, Dora, and Lina... Of the aunts I know even less, except for Fanny, of whom I write later... Aunt ERNESTINE's first husband was Michael Bernitz, who was a widower with many Children. From this marriage came my cousins Julius, Hermann (Hemske), and Frieda. Uncle Bernitz, also a brewer, died young. Aunt Ernestine stayed with the younger children at Grandmother's in Goldingen, cousin Julius came to my father and was raised with me. He was a little [85] older than I, attended Blumenau's cheder, and then in 1895, when my father and uncle Joseph founded the firm Gebruder Herzenberg, he became an apprentice in the business. He stayed there a few more years after the death of my father with my brother George. He lived in our home, sharing my room until I left home in 1902. Soon after that my brother George drove him out of the business [herausgeekelt]. He had a small factory [industrie] making coconut mats [kokoslaufern] in Libau, which the Soviets left him in 1940 [die ihm die Soviets in 1940 belassen haben]. He had two children in his marriage, Mischa and Nancy. Mischa supposedly plays cello, of Nancy I know nothing. When cousin Hermann became older, he also came to Libau as an apprentice at Gebr. Herzenberg, and uncle Joseph took him into his house. Times there were not good for him. But he was so cheerful and imperturbable that he tolerated it very well. He emigrated to South Africa still before the first world war, [86] where he became fat and wealthy. His sister Frieda also followed him there, where, as far as I know, she is married and happy. Aunt Ernestine, in a second marriage, married a widower, Salmanssohn, with whom she had a son, whom I hardly knew. He worked in my father's business, and he was also driven out by my brother George after father died. I don't know what became of him." 2. PDF entitiled "My Ancestors and my Descendents -- The Bernitz Family. Latvia to South Africa, by Charles Bernitz, February 2010, fully posted 5 July 2020 to the Family Search sources for Micahel Behr Bernitz and Ernestine Herzenberg. The following are excerpts concerning Michael Bernitz and Ernestine Herzenberg and Ernestine's second husband. For photos see the same PDF in Family Search: "Michel Behr Bernitz Michel, also known as Mikhail and Michael (my great-grandfather) was married twice, and had children in both marriages. Michel‟s birth date is not known, but can be calculated as being between 1830 and 1840. He grew up in the Jewish community in Hasenpoth (now called Aizpute). We know that the children from his 2nd marriage to Ernestina were born in Gros-Dahmen (Russian: Gruz-Dimena), in the Hasenpoth district; we can therefore assume that he settled there around 1884. It is located 5 km from the current civil parish of Gramzda. This was a small place without authorities with whom to register births. Michel only obtained a certificate regarding their birth registration from the Rabbi of the Skude district (which is across the border in Lithuania) many years after they were born. He was known to be a brewer, and the certificate mentioned above refers to him as the Hasenpoth petit bourgeois Michel Behr, an indication that he had been admitted to the merchant class. Gros-Dahmen was a large country estate, belonging to a Baron Nicholas Schroder. It did not have (and still does not have any large town). Michael had two marriages, with children from each marriage. First marriage to Lea Friedman. Michel married Lea Friedman in 1862, when she was 21 years old. He was either of a similar age, or up to 10 years older. They lived in Hasenpoth, and had 2 boys and 2 girls – Isidor (birth date unknown), Nochum (1870), Rahle (1874) and Pere (1875). Both daughters married in Latvia. No further records have been found for Nochum – he probably left Latvia. As we have not yet located any birth documents for Isidor, there is a possibility that Nochum and Isidor are the same person. Lea died on the 24th May, 1875, the year that Pere was born. I suspect that she died in childbirth. Second marriage to Ernestina Herzenberg I have been puzzled by a number of issues relating to Michel Behr‟s history. 1. The lack of birth documents for himself, as well as for the second son from his first marriage. 2. The fact that he chose not to register the births of any of the children of his second marriage for many years (I believe that the birth certificate that was eventually issued by the Rabbi in Skude was only issued after Michael had died, probably at the request of his then widow Ernestina). 3. The fact that he moved from Hasenpoth, where he had been an established merchant (brewer), to Gruz-Dimene after his second marriage to Ernestina. 4. The stories, retold independently by both Ernie (as heard from Herman), and by Joanna (as heard from Isidor), that Michel and Ernestina socialized with the nobility, or that he was possibly even ennobled himself, with the title of Baron. Though intriguing, this is extremely unlikely. But was there any basis for the stories? The fact that neither the birth of his second son, nor subsequent children‟s births were registered was not in itself unusual. Records may simply be lost or destroyed. As described elsewhere, conscription laws for Jewish boys were draconian, and parents took many risks and used many ploys to protect their sons from this. Failing to register a birth was one device; it exposed the father to financial punishment, but possibly protected his son. Moving away from Hasenpoth with a new bride certainly provided an opportunity to hide his new sons from birth and conscription registers. Whether this was the reason that Michel Behr moved is not established, but I think that it may have been. The move to Gros-Dahmen is itself of interest. Situated in Courland, close to the current Lithuanian border, it was a large country estate belonging to a Baron Nicholas Schroder. It is known that on the estate he farmed sheep, pigs, carp, and honey. There was a large mill, and also a very large house. There are early descriptions of large buildings that provided housing for hundreds of servants and farm staff. The estate itself was one of many similar ones. There are descriptions of large parties held by the landowners, horse riding and hunting and other entertainments. The Herzenberg's may well have facilitated the move to this estate. Robert Herzenberg had recorded that “Our family was distributed throughout the Pilten area in the estates of the barons such as Baer, Ropp, Osten-Laken, Vietiunhof, etc. They were dairy and wood retailers, but predominantly, distillers.” He recalls further that “. . . there was a converted (from Judaism) "frau”, the cousin of my mother, Rosa Herzberg, the daughter of great-aunt Balkan Herzberg (born Herzenberg) who had married the Baron Lowenstein of Kokenhusen. I knew this baroness personally.” Schroder was a Christian German landowner. Ever since the crusades, many Germans had lived in the Baltic provinces of the Russia Empire. Rīga was practically a German city. They were not the majority but they were the rulers. The German nobility as well as German members of the Great Guild (merchants) and the Small Guild (organized craftsmen) were responsible for promulgating the laws and rules in the cities and provinces. The Baltic Germans, especially the nobility, also frequently held high positions in the Tsar‟s government. This is not surprising, as almost all of the Tsars of the Russian Empire during the 19th century were ethnic Germans. Nicholas Schroder had acquired the estate in 1878, and the family continued to own it until the Russian occupation in 1940. This estate as well as the surrounding estates, together with their employees, required the supply of numerous goods and services. These were provided by traders and artisans living on small settlements on land belonging to the estate. Gramzda, where Michel Behr had his business, and where Herman and Frida were born. Gros-Dahmen, as it was, no longer exists, and cannot be found on a modern map of Latvia. With the aid of Rita Bogdanova and Elena Spungina we were able to narrow the search to a small town with the modern Latvian name of Gramzda. I visited this, found the local municipal offices, and through the translation skills of Elena, I received confirmation from the “mayor” of the town that the site of the estate still existed. With his kind assistance I was able to meet the current owner, Irena (no surname given) and her family who have been living there since 1953. They now occupy a very much smaller house that was built above the previous cellars of the estate, and which they built themselves over many decades. They have also restored the fish ponds. She was visited in 2000 by a descendent of Nicholas Schroder, a man at that point 99 years old. As a boy he had lived on the estate and she told us how he vividly described life on the estate. The house was very large. It was built at the water‟s edge, and was surrounded by water. There was a large carp pool, servant‟s buildings, and a timber workshop. The beautiful garden was huge, and had many gardeners. Irena remembers that when she was still a child that the gardens were still beautiful. The remains of the tree lined carriage drive to the estate, over 1 km long. The house and all of the buildings were burned down in 1905.They were rebuilt, but then destroyed by the Russians, who then erected a small number of military hangers, still to be seen. Very few people lived in the area during communist times, nor live there now. The countryside still consists of forests and open fields. Around the estate the remnants of the gardens and ponds can clearly be seen, with beautiful winding drives lined with 200 year old trees. With this information available, I believe that there is now a plausible explanation for the previously mentioned puzzling issues. Michel Behr never did register the birth of his son Isador, in order to protect him from conscription. After Lea Friedman, his first wife died (1875), Michel remarried. He used the opportunity to leave Hasenpoth with the children from his first marriage. With his new wife Ernestina, he settled on the estate of Baron Schroder, around 1880/81 (probably soon after Baron Schroder himself arrived in 1878). He was able to establish a business based upon brewing. Typically in those times, licenses were granted to Jewish merchants to own a tavern and brew beer. They were heavily taxed for this privilege, whilst at the same time providing a useful service to the workers in the area. Michel and Ernestina had 3 children - Julius, Herman and Frida. They were far from any Jewish community. The closest was at Skude, now called Skuodas (and in Lithuania). It was about a day‟s journey away. They would have had to travel about 10 kilometres. by carriage, to join up with the railway line from Libau. Skude had a sizable Jewish community, and was under the auspices of the district Rabbi of Telz. Telz, now also in Lithuania, was a major centre for Jewish study, with a number of famous yeshivas. They would not have had much opportunity to attend the synagogue, but at the same time would have been “conveniently unable” to register the births of their children. Michel died around 1889 while his children were still young (Julius 8, Herman 4 and Frida 1). Unable to continue running the business, they had to leave Gros-Dahmen, and Ernestina went back to Goldingen with her children. It was during this same time frame that Isidor had either already left or did leave for South Africa. Like so many of his compatriots, economic opportunity as well as the avoidance of conscription would have been the motivating factors. I have been unable to trace the burial place of Michel. His body would have been transported to an approved Jewish cemetery, probably some distance away. I believe that the birth certificate issued by the Rabbi at Skude was only done after Michel died and probably given to Ernestina. The children would have observed a great deal about life on the noble estates. Their father as a merchant may well have had close contacts with the Baron. Many of the Barons had good relations with the Jews. They possibly had contact with their great aunt Rosa Herzberg who had married the Baron Lowenstein of Kokenhusen. These childhood memories, retold many times, could have been the basis for the stories of the grand life they had remembered. In any event, it all ended when Michel died. As the lives of Ernestina and Herman are well documented after that time, there was certainly no evidence of further grandeur or titles... Ernestina Herzenberg Ernestina was the sixth child of Naphtali (Naftali) Herzenberg and Agnes (Nese) Brenner. Naftali and Nese had four sons and six daughters: Leonhard, Joseph, Ignatz, Leopold, Sarah, Ernestine, Sophie, Fanny, Dora, and Lina. The Herzenbergs were a large family in Kurland. Their history has been well documented by the Herzenberg descendents (www.hertzenberg.net). RobertHerzenberg, of the same generation as Herman Bernitz and his brothers and step-brothers wrote his reminiscences in the 1940‟s. These were translated into English by his son Leonardo in the 1990‟s. They provide much information about Ernestina and the Bernitz family. They further provide a fascinating view of the lifestyle of our ancestors‟ generations in Kurland Ernestina‟s birth date is unknown. Her eldest brother Leonhard was born in 1856. As she gave birth to Julius in November 1881, she must have been fairly young when she was married (say 21). Therefore she probably married Michel around 1880/81, and was born in approx 1859/60. She was certainly much younger than Michael, possibly by 20-30 years. Left. Ernestina, holding a grandchild. Louis, Elias, Johana and Sofia Salmonsohn were her stepchildren. Right: Joe‟s nephew Zalman, with his mother. Photos from Bertha Aberman. Ernestina gave birth to 3 children with Michel - Julius, Herman and Frieda. She was also stepmother to Michel‟s 4 children by his first marriage to Lea Friedman – sons Isidore and Nochum and daughters Rahle and Pere. She was mother to a further child (Josef Salmonsohn) as well as 3 step-children in her second marriage. After Michel Behr Bernitz had died, Ernestina remarried. Her second husband was Shlomo Salmonsohn (Salmonsohn), a widower. The following account is from the Reminiscences of Robert Herzenberg “Aunt Ernestine‟s first husband was Michael Bernitz, who was a widower with many children. From this marriage came my cousins Julius, Herman (Hemske), and Frieda. Uncle Bernitz, also a brewer, died young. Aunt Ernestine stayed with the younger children at Grandmother's in Goldingen, cousin Julius came to my father and was raised with me. He was a little older than I, attended Blumenau's cheder, and then in 1895, when my father and uncle Joseph founded the firm Gebruder Herzenberg, he became an apprentice in the business. He stayed there a few more years after the death of my father with my brother George. He lived in our home, sharing my room until I left home in 1902. Soon after that my brother George drove him out of the business. He had a small factory making coconut mats in Libau. He had two children in his marriage, Mischa and Nancy. Mischa supposedly plays cello, of Nancy I know nothing. When cousin Herman became older, he also came to Libau as an apprentice at Gebr. Herzenberg and uncle Joseph took him into his house. Times there were not good for him. But he was so cheerful and imperturbable that he tolerated it very well. He immigrated to South Africa still before the first world war, where he became fat and wealthy. His sister Frieda also followed him there, where, as far as I know, she is married and happy. Aunt Ernestine, in a second marriage, married a widower, Salmonsohn, with whom she had a son, whom I hardly knew. He worked in my father's business, and he was also driven out by my brother George after father died. I don't know what became of him.” The grave of my great-great-grandmother, Nese Herzenberg, born Brenner. She is buried in a plot in Libau Jewish cemetery next to her father Naftali Brenner. Ernestina’s second marriage to Shlomo Salmonsohn When Ernestina married Shlomo (his first wife had died), she also became stepmother to his children from his first marriage, a son and a daughter. In all, Shlomo had 6 children, sons Louis and Elias, daughter Johanna, Sofia and Mara by his first marriage, and Joe with Ernestina in his second marriage. We know that Elias and Louis both immigrated to South Africa, whilst Mara remained in Goldingen in Latvia. There is no evidence that she ever married, and she did not have children. Her handwriting and letters indicate that she was not well educated; perhaps she has some learning difficulties. She probably died during the Holocaust. Photograph of Mara, with handwritten inscription on back: Dear brother. I am sending you my picture. Hope you will appreciate it. Write how you find it - does it do me justice? I am well and hope you are the same. many regards from your sister Mara The Salmonsohn Family. Records show that there have been Salmonsohn's in Goldingen since the late 1700s at least. The first recorded Salmonsohn was Abraham. His birth date can be calculated as 1770-1780. He had at least 3 sons– Solomon, Joel, and Levin. Joe‟s lineage was through Solomon. The chart below shows that there were a number of descendents in each subsequent generation, and further research is needed to link the other descendents of Abraham. This picture dates from 1919. It appears to be taken at the Seder table. The lady standing at the back is servant (most likely non-Jewish). Who are the others in the photo? The lady in the centre bears a resemblance to the photograph of a younger Ernestina (strong chin). She was 60 in 1919. The lady first left is strongly like the one who appears with Zalman on page 31. Therefore possibly his mother, and the wife of either Louis or Elias Salmonsohn (sitting far right). The man next to Ernestina is possibly Zalman – compare also to picture page 32." BIRTH: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kenny Petersen. MARRIAGE: 1. JewishGen website for family trees has an entry for Herman (Zvi) Bernitz b. 1886 in Libau and d. 11 Jan 1948 at Witbank, South Africa. Parents are listed as Mikhael Bernitz and Ernestina Hertzenberg. This would establish a marriage of before 1886. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ | Herzenberg, Ernestine (I4045)
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| 5464 | 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: HL 106/10 shows b. in Goldingen, d. in, md. to . 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: "The Generation of My Parents [78] My grandparents Naftali and Nese had four sons and six daughters: Leonhard, Joseph, Ignatz, Leopold, Sarah, Ernestine, Sophie, Fanny, Dora, and Lina... Of the aunts I know even less, except for Fanny, of whom I write later. Aunt Sarah was married to Michael Friedmann in Sackenhausen. They had many children of whom I had only superficial knowledge. I only saw them two or three times, lastly when she was already a widow living in Riga and I visited her in 1930 [84]. She was a strong woman, a master at brewing Easter mead [ostermet]. That was brewed by every family and drunk on Easter. Where the Jews picked up this old German, or old Slavic home industry is not clear to me, but the mead was clear and golden. In Mitau there was a large mead brewery, Friedlander, and their mead at Easter was an unforgettable pleasure." BIRTH: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kenny Petersen. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ | Herzenberg, Sarah (I4044)
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| 5465 | 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: HL 106/069 shows b. in Goldingen and d. in Libau, md. to Betty. Worked for the iron firm Samuel Michaelson. Thomasstrasse. Libau. 2. Courland (Kurzeme in Latvian, Kurland in German) is the historically distinct area of modern day Latvia bounded by the Baltic Sea to the west, Lithuania to the south, and the Dvina River (now Daugava) to the North. Its historic capital was Mitau (now Jelgava). It had ice-free Baltic ports with commercial and strategic importance. At its height Courland was a prosperous and cultured German-speaking Duchy. Courland was a separate Gubernia (Province) of the Russian Empire from 1797-1918. 50-60% of the Jews living in Riga just north of Courland had family roots in Courland. The names of the various towns have changed now that the area is part of Latvia (new-old as of early 1900s): Aizpute-Hasenpoth Jelgava-Mitau Kuldiga-Goldingen Liepaja-Libau Piltene-Pilten Talsi-Talsen Ventspils-Windau 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: "The Generation of My Parents [78] My grandparents Naftali and Nese had four sons and six daughters: Leonhard, Joseph, Ignatz, Leopold, Sarah, Ernestine, Sophie, Fanny, Dora, and Lina. All four brothers lived in Libau... The youngest, uncle Leopold, married in Minsk, while I was a student in Riga. Aunt Betty was less beautiful than able, German was difficult for her until the last. Uncle Leopold worked for the iron firm Samuel Michelson except for a short time when he was independent. He was always extremely able and diligent, he built up some wealth, had a nice house in the Thomasstrasse, with wonderful fruit and flower gardens. They had two children, Mascha and Kolja, the latter named after grandfather Naphtali (Nikolaus). Only the first letter is the same, but I doubt that the name Naphtali can still be used in western Europe, since it sounds just like the [81] naphthalene of moth-balls. Uncle Leopold and aunt Betty are still (April 1941) living in Libau, as well as Kolja, who works in the firm with his father. I don't know what became of Mascha. She was a pretty, clever, typically eastern Jewish girl; she married an eastern Jewish engineer-chemist Feodor Leszinsky whom she learned to know and love during her student time in Paris and Brussels. They had a daughter Claude. So Mascha ended up with the name of the polish princess Maria Lezinska, wife of King Ludwig the XV of France. Every time that they passed through the polish corridor on trips to Libau and showed the passport to the Polish officers, the latter were quite confused, since one could never know - who knows everything so well - that the thing went back 200 years. Leszinskys lived in Paris where old jewelry was melted and pure gold, silver,and platinum [msp 82] for jewelers were produced. I met him in 1930, at uncle Leopold and aunt Betty's silver wedding anniversary, when I was on vacation if Libau. He offered me a position which I did not accept. The things apparently went very wrong there, but I could not find out what was the matter. It seems that Leszinsky went out of the country, and Mascha with the child were to follow. I have heard nothing from them since. Aunt Betty and the other relatives in Libau sealed their lips air-tight, so I do not know how and when Mascha was surprised by the second world war. {Note added 21 June 42: Mascha went to Paris from Libau via Stockholm and London in August 39, and after a week to the United States, where her husband, Fedja had gone earlier. She wrote me in March 1942, they were then living in new York, he is employed by Philip Brothers. They changed the name, and are now called Leston. Uncle Leopold and aunt Betty were in the Libau ghetto, and no trace of Kolja, who had married a Lett}. The four brothers were all bald. They all had received a very poor cheder education. My father was the only one who could speak and write [83] German with no trouble, who had taught himself a remarkable education, who sometimes read a book or appreciated good music. Everything he knew of western and Jewish culture was entirely self-taught. The other three brothers remained at the point at which they had left the Cheder. They never left Libau and were very narrow-minded, and though they were my uncles, they and I did not have any contact areas. They never understood my student needs, and never helped me... ...The business went well, but it was no true happiness. Papachen did not get along with uncle Joseph, and Mamachen even less so with aunt Frieda, uncle Joseph's wife. Both had equal rights, and when Papachen hired somebody, and uncle Joseph did not like them, the latter would fire them. But they both withstood it. Shortly before the world war uncle Joseph died, and Papachen became sole owner. Then the war came, almost all Jews in Libau left the city and moved to inner Russia, partly to save what one could take along, partly to flee to the capital invested in Russian [127] banks and enterprises, partly due to forced evacuation of Jews from the border areas. Uncle Leopold moved to Riga, but Papachen stayed; the Germans came, and were greeted as liberators from the Russian domination, since they came a day before the forced evacuation of the Jews, and instead of them the Russian administration fled to the north. The Germans soon showed themselves in all their ostentation. Life was difficult during the occupation time. Papachen remained a Russian patriot and invested his earnings in czarist rubles. When these then dropped down to nothing, he invested in Reichsmark, and so he also lost this portion." BIRTH: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kenny Petersen. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ | Herzenberg, Leopold (I4043)
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| 5466 | 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: HL 106/068 shows b. Goldingen, d. 1940 in Libau, married. Worked for the firm, Nachman, in Libau. Alleestrasse, Libau. 2. Courland (Kurzeme in Latvian, Kurland in German) is the historically distinct area of modern day Latvia bounded by the Baltic Sea to the west, Lithuania to the south, and the Dvina River (now Daugava) to the North. Its historic capital was Mitau (now Jelgava). It had ice-free Baltic ports with commercial and strategic importance. At its height Courland was a prosperous and cultured German-speaking Duchy. Courland was a separate Gubernia (Province) of the Russian Empire from 1797-1918. 50-60% of the Jews living in Riga just north of Courland had family roots in Courland. The names of the various towns have changed now that the area is part of Latvia (new-old as of early 1900s): Aizpute-Hasenpoth Jelgava-Mitau Kuldiga-Goldingen Liepaja-Libau Piltene-Pilten Talsi-Talsen Ventspils-Windau 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: "The Generation of My Parents [78] My grandparents Naftali and Nese had four sons and six daughters: Leonhard, Joseph, Ignatz, Leopold, Sarah, Ernestine, Sophie, Fanny, Dora, and Lina. All four brothers lived in Libau... Uncle Ignatz died in Libau early in 1940. He worked at the Nachman firm in Libau from his apprenticeship until his death. He married late and remained childless. He had a small house on the Alleestrasse with a large orchard, was kind and deaf; we did not write each other, and relations with the parent's house were rare, [80] since the firms were in competition... ...The four brothers were all bald. They all had received a very poor cheder education. My father was the only one who could speak and write [83] German with no trouble, who had taught himself a remarkable education, who sometimes read a book or appreciated good music. Everything he knew of western and Jewish culture was entirely self-taught. The other three brothers remained at the point at which they had left the Cheder. They never left Libau and were very narrow-minded, and though they were my uncles, they and I did not have any contact areas. They never understood my student needs, and never helped me..." BIRTH: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kenny Petersen. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ | Herzenberg, Ignatz (I4042)
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| 5467 | 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: HL006a shows Agnes (Nese) b. Goldingen, Latvia, d. 6 Feb 1920, bur. at "Labue" Cemetery, m. 1885-1895. AF 005. "Lies buried in Libau cemetery." 2. Leonhard Herzenberg, who is the source of much of the Herzenberg information in this database is the grandson of Naphtali Herzenberg and Agnes Brenner. 3. Len Yodaiken notes Agnes b. 1835 and d. 1895, but he does not give any documentation for the same in his "The Herzenbergs of Piltene and Liepeja Latvia," 1 Jan 2000, copy in my possession - KP. 4. 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: "...My grandmother on father's side was born a Brenner. She had long been dead when I first became aware of the fact that she also had a name, and that her then youngest niece, the daughter of my cousin Julius, was named after her. She was named Agnes, but was called only Nese by the family. She was just "grandma" without a name. [70]. As far as I know the grandmother had two brothers, Julius who lived in Moscow, and of whom one spoke very little in the family, maybe he got baptized; and Nicholas who lived in Kharkov [Charkow]. I knew these brothers only from photos, but I met the wife of the Kharkovian in Kurland, and also the eldest daughter, highly educated, attractive people. I was very befriended with the only son of the Kharkover, Julius Brenner. He studied at the technical university in Dresden at the same time as I was studying in Freiberg. After the exam he went back to Russia, and had a position in Turkestan. He was the best, dearest, most unselfish friend, but writing-lazy like all Russians, so we lost contact and I have not heard anything from him since our separation in Saxony. [msp 71] Whether grandma had any more brothers I don't know, I knew a sister rather well, the aunt Goldingen in Libau, any other sisters I again know nothing of. Aunt Goldingen (my great-aunt) lived in Libau as a widow. By my time of awareness [meiner bewussten zeit] she already had three grownup daughters, and a son, Julius, who attended the gymnasium in Libau. The daughters, Rosa, Lina, and Ida appeared mostly in a group, so "Rosalinda" was praised. All three were very pretty, intelligent and very cultured ladies. They earned a living by giving private lessons in languages and music. All three played piano brilliantly, and nourished with this not only themselves and the old mother, but also the younger brother, a very good looking boy who graduated excellently from the gymnasium in Libau, who then boarded at his uncle Nicholas [msp 72] in Kharkov and studied medicine, which study he completed also with excellence. Aunt Goldingen also took young girls from the provinces as boarders. A house with many pretty young girls was an independent social center for all the youth of Libau. But it was remarkable that in spite of it "Rosalinda" stayed unmarried. For the bachelors who could be considered they were first beggar-poor (who from that time would have married without a dowry?) and those who would have ignored it would be scared off by the high intellectual level that reigned in the house. in short, the poor, dear, pretty, "Rosalinda" became spinsters. When the first world war, or rather its first phase, broke out in 1914, and the cruel evacuation to Russia of [73] the Kurland Jewry began, they did not wait until it was Libau's turn - though Libau turned out to be the only city that did not have a turn - but moved to their Uncle and brother to Kharkov. Ida died soon after the war, I don't know whether Rosa and Lina are still alive. As long as my father was alive he regularly sent food packages to Kharkov. Julius had obtained his MD in Kharkov, and had continued his education at various clinics in Germany and specialized in radiology. Every time that he stayed in Germany we would meet. In 1913 we were together in Hamburg for several months. We were closer than brothers often are. He went back to Kharkov where he opened his own radiology clinic which he led until the end of the war. He married the youngest daughter of his uncle Nicholas, his cousin. They had no children. As the war in Russia ended, and the Soviets [74] became rulers, his clinic was expropriated, and he was stuck into a hospital. He struggled with all his strength against work that was totally foreign to him, but it did not help. A few weeks later he died in the hospital as a victim of the spotted fever [fleck typhus] epidemic, which at that time snatched away thousands of doctors in Russia. A day after his death a daughter was born to him. He always remained a bright [lichte] memory for me. I never learned anything more about his family... ...The Generation of My Parents [78] My grandparents Naftali and Nese had four sons and six daughters: Leonhard, Joseph, Ignatz, Leopold, Sarah, Ernestine, Sophie, Fanny, Dora, and Lina. All four brothers lived in Libau. Uncle Joseph, who later became a business partner of my father's, married a Behrman, aunt Frieda. They had no children. He died of intestinal cancer shortly before the first world war. He did not get along well [79] with my father, but they were shackled together for many years by the Brothers Herzenberg firm. It did not help that the sisters in law got along even worse. In any case, to me he was more rude than friendly and my every try for a loan [pumpversuch] during my student time failed [schlug fehl]. Even once when he loaned me 10 mark for my return from Heidelberg to Libau, he insisted on my father paying him back immediately on his return. Uncle Ignatz died in Libau early in 1940. He worked at the Nachman firm in Libau from his apprenticeship until his death. He married late and remained childless. He had a small house on the Alleestrasse with a large orchard, was kind and deaf; we did not write each other, and relations with the parent's house were rare, [80] since the firms were in competition. The youngest, uncle Leopold, married in Minsk, while I was a student in Riga. Aunt Betty was less beautiful than able, German was difficult for her until the last. Uncle Leopold worked for the iron firm Samuel Michelson except for a short time when he was independent. He was always extremely able and diligent, he built up some wealth, had a nice house in the Thomasstrasse, with wonderful fruit and flower gardens. They had two children, Mascha and Kolja, the latter named after grandfather Naphtali (Nikolaus). Only the first letter is the same, but I doubt that the name Naphtali can still be used in western Europe, since it sounds just like the [81] naphthalene of moth-balls. Uncle Leopold and aunt Betty are still (April 1941) living in Libau, as well as Kolja, who works in the firm with his father. I don't know what became of Mascha. She was a pretty, clever, typically eastern Jewish girl; she married an eastern Jewish engineer-chemist Feodor Leszinsky whom she learned to know and love during her student time in Paris and Brussels. They had a daughter Claude. So Mascha ended up with the name of the polish princess Maria Lezinska, wife of King Ludwig the XV of France. Every time that they passed through the polish corridor on trips to Libau and showed the passport to the Polish officers, the latter were quite confused, since one could never know - who knows everything so well - that the thing went back 200 years. Leszinskys lived in Paris where old jewelry was melted and pure gold, silver,and platinum [msp 82] for jewelers were produced. I met him in 1930, at uncle Leopold and aunt Betty's silver wedding anniversary, when I was on vacation if Libau. He offered me a position which I did not accept. The things apparently went very wrong there, but I could not find out what was the matter. It seems that Leszinsky went out of the country, and Mascha with the child were to follow. I have heard nothing from them since. Aunt Betty and the other relatives in Libau sealed their lips air-tight, so I do not know how and when Mascha was surprised by the second world war. {Note added 21 June 42: Mascha went to Paris from Libau via Stockholm and London in August 39, and after a week to the United States, where her husband, Fedja had gone earlier. She wrote me in March 1942, they were then living in new York, he is employed by Philip Brothers. They changed the name, and are now called Leston. Uncle Leopold and aunt Betty were in the Libau ghetto, and no trace of Kolja, who had married a Lett}. The four brothers were all bald. They all had received a very poor cheder education. My father was the only one who could speak and write [83] German with no trouble, who had taught himself a remarkable education, who sometimes read a book or appreciated good music. Everything he knew of western and Jewish culture was entirely self-taught. The other three brothers remained at the point at which they had left the Cheder. They never left Libau and were very narrow-minded, and though they were my uncles, they and I did not have any contact areas. They never understood my student needs, and never helped me. Of the aunts I know even less, except for Fanny, of whom I write later. Aunt Sarah was married to Michael Friedmann in Sackenhausen. They had many children of whom I had only superficial knowledge. I only saw them two or three times, lastly when she was already a widow living in Riga and I visited her in 1930 [84]. She was a strong woman, a master at brewing Easter mead [ostermet]. That was brewed by every family and drunk on Easter. Where the Jews picked up this old German, or old Slavic home industry is not clear to me, but the mead was clear and golden. In Mitau there was a large mead brewery, Friedlander, and their mead at Easter was an unforgettable pleasure. Aunt Ernistine's first husband was Michael Bernitz, who was a widower with many Children. From this marriage came my cousins Julius, Hermann (Hemske), and Frieda. Uncle Bernitz, also a brewer, died young. Aunt Ernestine stayed with the younger children at Grandmother's in Goldingen, cousin Julius came to my father and was raised with me. He was a little [85] older than I, attended Blumenau's cheder, and then in 1895, when my father and uncle Joseph founded the firm Gebruder Herzenberg, he became an apprentice in the business. He stayed there a few more years after the death of my father with my brother George. He lived in our home, sharing my room until I left home in 1902. Soon after that my brother George drove him out of the business [herausgeekelt]. He had a small factory [industrie] making coconut mats [kokoslaufern] in Libau, which the Soviets left him in 1940 [die ihm die Soviets in 1940 belassen haben]. He had two children in his marriage, Mischa and Nancy. Mischa supposedly plays cello, of Nancy I know nothing. When cousin Hermann became older, he also came to Libau as an apprentice at Gebr. Herzenberg, and uncle Joseph took him into his house. Times there were not good for him. But he was so cheerful and imperturbable that he tolerated it very well. He emigrated to South Africa still before the first world war, [86] where he became fat and wealthy. His sister Frieda also followed him there, where, as far as I know, she is married and happy. Aunt Ernestine, in a second marriage, married a widower, Salmanssohn, with whom she had a son, whom I hardly knew. He worked in my father's business, and he was also driven out by my brother George after father died. I don't know what became of him. Aunt SOPHIE, in Paulshafen, was married with uncle Haase (whose first name I can't think of). I think I may have seen her once; we did not visit them although Paulshafen is close to Libau, on the coast, halfway to Windau, it is not on the main road to Goldingen. Uncle Haase was in Libau more often though, an attractive, tall [87], black-bearded man. Of their many children I somewhat knew only Elias, who married Cila Gerson, my cousin on mother's side. They live in South Africa ad have a smart son, Robert, but they are not doing well, since Elias has been suffering from a foot ailment that makes him unable to work. Aunt Fanny, who took over my care after the deaths of my mother and aunt Sophie Gerson (of whom I will say more), married Nathan Lowenstein, who died in 1940. They had a bargain shop [kramladen] and a cartage business [fuhrbetrieb]. They were well off. They had three sons. Since my parents did not get along with her, we rarely came together with the children, especially since they suffered from outspoken inferiority complexes [besonders da diese an ausgeschprochenen minderwertigkeitskomplexen litten]. The oldest son, Marie, lived in Riga; the second, Mischa in Libau [88]; the youngest, Adolph is a doctor who last lived in Paulshafen. Aunt Fanny still lives in Libau, but did not stay in touch with the children. Aunt Dora married Ezekiel Judelowitz in Mitau. He had a bargain shop there. That did not fit at all well with the nimbus of kingly business people of uncle Abraham and the Grand Duchess of Kurland, aunt Therese, so relations were tense or none. Uncle Keuchel, as cousins Runkel and Kunkel (see above under uncle Abraham) called him, seems to have been dead a long time, and aunt Dora still lives in Mitau. Aunt Lina married Hermann Weinberg in Riga. I still knew her as a very pretty girl. She had the best life of all the sisters. She has two sons and a daughter. She lived in rather good circumstances in Riga; how it goes now [89] under the Soviets, I don't know. My brother Erich in Riga does not worry [kumert sich nicht] about the family, so till now I was unable to find out anything." MARRIAGE: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kerry Petersen. BURIAL: 1. Research report dated 6 Jul 1997 from Latvian researcher Aleksandrs Feigmanis, Crestes 2-12, LV-1021, Riga, Latvia, to Harold Hodes of London, England (partial copy of eight pages in my possession). In one section he notes burials in Libau as follows: -Joseph Herzberg, died 29-4-1914. -Nesse Herzenberg, died 6-2-1920. -Sara-Haye Herzenberg, died 23-11-1923. -Leonhard Herzenberg, died 15-7-1932. -Leib Herzenberg (or Liba?), died 9-9-1926 SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ | Brenner, Agnes (I4039)
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| 5468 | 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: LA 010 shows Jossel or Josiph b. 26 Jun 1889 in Libau. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1900 US: Brooklyn, Kings, New York, p. 6 of 62, 128 Harrison Ave., family 59: Edward Herzenberg, Feb 1845, 55, md. 30 years, Rus Rus Rus, imm. 1899. Dora, wife, Mar 1850, 50, md. 30 yrs., 6 total children all living, Rus Rus Rus, imm. 1899. Yetta, dau., Aug 1878, 21, single, Rus Rus Rus, milliner, imm. 1899. Robert, son, Apr 1881, 19, single, Rus Rus Rus, imm. 1899. Joseph, son, Jul 1888, 11, Rus Rus Rus., imm. 1899. Linn, dau., 1892, 8, Rus Rus Rus, imm. 1899. Edward, nephew, Apr 1870, 30, single, Rus Rus Rus, imm. 1890, salesman. 2. Ancestry.com's "WWI Draft Registrations": Joseph Herzenberg, b. 15 Jul 1888 at Libau, Russia, residing in Sharon, Mercer Co., PA, responsible for mother, sister, wife, and three children, salesman for clothing store. | Herzenberg, Joseph or Jossel (I4019)
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| 5469 | 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: HL 102/023. 2. Sibling order within this family for Zippe, Hinde, and Chaie are total guesses. I assume though that they are arranged from oldest to youngest assuming Robert in his memoirs listed them by age. Birth date and place are estimate only. 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: "...Of the great aunts, the sisters of my grandfather Naftali I have no memory... Of the sisters of my grandfather Naftali, Zippe, Hinde-Leye, Chaie Gutte, I remember nothing. When I was at the wedding of my uncle Edward in January 1895 in Talsen, I may have seen them, but I am not sure... SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ | Herzenberg, Chaie Gutta (I3998)
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| 5470 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I3963)
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| 5471 | 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: HG016 shows Rahle or Rachel Freudberg d. Dec 1941. "Shot in either the nearby forest of Libau, in July or in Bikernicks Forest, Riga, Latvia in December 1941. MARRIAGE: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kerry Petersen. DEATH: 1. Http://www4.yadvashem.org Holocaust database: Rachel Hercenberg nee Friedberg born in Grobin, Latvia to Shnayer and Riva Leah. She was married to Yosef Yaacov Hercenberg. Prior to WWII she lived at Brivibas iela 5 (Alexanderstrasse) in Libau, Latvia. Rachel perished in the Shoah. She was a housewife. Website has photo of her. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted 18 Feb 1993 by her daughter Tauby Hercenberg Lewis residing at Rchov Eziongaber 3/7 Jerusalem, 97823. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Interested researcher: Binni Lewis 18 Aug 2007 | Friedberg or Freudberg, Rachel or Rakhel (I3956)
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| 5472 | 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: YL015 shows Joseph Offenbacher, b. 1876, md. to Flora Herzenberg, last residing at Moscow. BIOGRAPHY: 1. Two brothers, Wilhelm (or Vasily) and Joseph (or Ossep) Offenbacher married two cousins, Fanny and Flora Herzenberg. Acquaintance and marriage most likely was in St. Petersburg. Robert Herzenberg's memoirs below indicate two Offenbacher brothers had come to St. Petersburg - Wilhelm had a piano factory and presumably Joseph had the mirror factory. 2. The following undated paper was written late 1969 in Nice, France by Catherine Werblovsky Olympieff (also known as Ekaterina Werblovskaya Olympieva) at the request of Patrick Landau through his aunt Alice Nikitina. Patrick's father, Vladimir Landau, even though he was Catherine's cousin, had less knowledge on the family then Catherine. Catherine was the granddaughter of Edouard and Rebecca Herzenberg. The letter was written a couple of years before Catherine's death after she entered into an assisted care facility in Nice. The paper was recently found among personal items previously gathered about 1969 by her daughter Irene Nadia de Lanskoy Petersen. Portions of the letter were written in three languages: English, French, and Russian. Irene, in transcribing the letter, notes that the letter was hard to follow and to make sense of. Irene's transcription dated 31 Jul 2007 with her notes added in [ ]. "What concerns the father and mother of our mother's: Mother's father: Edouard Ocipovitch Herzenberg [or Gerzenberg] Edward son of Joseph Herzenberg born: in Mitava [or Mittau] not far ___, Baltic Provinces - not far from Riga. He died at 76 years of age (had diabetes and malaria) from lung congestion after flu. His wife was his cousin. Rebecca Herzenberg also married a first cousin. I am not sure of the name of her father; she died in Moscow when I was 6 years old (70 years ago). [Death would be approximately 1899?] They were probably married in Mitawa and came to Moscow young, because all their children were born in Moscow. The eldest 1) Elizabeth 2) Sonja [or Sonia] (Sofia) mother of Manja or Mania who now lives in Moscow, who had a sister Nadja or Nadia who was born in Moscow. Sonia's husband was Adolf Schneider - son of Aaron Schneider - who had 3 more sons: Nicolas, Alexander, Serge and a daughter Elizabeth Schneider. She got married with Martin Behr (English nationality); they had two children and lived in Moscow. Mrs. Elizabeth Behr died in London (after the Russian Revolution she lived in France, later in England.) Her brother Adolf Schneider was a brother-in-law of our mother's of course.) [This is a repeat of the above.] The Behrs had 2 children. Elisabeth Behr died in London (probably her husband Martin Behr died before.) Mrs. Behr's daughter Olga died in London about a year ago [1968-69?], her brother George Behr still lives in London is married (has 1 daughter who is married too and has 2 boys, 8 and 7. So my mother Elisabeth was the eldest daughter of Edward and Rebecca Herzenberg born in Moscow like her sister Sonia, the next sister Flora born in Moscow. Flora, married Joseph Offenbacher, had one son Lotar (my first cousin as well as yours). She, her husband, and son died in Germany during the war of Hitler (son Lothar). [Irene notes that another family account says that Lothar committed suicide on account of the war.] [His father] Joseph Offenbacher had an older brother Vasily [William or Wilhelm] Offenbacher who married a cousin of our mother's - Fanny, daughter of Abra[ha]m (whom all children of Edward Herzenberg used to call Uncle Abraham.) He was the husband of Grandfather Edward Herzenberg's sister Theresa. His family name was also like all: Herzenberg. Theresa Herzenberg had many children - daughter Fanny, sons Ludwig, Harry, and 2 other sons and another daughter Sophia married to another Herzenberg (all those marriages were between cousins) who had three children, Robby (Robert) who lives in Sweden and 2 daughters Clara and Roberta (died in Riga - Bolshevik Revolution). [I am not sure if Clara and Roberta are correct for this family grouping.] After Flora Herzenberg, the 4th daughter was my Aunt Anjuta [Anna Herzenberg-Landau]. Then there was another one Genga (Eugenie) married Harry Taube from Riga - were killed by Hitler's army. She was the 5th daughter of Edward Herzenberg. The 6th was Lilja [Lilia] (1st wife of Uncle Max Landau - died in Davos, Switzerland from TB.) Then was another daughter Milja, died very young (she was the 7th daughter). The youngest daughter Tonya [Tonia] died in Moscow. Then there were two brothers, the oldest Ivan (John) married a French young girl from Mussidan, Dordogne, France. She was daughter of the Mayor of that town. Died in the north of Russia where - she was sent sick and was sent with her to Mourmansk (north of Russia). Uncle Vanja's [Vania, Ivan, John all same name wife Lydia died there [note her maiden name was Lydie Buisson]. Uncle Vanja died too in Bolshevik Revolution. Their 3 children: Micha (Michel) died probably in Moscow; his brother Andrei (Andre) Herzenberg and Suzanne Hindzee (Herzenberg) - 1st husband (French) Volant. She has a daughter in Toronto married in Toronto (Alja [or Alice Nikitina] knew her) who has two children, boy and girl. The father's family name is A. [Albert?] Statter - wife Lydie (Suzanne's daughter) - son Albert. [Irene's note: last known address was 33 Stonegate Road, Toronto, Canada, M8Y-1V8; phone 416-251-6295.] There was yet other families related to us through our mother's. It was a well known dentist. His name was Kovarsky. His wife was the cousin of our mother's. They had a lot of children - 3 brothers Misha (Michael), Leva (Leon), 2 daughters Choura (Alexandra). Chura who now is same age as Suzanne [Herzenberg Hindzee] - the only one alive. I forget the name of the eldest brother deceased. Manja (Mania) in Moscow knows more about that family. What was the name of the mother cousin of our mother's-probably it was yet another of the Herzenberg family. As Alja [Alice Nikitina] will be going to Moscow she will be able to find out more form Manja [Mania]. Then there was yet another family related to the wife of our grandfather through the husband or wife Idelson. There was a girl Lisa Idelson and her brother. I think that Manja must know something about them. They lived in Moscow. I used to go see them with my mother when I was about 8 or 10 years old. Now George Behr has written from London thanking me for my sympathy condolences on account of the death of his sister Olga Behr. She must have been older than 78 years. he thought that his aunt on his father's side, Nina Karlovna died in Moscow, as well as his cousin Leija, but I think it is relatives on the side of his father Bahr, and the cousin is perhaps of the Schneider family (it is possible that the cousin is still living). All these people lived in Moscow. Now what concerns the Packschwer family. The one that came to see you with the Vietnamese wife has passed away. His name was Julien Packschwer born in Vitebesk, Russia. He was 72. His younger brother Saveijn (Sahva) engineer in London named himself Packshaw, died in England 3 weeks before Julien, leaving a widow (2nd marriage) and 2 children. It was the death of his younger brother that caused reaction on Julien Packshwer. He died 3 weeks after him. He was found on a street in Nice, France with a cerebral hemorrhage-fell in the street. Police took him to the hospital St. Rock where he died at 19 hours in the evening and remained in a coma. His car 2 CV (small) stayed in the parking where he had left it. It was only his Vietnamese wife [Mado] returning from Saigon 1 month after his death that was able to retrieve that car from the parking. Yet another day or two, it would have been impounded. But as it was the widow herself then came. They did not charge her anything. But as the car was her husband's-she has to wait by inheritance law to be able to sell it and divide up in 4 parts to his children. The eldest son of another marriage Leon is an eye doctor in Paris, then 3 other children. Oldest Robert in Montreal, CA; another son in ___ was in the navy for 3 years. The oldest was in the Air force, married a girl from Morocco - they are going to have a child soon. The daughter Irene married, has a little boy, the husband is serving in the military; they live in Cayrons near Vence, France in the Packshwer house. The widow/mother Mado inherited ¼ of the sum, the children ¾ divided in 4 for each of the 4 children. Through a real estate in Vence, Julien's house of 1000 sq. meters is worth 18 million francs. If the children keep the house, they will in turn need to give on fourth of the cost to the widow who also has the right to half of his monthly pension of 30,000 francs. She came to see me day before yesterday and told me all these details. So here you have it-the relatives. The mother of the Packshwer father was 1st cousin of our mother's through the daughter of the sister of our grandfather Edward Herzenberg maiden name Theresa Herzenberg died in Nice, born I think in Mitawa [Mitau], Baltic Provinces. She was buried with her husband in Nice at the Caucade cemetery. Now I add what George Behr wrote from London that his wife Janet has seen Aunt Anjuta [Anna Herzenberg] in Monte Carlo, then he wrote about his cousin in Moscow who he thinks has passed away (he is going to find out about it from Manja-he asked their address in Monaco). She was the daughter of the oldest sister Polina Aronovna of his mother. Here is what concerns that family... [Balance of letter missing]." 3. Manuscript in possession of Michael Landau of Monte Carlo as of 18 Sep 2023. Family history memories of Alice Landau also known as “Nikitina,” who was the sister of Vladimir Landau and the daughter of Anna Herzenberg. Translation is from French from two handwritten pages on one sheet of paper. Patrick Landau, Nikitina’s nephew, had asked her to write down what she recalled of the family history and descendants. The description is written after January 1970 because she writes that Constantin-Pierre died in January 1970. Editorial comments are [bracketed]. “[Page 1] My father’s side: The father of my father was called Adolphe and he was born I think at Czenstohova (Poland) in 1830; he married around 1953 [misstated for 1853] my grandmother, who was named Régine. They had 4 sons and one daughter. The eldest son (1855) was Julien (Julian) born in Czenstohova who married Fanny Schaskolski, born in Riga in 1863 [handwriting garbled, may be 1865]. They had 2 sons: The youngest one Constantin-Pierre, born in Petersburg in 1893, married in 1912 with Miss Banzer had a son Youri (George) born in 1914 who is married and lives in Toulouse [France]. He had 2 sons. Constantin-Pierre remarried to Miss Tronsevitch and again another time [his third]. He died in Belgium in January 1970. The first son of Julien, Theodor was born in 1890. He married a woman from Vienna in 1943 and had a daughter. Theodor died in 1965. The second son of Adolph, Gustave was born in Czenstohova and went to the USA before the war in 1914. He had 7 sons and one daughter. I know 3 sons: Adam was born in Warsaw in 1892, Rom[?] born in Warsaw in 1894 and Walter born in New York in 1906. I don’t know the others. The third son, my father Maximilian was born April 1st 1870 in Czenstohova and died in Odessa in 1919 (added in between lines). He married Anne Herzenberg in 1899, born in 1978 [miswritten, 1878] in Moscow and had a daughter Alice-Régine [Nikitina] born in 1900 February 21st and Vladimir born in 1902 March 29 both in St. Petersburg. Vladimir, your father, married in 1945 with Miss Janine Regnard born in 1916 in Paris and you were born at Boulogne s/Seine [Boulogne-sur-Seine] September 5, 1945. The 4th son of Adolph – Stanislas was born in 1876 at Lodz. He was married to Miss Lidia ? and had 3 sons: John born in 1905, Bronislav born in 1907 and Anton born in 1914. Stanislas and Lidia were killed in Poland. Their sons were living in France. The daughter of Adolph: Evelyn was born in 1878 at Lodz (Poland) and married a Russian general Avinovitzki in 1903. Both are dead, I don’t know where or when. The only living parent [relative] that I know of is Nicolas Landau, antiquary in Paris who is the son of my father’s cousin. He is 80 years old and I think he can give more information on the Landau family! My mother’s side: The father of my mother was named Edouard Herzenberg. He was born around 1845 and died in 1910 in Moscow. He was married, but I think the name of my grandmother was Herzenberg too. She died in 1904 in Moscow. They had 7 daughters and 2 sons: 1) Sophie, the eldest born in 1863, married had 2 daughters Marie and Nadia. Nadia is dead and Marie lives in Moscow. She is married and has a married daughter, who has a daughter. [Page 2] 2nd daughter Elizabeth born in 1865 in Moscow, married Adolph Werblovsky and had a daughter Catherine who married in 1913 Victor Buzkoy who died in England in 1945. Their son Arik was born in St. Petersburg in 1914, he is married to Julie and has a son and a daughter and lives in Malta. Catherine lives in Nice. Elisabeth died in Nice in 1950 and Adolph in 1938. 3rd daughter Hélène born in 1867 Moscow, married Ossip Offenbacher and had a son Lothar born in 1896. Hélène died in 1919 in Berlin and Ossip later. Lothar disappeared in Germany. 4th daughter Egenie [Eugenia] married Leon Taube from Riga and was born in 1876 in Moscow and died in 1930 in Moscow. No children. 5th daughter Lilia: born in 1877, died in 1897 in Davos. 6th daughter Anne: my mother born in 1878 married Maximillian Landau in 1898 and had 2 children Alice born on Feb. 21, 1900, and Vladimir March 29, 1902. Maximillian Landau died in Odessa in 1919 (January) and Anne died in 1961 in Monte-Carlo. 7th daughter Antoinette: born in 1885 and died in 1905. 1st son Ivan: born in 1870 married Lidia (French) in 1898 and had 3 children: Michel born in 1900, André born in 1901 and Susan born in 1903. Michel died in 1935, André lives in Moscow. Susan lives in Menton. Ivan died in Siberia in 1930 and Lidia too. André had a son and Susan married a Volant, a daughter Lidia married in Canada to an Austrian man. She has a son and daughter. 2nd son Paul: born in 1872 married to Natalie, one daughter. Lives in Moscow.” 4. 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: "...The oldest daughter FANNY married the Bavarian piano manufacturer Offennbacher, who had a factory in Petersburg. The Offenbachers come from Nurmberg-Furth, a second brother had a mirror factory in Petersburg. The other brothers stayed in Nurmberg. At the outbreak of the world war they were in Germany. Wilhelm Offenbacher was a Bavarian reserve officer and serves as a captain in some garrison. Fanny had two children, Sonja and Erich. Sonja married in Nurmberg and had a little daughter, her husband fell in the world war. Erich entered the war as a volunteer. A coincidence brought us together in Lida in 1917, after which we did not see each other for about 16 years. [51] He married a cousin in Nuremberg, and Sonja married a second time, this time a very orthodox Jew. When Hitler came to power Sonja and her family emigrated to Palestine. Erich committed suicide, and the elders, Fanny and Wilhelm Offenbacher wandered to Palestine to join Sonja, where they now live. Wilhelm had ended his 80th year before the journey, they live in Tel Aviv, Sonia has become a grandmother, and so Fanny is a great-grandmother. When they looked up my father [Papachen] in Libau ten years earlier, and Aunt Therese was still alive, none of us could have suspected that the few who were saved from perishing in Petersburg would perish in Germany and that Fanny's family would return to the land of our ancestors as old people. (Footnote: Fanny Offenbacher died at the end of 1941 in Tel Aviv.) A nephew of Wilhelm Offenbacher was driven to Bolivia by the Hitler storm, and now (1940) lives with wife and son in Tarija." 5. Business records from the St. Petersburg, Russia, Archives per hired researcher of Konnor Petersen. Research dated Oct. 2022. It shows a business tie with Pakschwer, Adolf Werblowsky, and the Offenbachers, all relatives of ours: Records group 586, inventory 1, volume 3. Volume about rent by A. Z. Werblowsky and L.Ya. Gertsenberg of a land plot on Yuzhnyy-Oleniy Ostrov (Southern Deer Island) in Petrozavodsk uezd of Olonets province for exploitation of [gipot] deposits Pages 1, 1 back of the page, 2. Contract with Partnership of mineral mill plant “A.Z. Werblowsky and Co.” on the one hand and A.A. Davidov, M.S. Pakshver, S.I. Littauer – hereinafter “Syndicate”. - Partnership grants Syndicate the right for exploration and examination of heavy spar (berite) on Yuzhnyy Oleniy Ostrov of Petrozavodsk uezd of Olonetsk province before 31 December 1911. Pages 3, 3 back of the page, 4, 4 back of the page, 5. 1913. Journal of Olonetsk Province Administration. Case at the request of the peasants of Kurgenits and Lakhty villages of Kizhnsky society of Velikogubsky volost about giving for rent a part of a land plot at the southern part of Olenyy Ostrov to Bavarian subject F. D. Offenbacher for the purpose of limestone development for the period of 12 years. Page 6. Is blank. Pages 7, 8. Power of attorney from Flora Offenbacher Werblowsky and Gertsenberg for the right to buy and rent land. November 1, 2017 [sic 1917] Page 2 Pages 9, 9 back of the page, 10, 10 back of the page. 1907. Conditions of contract between peasants and Offenbacher. Pages 11, 11 back of the page, 12, 12 back of the page, 13. Contract between Werblowsky and Gertsenberg on the one hand and Ioakinf Trok, Alexandr Ivanovich Timofeev and Vladimir Ivanovich Timofeev that the latter mentioned would rent mineral deposits for them in Arkhangelsk, Vologda and Olonets provinces. Pages 14-35 (back of the pages included). Contract of Offenbacher and peasants. Page 36. Power of attorney for the name of Werblowsky from the wife of hereditary noble woman Ekaterina Adolfovna Gudzko (Kudzko). BIRTH: 1. Location is per narrative above. Date is surmised as a possible match to a database on Worldconnect 4 Aug 2007 database ":1004099" by Andre Levy | Offenbacher, Joseph or Josef or Ocip (I3874)
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| 5473 | 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: YL015 shows Adolph Shneider, b. 1874, last living in Moscow, md. to Sonja Herzenberg. BIOGRAPHY: 1. Died in prison. His father was a builder. 2. The following undated paper was written late 1969 in Nice, France by Catherine Werblovsky Olympieff (also known as Ekaterina Werblovskaya Olympieva) at the request of Patrick Landau through his aunt Alice Nikitina. Patrick's father, Vladimir Landau, even though he was Catherine's cousin, had less knowledge on the family then Catherine. Catherine was the granddaughter of Edouard and Rebecca Herzenberg. The letter was written a couple of years before Catherine's death after she entered into an assisted care facility in Nice. The paper was recently found among personal items previously gathered about 1969 by her daughter Irene Nadia de Lanskoy Petersen. Portions of the letter were written in three languages: English, French, and Russian. Irene, in transcribing the letter, notes that the letter was hard to follow and to make sense of. Irene's transcription dated 31 Jul 2007 with her notes added in [ ]. "What concerns the father and mother of our mother's: Mother's father: Edouard Ocipovitch Herzenberg [or Gerzenberg] Edward son of Joseph Herzenberg born: in Mitava [or Mittau] not far ___, Baltic Provinces - not far from Riga. He died at 76 years of age (had diabetes and malaria) from lung congestion after flu. His wife was his cousin. Rebecca Herzenberg also married a first cousin. I am not sure of the name of her father; she died in Moscow when I was 6 years old (70 years ago). [Death would be approximately 1899?] They were probably married in Mitawa and came to Moscow young, because all their children were born in Moscow. The eldest 1) Elizabeth 2) Sonja [or Sonia] (Sofia) mother of Manja or Mania who now lives in Moscow, who had a sister Nadja or Nadia who was born in Moscow. Sonia's husband was Adolf Schneider - son of Aaron Schneider - who had 3 more sons: Nicolas, Alexander, Serge and a daughter Elizabeth Schneider. She got married with Martin Behr (English nationality); they had two children and lived in Moscow. Mrs. Elizabeth Behr died in London (after the Russian Revolution she lived in France, later in England.) Her brother Adolf Schneider was a brother-in-law of our mother's of course.) [This is a repeat of the above.] The Behrs had 2 children. Elisabeth Behr died in London (probably her husband Martin Behr died before.) Mrs. Behr's daughter Olga died in London about a year ago [1968-69?], her brother George Behr still lives in London is married (has 1 daughter who is married too and has 2 boys, 8 and 7. So my mother Elisabeth was the eldest daughter of Edward and Rebecca Herzenberg born in Moscow like her sister Sonia, the next sister Flora born in Moscow. Flora, married Joseph Offenbacher, had one son Lotar (my first cousin as well as yours). She, her husband, and son died in Germany during the war of Hitler (son Lothar). [Irene notes that another family account says that Lothar committed suicide on account of the war.] [His father] Joseph Offenbacher had an older brother Vasily [William or Wilhelm] Offenbacher who married a cousin of our mother's - Fanny, daughter of Abra[ha]m (whom all children of Edward Herzenberg used to call Uncle Abraham.) He was the husband of Grandfather Edward Herzenberg's sister Theresa. His family name was also like all: Herzenberg. Theresa Herzenberg had many children - daughter Fanny, sons Ludwig, Harry, and 2 other sons and another daughter Sophia married to another Herzenberg (all those marriages were between cousins) who had three children, Robby (Robert) who lives in Sweden and 2 daughters Clara and Roberta (died in Riga - Bolshevik Revolution). [I am not sure if Clara and Roberta are correct for this family grouping.] After Flora Herzenberg, the 4th daughter was my Aunt Anjuta [Anna Herzenberg-Landau]. Then there was another one Genga (Eugenie) married Harry Taube from Riga - were killed by Hitler's army. She was the 5th daughter of Edward Herzenberg. The 6th was Lilja [Lilia] (1st wife of Uncle Max Landau - died in Davos, Switzerland from TB.) Then was another daughter Milja, died very young (she was the 7th daughter). The youngest daughter Tonya [Tonia] died in Moscow. Then there were two brothers, the oldest Ivan (John) married a French young girl from Mussidan, Dordogne, France. She was daughter of the Mayor of that town. Died in the north of Russia where - she was sent sick and was sent with her to Mourmansk (north of Russia). Uncle Vanja's [Vania, Ivan, John all same name wife Lydia died there [note her maiden name was Lydie Buisson]. Uncle Vanja died too in Bolshevik Revolution. Their 3 children: Micha (Michel) died probably in Moscow; his brother Andrei (Andre) Herzenberg and Suzanne Hindzee (Herzenberg) - 1st husband (French) Volant. She has a daughter in Toronto married in Toronto (Alja [or Alice Nikitina] knew her) who has two children, boy and girl. The father's family name is A. [Albert?] Statter - wife Lydie (Suzanne's daughter) - son Albert. [Irene's note: last known address was 33 Stonegate Road, Toronto, Canada, M8Y-1V8; phone 416-251-6295.] There was yet other families related to us through our mother's. It was a well known dentist. His name was Kovarsky. His wife was the cousin of our mother's. They had a lot of children - 3 brothers Misha (Michael), Leva (Leon), 2 daughters Choura (Alexandra). Chura who now is same age as Suzanne [Herzenberg Hindzee] - the only one alive. I forget the name of the eldest brother deceased. Manja (Mania) in Moscow knows more about that family. What was the name of the mother cousin of our mother's-probably it was yet another of the Herzenberg family. As Alja [Alice Nikitina] will be going to Moscow she will be able to find out more form Manja [Mania]. Then there was yet another family related to the wife of our grandfather through the husband or wife Idelson. There was a girl Lisa Idelson and her brother. I think that Manja must know something about them. They lived in Moscow. I used to go see them with my mother when I was about 8 or 10 years old. Now George Behr has written from London thanking me for my sympathy condolences on account of the death of his sister Olga Behr. She must have been older than 78 years. he thought that his aunt on his father's side, Nina Karlovna died in Moscow, as well as his cousin Leija, but I think it is relatives on the side of his father Bahr, and the cousin is perhaps of the Schneider family (it is possible that the cousin is still living). All these people lived in Moscow. Now what concerns the Packschwer family. The one that came to see you with the Vietnamese wife has passed away. His name was Julien Packschwer born in Vitebesk, Russia. He was 72. His younger brother Saveijn (Sahva) engineer in London named himself Packshaw, died in England 3 weeks before Julien, leaving a widow (2nd marriage) and 2 children. It was the death of his younger brother that caused reaction on Julien Packshwer. He died 3 weeks after him. He was found on a street in Nice, France with a cerebral hemorrhage-fell in the street. Police took him to the hospital St. Rock where he died at 19 hours in the evening and remained in a coma. His car 2 CV (small) stayed in the parking where he had left it. It was only his Vietnamese wife [Mado] returning from Saigon 1 month after his death that was able to retrieve that car from the parking. Yet another day or two, it would have been impounded. But as it was the widow herself then came. They did not charge her anything. But as the car was her husband's-she has to wait by inheritance law to be able to sell it and divide up in 4 parts to his children. The eldest son of another marriage Leon is an eye doctor in Paris, then 3 other children. Oldest Robert in Montreal, CA; another son in ___ was in the navy for 3 years. The oldest was in the Air force, married a girl from Morocco - they are going to have a child soon. The daughter Irene married, has a little boy, the husband is serving in the military; they live in Cayrons near Vence, France in the Packshwer house. The widow/mother Mado inherited ¼ of the sum, the children ¾ divided in 4 for each of the 4 children. Through a real estate in Vence, Julien's house of 1000 sq. meters is worth 18 million francs. If the children keep the house, they will in turn need to give on fourth of the cost to the widow who also has the right to half of his monthly pension of 30,000 francs. She came to see me day before yesterday and told me all these details. So here you have it-the relatives. The mother of the Packshwer father was 1st cousin of our mother's through the daughter of the sister of our grandfather Edward Herzenberg maiden name Theresa Herzenberg died in Nice, born I think in Mitawa [Mitau], Baltic Provinces. She was buried with her husband in Nice at the Caucade cemetery. Now I add what George Behr wrote from London that his wife Janet has seen Aunt Anjuta [Anna Herzenberg] in Monte Carlo, then he wrote about his cousin in Moscow who he thinks has passed away (he is going to find out about it from Manja-he asked their address in Monaco). She was the daughter of the oldest sister Polina Aronovna of his mother. Here is what concerns that family... [Balance of letter missing]." BIOGRAPHY: Died in prison. His father was a builder. | Shneider or Schneider, Adolphe or Adolf (I3446)
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| 5474 | 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: HL shows Roma b. 1916, d. 1983 both in, USA. Spouse Eisenstein. 2. Spouse from Ancestry.com's "US Public Records" shows Milton O. Eisenstein, b. 1905, living with Roma H., b. 1916, and Stuart O. b. 1949 all in Miami-Dade County, Florida, 100 Bayview Dr. in North Miami Beach, 33160, phone 305-940-8108. DEATH: 1. Social Security Death Index: Roma Eisenstein, ssn 107-16-7542 iss. NY bef. 1951, b. 22 Apr 1916, d. Jun 1983 with last res. at Miami, Dade, Florida. 2. Florida Death Index": Roma Eisenstein, b. 22 Apr 1916, d. 12 Jn 1983 in Dade County. | Herzenberg, Roma (I3406)
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| 5475 | 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: HW shows Cecilia Odes b. 20 Mar 1892, d. 30 May 1939, bur. Brixton Cemetery, SA, gr. RF6. YL009 shows d. 1937. CR shows d. 30 May 1937. [Note: Peter seems to have misquoted Len Yodaiken, who in his paid research report "The Herzenbergs of Piltene and Liepaja Latvia," 1 Jan 2000, p. 12 (not 9) shows Celia's death in 1939.] 2. Censuses: 1920 US: Bronx, Bronx, New York, p. 48 of 59, 15 Jan 1920, 367 184th St., house 65, family 729: Rudolf Herzenberg, 32, imm. 1914, alien, Kurland Kurland Kurland, Ins. Co. Agent. Cecelia, wife, 28, imm. 1914, alien, Kur Kur Kur. Theresa, dau., 6, imm. 1914, alien, So. Africa, Kur Kur. Milton, son, 2-11/12, NY Kur Kur. 1930 US: Bronx, Bronx, New York, p. 43 of 47, 24 Apr, 3357 Fenton, house 245, family 319: Rudolf Herzenberg, rents, $80, 43, md. at age 25, Rus Rus Rus, language spoken before coming to US: German, insurance asst. Manager, imm. 1924. Celia, wife, 36, md. at age 18, b. South Africa, Eng Eng, Imm. 1914, naturalized. Theresa, dau., 16, SA Rus SA, imm. 1914, naturalized, bank clerk. Melton, son, 13, NY Rus SA. 3. Ancestry.com's "NY Passenger Lists": Rudolf Herzenberg, arrived 11 May 1914 on the ship Caronia from Liverpool, England, b. at Libau, Russia, Hebrew ethnicity, 26, storekeeper in South Africa, last residence was Johannesburg, SA, destination is Chicago, Illinois to brother-in-law's Sam Odes, 1408 Ashland Ave, Chicago, 5'-8" ht., dark complexion, brown eyes and hair. Cecilia, wife, 23, from South Africa, 5'-2" ht., dk. complexion, brown hair, gray eyes, b. "Plimpian?," Russia. Theresa, dau., 5, from South Africa, b. Johannesburg. 4. Email dated 18 Mar 2010 5. Email dated 4 Dec 2011 from Lucille Maitino, granddau. of Rudolf Herzenberg "My Mom had told me many stories of Cecelia Dorothea (Odes) Herzenberg and how she died of a burst appendix when my Mom was only 23. Cecelia (Odes) Herzenberg died when she was only 45 (5/30/1937) and her husband Rudolf died 3 weeks later of a broken heart. (6/22/1937). I know my Grandfather Rudolf had 2 brothers and 2 sisters, Herman, Leo, Bertha and Clara. I know my Grandfather Rudolf's father was Isaac, and that Isaac had a brother Daniel. I know Daniel had a son Israel and that Israel had 2 sons and 2 daughters, Sammy, Allen, Sybil and Irene. I know many of the cousins from these." BIRTH: 1. Cecilia's brother Samuel Odes shows a birthplace of Lithuania in the 1930 US Census for Chicago. On his WWI Draft Registration he notes birth as Russia. The 1920 US Census shows Lettig, Russia with "Prus" added in. On his 1900 arrival at the Port of New York, it shows him as Russian. Cecilia in 1920 US Census indicates Kurland and in 1930 indicates South Africa. Her port arrival shows undecipherable place in Russia. I use the information for Russia given by her granddaughter in the notes below under death. 2. Plungė, Lithuania per Michael Brassem, who sent a message on FamilySearch: I think I have solved the place of birth for Cecelia. Check her brother Louis's death notice and JewishGen birth records for Odes. I'm still looking hard at the Bernitz/Daneman/Dannemann links in with the Herzenberg family. They seem to be very much inter-linked. MARRIAGE: 1. Date and place are unsubstantiated guesses only by Kerry Petersen. DEATH: 1. Email dated 8 Apr 2010 from granddaughter Lucille Maitino "Rudolf b. 7/3/1887 Libau, Latvia, d. 6/22/1937 Johannesurg. Cecelia b. 3/20/1892 Plumyon, Russia, d. 5/30/1937 Johannesburg. Cecelia Odes's parents: father, Moisha Odes b. Plumyon, Russia, d. Johannesburg; mother, Rachael Odes b. Plumyon, Russia, d. Johannesburg. Last time we were [in Johannesburg], I was about 6 and my sister 10. She remembers putting pebbles on the headstones of Rudolf and Cecelia. | Odes, Cecelia Dorothea (I873)
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| 5476 | 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. Peter notes "Chiat" as first husband to Annie. I am not sure if Chiat is a first name or a surname. | Chiat (I4337)
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| 5477 | 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. Source is LA for Latvian Archives. In regards to this individual: Name variations: Elkan, Elchanan b. Jossel, Elkann, Elhanan. LA 009 shows b. 1850, md. Dreyer. LA 014. 2. Archival Research Paper about Herzenberg Family prepared for Harold Hodes 23 Mar 1999 and is report no. Nr. 3-H-2962, by Latvijas Valsts Vestures Arhivs (Latvian National Archives), Slokas iela 16, Riga, LV-1007, copy of only page 1 in my possession but evidently other pages exist: "In reply to your application please be informed that the recruits enlistment registers of the Jewish families belonging to the Jewish community in Pilten for the years 1842, 1848, 1854, 1871 (see app. No. 1-4), census lists of the Jewish families belonging to Pilten for the years 1898, 1899 as well as the birth records of the Jewish community in Libau (now Liepaja) for the years 1836-1853, 1854, 1857-1905, marriage and death recods of the same community for years 1854-1905, as available at our archives, contain the following information: Rabbi Jossel (or Josiph) Herzenberg was a son of Elias Herzenberg from Pilten. He was born in ca 1815-1816, possible in Pilten. Since our archives keep birth, marriage and death records of the Jewish communites for the time period from 1854, when they started to be kept officially, it is impossible to confirm the dates fevore 1854. Jossel's father - a Rabbi Elias - son of Joseph Herzenberg, born in ca 1774, died in 1842. Jossel's mother - Chiene Herzenberg (maiden name not stated), born in ca 1780. Jossel's wife - Dine (Dinne, Diene) née Iddelson (birth date is unknown). They had children: -son Hirsh, born in ca 1836, -son Lämmchen, born in ca 1843, -son Elkan (Elkann), born in ca 1850, -daughter Sheine, born on August 31 of 1857 in Libau (see App. No. 6), -daughter Meriam, born on June 15 of 1859 in Libau (see App. No. 7). Elkan - son of Jossel Herzenberg married Doris (Dobra, Doba) daughter of Aizik Dreyer, born in ca 1852. The marriage records of the Jewish community in Libau for the years 1870-1875 do not contain information on their marriage. The... [end of 1st page and my copy]" 3. Censuses: 1900 US: Brooklyn, Kings, New York, p. 6 of 62, 128 Harrison Ave., family 59: Edward Herzenberg, Feb 1845, 55, md. 30 years, Rus Rus Rus, imm. 1899. Dora, wife, Mar 1850, 50, md. 30 yrs., 6 total children all living, Rus Rus Rus, imm. 1899. Yetta, dau., Aug 1878, 21, single, Rus Rus Rus, milliner, imm. 1899. Robert, son, Apr 1881, 19, single, Rus Rus Rus, imm. 1899. Joseph, son, Jul 1888, 11, Rus Rus Rus., imm. 1899. Linn, dau., 1892, 8, Rus Rus Rus, imm. 1899. Edward, nephew, Apr 1870, 30, single, Rus Rus Rus, imm. 1890, salesman. BIRTH: 1. Latvia was considered part of Russian at the time of the 1900 census. MARRIAGE: 1. Date and place are estimates only by Kerry Petersen. BURIAL: 1. Website for "Liepaja Jewish Cemetery Book, 1909-1941," accessed 4 Aug 2010 shows a Elkanan Izik (Janis) Herzenberg, d. 1 Mar 1933 (3 Adar 5693). Not enough information to determine if this is the same person or not. No burial record for anyone resembling his wife. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ | Herzenberg, Edward or Elias or Elkan (I3981)
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| 5478 | 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. Source is LA for Latvian Archives. In regards to this individual: Name variations: Sheine (Sheina), Chana, Gana, Hanna. LA 009 shows b. 31 Aug 1857 in Libau, md. 1. Elkishik and 2. Levitan. 2. Archival Research Paper about Herzenberg Family prepared for Harold Hodes 23 Mar 1999 and is report no. Nr. 3-H-2962, by Latvijas Valsts Vestures Arhivs (Latvian National Archives), Slokas iela 16, Riga, LV-1007, copy of only page 1 in my possession but evidently other pages exist: "In reply to your application please be informed that the recruits enlistment registers of the Jewish families belonging to the Jewish community in Pilten for the years 1842, 1848, 1854, 1871 (see app. No. 1-4), census lists of the Jewish families belonging to Pilten for the years 1898, 1899 as well as the birth records of the Jewish community in Libau (now Liepaja) for the years 1836-1853, 1854, 1857-1905, marriage and death recods of the same community for years 1854-1905, as available at our archives, contain the following information: Rabbi Jossel (or Josiph) Herzenberg was a son of Elias Herzenberg from Pilten. He was born in ca 1815-1816, possible in Pilten. Since our archives keep birth, marriage and death records of the Jewish communites for the time period from 1854, when they started to be kept officially, it is impossible to confirm the dates fevore 1854. Jossel's father - a Rabbi Elias - son of Joseph Herzenberg, born in ca 1774, died in 1842. Jossel's mother - Chiene Herzenberg (maiden name not stated), born in ca 1780. Jossel's wife - Dine (Dinne, Diene) née Iddelson (birth date is unknown). They had children: -son Hirsh, born in ca 1836, -son Lämmchen, born in ca 1843, -son Elkan (Elkann), born in ca 1850, -daughter Sheine, born on August 31 of 1857 in Libau (see App. No. 6), -daughter Meriam, born on June 15 of 1859 in Libau (see App. No. 7). Elkan - son of Jossel Herzenberg married Doris (Dobra, Doba) daughter of Aizik Dreyer, born in ca 1852. The marriage records of the Jewish community in Libau for the years 1870-1875 do not contain information on their marriage. The... [end of 1st page and my copy]" 3. Len Yodaiken in his paid research report "The Herzenbergs of Piltene and Liepaja Latvia," 1 Jan 2000, names four children of Aaron Berman and Ghitta Levitan: Sara, George, Charles, and Becky. 4. Updated research provided by Konnor Petersen 5 Nov 2023 with references to LDS FamilySearch: I made a few adjustments to the following in Family Search. Added children to the relationship of: Sheina or Chana or Hanna Herzenberg - KGCM-D9C Moses Elkishik - 9V5G-MXG + Vulf + Lea + Josif + Dinia Rakhil The relationship between Sheina or Chana or Hanna Herzenberg - KGCM-D9C and Levitan - KGCM-6Y2 doesn't exist in the records. There is a Leizer Levitan married to a Khana/Hana/Anna Gertzenberg. But the birthdate we have for Sheina or Chana or Hanna Herzenberg - KGCM-D9C, doesn't match the earliest birth listed for this couple, which is 1863. But Sheina or Chana or Hanna Hertzenberg - KGCM-D9C was born in 1857. The notes include a record for Gita Levitan, daughter of Sheina or Chana or Hanna Herzenberg, who married Aaron Berman, daughter of a Leizer Levitan (There are two Leizer Levitans in the records - one married to Sara and one to Khanna, so there is no proof of relationship to Levitan - KGCM-6Y2) Gita Levitan was married in 1894 at age 24, so born 1870, which is only 13 years after 1857. Again, a problem for Sheina or Chana or Hanna Herzenberg's birth year of 1857, or her relationship to Levitan. The records that I have seen show no confusion between the two names Khana and Sheine. I believe that they are not equivalent. Based on this, I believe that Sheina or Chana or Hanna Hertzenberg Hertzenberg - KGCM-D9C should be rendered Sheine Hertzenberg. I've created a new Khana Herzenberg - GGSB-D2Z who is married to Leizer Levitan - KGCM-6Y2. I've added several children along with a few of the children's spouses and children. + Tauba + Spouse and children + Roza + Spouse and children + Genna + Behr + Dvora + Leib SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ | Herzenberg, Sheina (I3982)
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| 5479 | 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. Sources are LA for Latvian Archives and FA for Aleksandrs Feigmanis (Latvian researcher hired by Harold Hodes). In regards to this individual: Name variations: Hisch. LA 009/012 shows b. 1836 in Libau, d. in Libau. FA 002 shows b. 1836. 2. The Latvian Archives is online and I have reviewed all Registers for Pilten. Registers are in German and I indicate what I don't understand. I extracted all Herzenbergs of which the following excerpts apply to this family: " -Image 177. Has two columns of ages after the name with the first being 1850 and the second 1854; presumably if missing in the second column then probably deceased in the interim. I believe the Archives indicate they had a 1851 revision list, which may be what they call the first column; however, it appears more like 1850 in reality age-wise. List # 156, Family #49: -210 Jossel Elias Herzenberg, 33-1/2, 37-1/2 -his wife Dinne -211 son Hirsch, 14, 18 -212 son Lemchen Elias, 7, 11 -Image 260. Has two columns of ages after the name with the first being 1858 and the second 1871. List #217, Family #45: -188 Jossel Elias Herzenberg, 41-1/2, 54-1/2 [Has extensive notes needing translation.] -his wife Diene -189 son Lämmchen, 15, 28 -190 son Elkann, 8, 21" 3. Archival Research Paper about Herzenberg Family prepared for Harold Hodes 23 Mar 1999 and is report no. Nr. 3-H-2962, by Latvijas Valsts Vestures Arhivs (Latvian National Archives), Slokas iela 16, Riga, LV-1007, copy of only page 1 in my possession but evidently other pages exist: "In reply to your application please be informed that the recruits enlistment registers of the Jewish families belonging to the Jewish community in Pilten for the years 1842, 1848, 1854, 1871 (see app. No. 1-4), census lists of the Jewish families belonging to Pilten for the years 1898, 1899 as well as the birth records of the Jewish community in Libau (now Liepaja) for the years 1836-1853, 1854, 1857-1905, marriage and death recods of the same community for years 1854-1905, as available at our archives, contain the following information: Rabbi Jossel (or Josiph) Herzenberg was a son of Elias Herzenberg from Pilten. He was born in ca 1815-1816, possible in Pilten. Since our archives keep birth, marriage and death records of the Jewish communites for the time period from 1854, when they started to be kept officially, it is impossible to confirm the dates fevore 1854. Jossel's father - a Rabbi Elias - son of Joseph Herzenberg, born in ca 1774, died in 1842. Jossel's mother - Chiene Herzenberg (maiden name not stated), born in ca 1780. Jossel's wife - Dine (Dinne, Diene) née Iddelson (birth date is unknown). They had children: -son Hirsh, born in ca 1836, -son Lämmchen, born in ca 1843, -son Elkan (Elkann), born in ca 1850, -daughter Sheine, born on August 31 of 1857 in Libau (see App. No. 6), -daughter Meriam, born on June 15 of 1859 in Libau (see App. No. 7). Elkan - son of Jossel Herzenberg married Doris (Dobra, Doba) daughter of Aizik Dreyer, born in ca 1852. The marriage records of the Jewish community in Libau for the years 1870-1875 do not contain information on their marriage. The... [end of 1st page and my copy]" SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ | Herzenberg, Hirsch (I3980)
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| 5480 | 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. Sources are LA for Latvian Archives and FA for Aleksandrs Feigmanis (Latvian researcher hired by Harold Hodes). In regards to this individual: Name variations: Lämmchen, Lemchen, Lemchen Elias. LA 009 shows b. 1843 in Libau. LA 012/014 shows b. 1843. FA002 shows b. 1843. Peter also notes: Lemchen Elias - Initially this name seems inconsistent with other siblings when considering "extrapolation," as it suggests he may have been the son of Elias H. He is entered here as the son of Josiph. There are precedents elsewhere showing joint names and suggest this is such a case. Due to the many Lemchens in the family at that time, this would have seemed an obvious choice of names for one of Joseph H's sons. Besides, all the LA documents support the name, his birth date, whether as Lemchen, Lämmchen, or Lemchen Elias H. 2. The Latvian Archives is online and I have reviewed all Registers for Pilten. Registers are in German and I indicate what I don't understand. I extracted all Herzenbergs of which the following excerpts apply to this family: " -Image 177. Has two columns of ages after the name with the first being 1850 and the second 1854; presumably if missing in the second column then probably deceased in the interim. I believe the Archives indicates they had a 1851 revision list, which may be what they call the first column; however, it appears more like 1850 in reality age-wise. List # 156, Family #49: -210 Jossel Elias Herzenberg, 33-1/2, 37-1/2 -his wife Dinne -211 son Hirsch, 14, 18 -212 son Lemchen Elias, 7, 11 -Image 260. Has two columns of ages after the name with the first being 1858 and the second 1871. List #217, Family #45: -188 Jossel Elias Herzenberg, 41-1/2, 54-1/2 [Has extensive notes needing translation.] -his wife Diene -189 son Lämmchen, 15, 28 -190 son Elkann, 8, 21" 3. Ancestry.com's "Latvia: Courland Registers and Family Lists, 1845-1874" in partnership with JewishGen lists the following from Piltene. The information below fits the age of Lemchen except it is reported he was in Piltene whereas one source Peter uses above shows him born in Liepaja. I suspect the correct interpretation is that later he moved to Liepaja, but was born in Piltene and lived there until at least 1871. His father and mother are in the same registration (see their notes): A. Lämme Herzenberg, age 28 in 1871, b. abt 1843, registration town Piltene, Recruit's Enlistment register, Fond #630, family number 54, Oklad (tax reference) # 230. 4. Archival Research Paper about Herzenberg Family prepared for Harold Hodes 23 Mar 1999 and is report no. Nr. 3-H-2962, by Latvijas Valsts Vestures Arhivs (Latvian National Archives), Slokas iela 16, Riga, LV-1007, copy of only page 1 in my possession but evidently other pages exist: "In reply to your application please be informed that the recruits enlistment registers of the Jewish families belonging to the Jewish community in Pilten for the years 1842, 1848, 1854, 1871 (see app. No. 1-4), census lists of the Jewish families belonging to Pilten for the years 1898, 1899 as well as the birth records of the Jewish community in Libau (now Liepaja) for the years 1836-1853, 1854, 1857-1905, marriage and death recods of the same community for years 1854-1905, as available at our archives, contain the following information: Rabbi Jossel (or Josiph) Herzenberg was a son of Elias Herzenberg from Pilten. He was born in ca 1815-1816, possible in Pilten. Since our archives keep birth, marriage and death records of the Jewish communites for the time period from 1854, when they started to be kept officially, it is impossible to confirm the dates fevore 1854. Jossel's father - a Rabbi Elias - son of Joseph Herzenberg, born in ca 1774, died in 1842. Jossel's mother - Chiene Herzenberg (maiden name not stated), born in ca 1780. Jossel's wife - Dine (Dinne, Diene) née Iddelson (birth date is unknown). They had children: -son Hirsh, born in ca 1836, -son Lämmchen, born in ca 1843, -son Elkan (Elkann), born in ca 1850, -daughter Sheine, born on August 31 of 1857 in Libau (see App. No. 6), -daughter Meriam, born on June 15 of 1859 in Libau (see App. No. 7). Elkan - son of Jossel Herzenberg married Doris (Dobra, Doba) daughter of Aizik Dreyer, born in ca 1852. The marriage records of the Jewish community in Libau for the years 1870-1875 do not contain information on their marriage. The... [end of 1st page and my copy]" SOURCES_MISC: 1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/ | Herzenberg, Lemchen Elias (I3979)
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| 5481 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website of Roy L. Hales "William Clinch (Our Ancestor) (3 Jan 1703 Bicknor - 9 Feb 1769, Stockbury) married Ann Knight on October 21, 1728. In 1744, William inherited the farm in Deans Bottom and also rented tenement #7 in Stockbury. In his will William left the farm to his son Thomas Clinch, on the condition that he buy out his brothers William and John. Mary and Sarah were each given £15. As both Ann and Elizabeth had married, but were now deceased, William gave their husbands (Stephen Hales & Thomas Fuller, respectively) 10 shillings. As you can see in his will (below), William Clinch was not able to sign his name. (He left his mark). Yet he was a prominent figure in Stockbury and one of the 7 allowed to vote when Kent chose two representatives to go to Parliament. The image to the left is from the election held on Pennenden Heath, in Maidstone, on May 1 and 2, 1754. There were three candidates. Lewis Watson and Robert Fairfax were elected. [Transcription of image: "Stockbury Thomas Nicholls, Stockbury, b. & l., his own. William Clinch, Bredgar, ditto, ditto Will. Jumper, Esq., Stockbury, ditto, Will. Broad. Thomas Redman, ditto, ditto, John Waters. James Rayner, ditto, ditto, his own. Walter Smith, ditto, ditto, ditto. George Erll, Lenham, ditto, John Wells."] [Transcription of image of will: "In the Name of God Amen. I William Clinch of the parish of Stockbury in the County of Kent Yeoman being weake in boddey but of a sound and perfect understanding and memorey praised by all mightey God for the Same I do make publish and declear this my Last Will and Testament in maner and forme folowing / that is to Say first and princepaley I Recommend my sole into the hands of Allmighty God who gave it to me / and my bodey to the Earth from whence it was taken when God Shall be pleased to take my Life from me / and my buril to be decent wihout pomp or State, at the discretion of my dear Childrine and as to Such worldly Goods as it hath pleas'd God to bless me with I Give and dispose of in maner and forme folowing, that is to Say I Give to my daughter Mary now the wife of Tho's Hales fifteen pounds, and I give to my daughter Sarey now the wife of Benj'n Banner fifteen pounds / and I Give to Steven Hales ten shillings / and I Give to James Fuller ten Shillings / allto be paid at the End of one hole yeare after my deceses by my Son Thomas Clinch whome I make Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament / and after payment of debts, Legerses, funerell Expences and Charge of proving this my last Will and Testament and all other Charges then to have a true and pertickler Inventorey and Aprisement to be made of all my Goods, Chattels, household, forneytire, wearing aprill, personall estate Beddey money and Effex whatsoever, and to be divided betwene my three Sons / John Clinch, William Clinch, and Thomas Clinch / but and allso I give and desire that Thomas Shall take to himself ten pounds over his Equell Sheear and he Shall Continue in the farme and pay his two Brothers John and William thier parts in five Equell payments in yearley and every Year till the time is Expired begining at one years end after my Desease. I hereby Revoke all former Wills and Testaments by me made at aney time heretofore, in witness whereof I the said William Clinch the testater have to this my last Will an Testament conaind in one Sheat of paper Set and a fixt my hand Seal this ninth day of Janauary in the yeare of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixtey Nine. William Clinch his (X) mark Sined sealed pulcied and deleard by the Said William clinch the Testater as and for hi slast Will an testament in the presants of Us the sitnesses here under wrightin. Thos. Wyles, Robert Terry, Ann X Terrey"] Their children: John Clinch (c 16 Feb 1728/29 - May 1798, Stockbury) married Mary Tollast in Bicknor, 7 Jan 1759 [typo]. All of their children were christened in Stockbury: Elizabeth (7 Jan 1759); John (3 May 1761) - died in Hartlip 7 June 1845); Mary (1 May 1763); William (19 Aug 1764); Thomas 20 July 1766); Mary (1 May 1768) married Stephen Wood in Bredgar on 25 July 1797; James (5 Feb 1769) married Sarah Chapman in Bredgar on July 19 1801; David (7 July 1771 - 10 April 1778); Benjamin (19 July 1774) Ann Clinch (Our Ancestor) (c 17[typo] December 13, 1729 - buried Oct 1, 1765 Stockbury) Elizabeth Clinch (c Sept 29 1732, Stockbury - before 1769) married Thomas [typo: should be James per the will of William Clinch] Fuller William Clinch (c 2 Oct 1735 - d. 1808, Stockbury) married Ann Vi[n]son in Stockbury on 19 October 1768. Their first child, Elizabeth, was christened in Stockbury on 12 March 1769. His father died that year and, as specified in the will, Thomas up William's share in the farm. William and Ann Clinch started christening their children in Hartlip after that: William Jones (30 Aug 13[7]3), John (8 Nov 1775); George (1 Jan 1779); Richard (27 June 1782). Mary Clinch (c July 9, 1738, Stockbury, Kent; d. October 30, 1770, Frinsted) married Thomas Hales Margaret Clinch (c Sept 21, 1740 - buried August 9, 1741 Stockbury) James Clinch (c September 17, 1742 - buried March 23, 1748/49 Stockbury) Sarah Clinch ... ( Abt. 1746; d. June 23, 1798 Stockbury) married Benjamin Banner Thomas Clinch (c September 14 [sic; should be 18], 1748 buried April 1820) married Mary Pain, in Stockbury, on 30 May 1774. After his father died, Thomas became one of Stockbury's electors. He was the owner/farmer of two properties within the parish and, as of 1782, one of the two assessors for the parish rates. Children: Thomas (3 Oct 1779, Stockbury); Elizabeth (21 July 1782, Stockbury) married Edward Filmer in Stockbury 18 Oct 1803; Sarah (4 July 1784, Stockbury); William (5 Oct 1786, Stockbury); Fanny (1 Feb 1789, Stockbury); Jane (30 Oct 1791, Stockbury); James (23 Feb 1794, Stockbury); Henrietta (25 Dec 1795, Stockbury) James Clinch (c 18 Sept 1748 - buried March 1749/50 Stockbury)" CHRISTENING: 1. Extraction of the family of William Clinch and Ann Knight from the Stockbury Parish Records (Parish Records FHL film 1473718, it. 2; Bishop's Transcripts FHL film 1737092, it. #3, and Archdeacon's Transcripts FHL film 1752235, #2 -- Note all films should be consulted for research in Stockbury because some are missing pages that others are not): -15 Oct 1774, Ann Clinch, wife of William, bur. -9 Feb 1779, William Clinch, Snr., bur. -16 Feb 1728/9, John Clinch s/o Will: and Ann, bap.; 9 May 1798, John Clinch bur. -13 Dec 1730, Ann Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap.; 1 Oct 1765, Ann Hales, wife of Stephen, bur. -No Elizabeth listed bapt. in 1730. -24 Sep 1732, Elizabeth Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap. -12 Oct 1735, William Clinch s/o William and Ann, bap.; 1 Oct 1809, William Clinch bur. -9 Jul 1738, Mary Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap. -21 Sep 1740, Margaret Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap.; 9 Aug 1741, Margaret Clinch d/o Willm. and Ann, bur. -17 Oct 1742, James Clinch s/o Will'm and Ann, bap.; 27 Mar 1750, James Clinch s/o William and Ann, bur. -No Sarah listed bapt. in 1744-1746; Sarah Banner, bur. 12 Feb 1808. -18 Sep 1748, Thomas Clinch s/o William and Ann, bap.; Thomas Clinch, bur. March 24, 1820, aged 72 years. Conclusions: 1. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no record of Sarah's baptism in the estimated time period of 1744 to 1746. 2. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no evidence that there were two different James Clinches in this family. Some would have us believe that the first James bapt. 17 Oct 1742 was bur. 23 Mar 1748/1749 and the second James was baptized abt 1750 and bur. 27 Mar 1750. What we can confirm is the first baptism and the second burial making these two James actually just one person. Additionally, the burial record calls James as a son and not an infant of his parents. 3. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no evidence that there were two different Elizabeth Clinches in this family. Some would have us believe that the first Elizabeth was bapt. 13 Dec 1730, the same day as Ann, and that this Elizabeth must have died before 1732 when another Elizabeth is christened into this family. There was only one that is correct is the latter one. The original Parish Record shows the entry in 1730 as Elizabeth which was then crossed out and corrected to say Ann. The Bishop's Transcript picked up Elizabeth and was not also corrected. The Archdeacon's Transcript is missing that year. BURIAL: 1. See notes with christening. | Clinch, James (I1232)
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| 5482 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website of Roy L. Hales "William Clinch (Our Ancestor) (3 Jan 1703 Bicknor - 9 Feb 1769, Stockbury) married Ann Knight on October 21, 1728. In 1744, William inherited the farm in Deans Bottom and also rented tenement #7 in Stockbury. In his will William left the farm to his son Thomas Clinch, on the condition that he buy out his brothers William and John. Mary and Sarah were each given £15. As both Ann and Elizabeth had married, but were now deceased, William gave their husbands (Stephen Hales & Thomas Fuller, respectively) 10 shillings. As you can see in his will (below), William Clinch was not able to sign his name. (He left his mark). Yet he was a prominent figure in Stockbury and one of the 7 allowed to vote when Kent chose two representatives to go to Parliament. The image to the left is from the election held on Pennenden Heath, in Maidstone, on May 1 and 2, 1754. There were three candidates. Lewis Watson and Robert Fairfax were elected. [Transcription of image: "Stockbury Thomas Nicholls, Stockbury, b. & l., his own. William Clinch, Bredgar, ditto, ditto Will. Jumper, Esq., Stockbury, ditto, Will. Broad. Thomas Redman, ditto, ditto, John Waters. James Rayner, ditto, ditto, his own. Walter Smith, ditto, ditto, ditto. George Erll, Lenham, ditto, John Wells."] [Transcription of image of will: "In the Name of God Amen. I William Clinch of the parish of Stockbury in the County of Kent Yeoman being weake in boddey but of a sound and perfect understanding and memorey praised by all mightey God for the Same I do make publish and declear this my Last Will and Testament in maner and forme folowing / that is to Say first and princepaley I Recommend my sole into the hands of Allmighty God who gave it to me / and my bodey to the Earth from whence it was taken when God Shall be pleased to take my Life from me / and my buril to be decent wihout pomp or State, at the discretion of my dear Childrine and as to Such worldly Goods as it hath pleas'd God to bless me with I Give and dispose of in maner and forme folowing, that is to Say I Give to my daughter Mary now the wife of Tho's Hales fifteen pounds, and I give to my daughter Sarey now the wife of Benj'n Banner fifteen pounds / and I Give to Steven Hales ten shillings / and I Give to James Fuller ten Shillings / allto be paid at the End of one hole yeare after my deceses by my Son Thomas Clinch whome I make Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament / and after payment of debts, Legerses, funerell Expences and Charge of proving this my last Will and Testament and all other Charges then to have a true and pertickler Inventorey and Aprisement to be made of all my Goods, Chattels, household, forneytire, wearing aprill, personall estate Beddey money and Effex whatsoever, and to be divided betwene my three Sons / John Clinch, William Clinch, and Thomas Clinch / but and allso I give and desire that Thomas Shall take to himself ten pounds over his Equell Sheear and he Shall Continue in the farme and pay his two Brothers John and William thier parts in five Equell payments in yearley and every Year till the time is Expired begining at one years end after my Desease. I hereby Revoke all former Wills and Testaments by me made at aney time heretofore, in witness whereof I the said William Clinch the testater have to this my last Will an Testament conaind in one Sheat of paper Set and a fixt my hand Seal this ninth day of Janauary in the yeare of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixtey Nine. William Clinch his (X) mark Sined sealed pulcied and deleard by the Said William clinch the Testater as and for hi slast Will an testament in the presants of Us the sitnesses here under wrightin. Thos. Wyles, Robert Terry, Ann X Terrey"] Their children: John Clinch (c 16 Feb 1728/29 - May 1798, Stockbury) married Mary Tollast in Bicknor, 7 Jan 1759 [typo]. All of their children were christened in Stockbury: Elizabeth (7 Jan 1759); John (3 May 1761) - died in Hartlip 7 June 1845); Mary (1 May 1763); William (19 Aug 1764); Thomas 20 July 1766); Mary (1 May 1768) married Stephen Wood in Bredgar on 25 July 1797; James (5 Feb 1769) married Sarah Chapman in Bredgar on July 19 1801; David (7 July 1771 - 10 April 1778); Benjamin (19 July 1774) Ann Clinch (Our Ancestor) (c 17[typo] December 13, 1729 - buried Oct 1, 1765 Stockbury) Elizabeth Clinch (c Sept 29 1732, Stockbury - before 1769) married Thomas [typo: should be James per the will of William Clinch] Fuller William Clinch (c 2 Oct 1735 - d. 1808, Stockbury) married Ann Vi[n]son in Stockbury on 19 October 1768. Their first child, Elizabeth, was christened in Stockbury on 12 March 1769. His father died that year and, as specified in the will, Thomas up William's share in the farm. William and Ann Clinch started christening their children in Hartlip after that: William Jones (30 Aug 13[7]3), John (8 Nov 1775); George (1 Jan 1779); Richard (27 June 1782). Mary Clinch (c July 9, 1738, Stockbury, Kent; d. October 30, 1770, Frinsted) married Thomas Hales Margaret Clinch (c Sept 21, 1740 - buried August 9, 1741 Stockbury) James Clinch (c September 17, 1742 - buried March 23, 1748/49 Stockbury) Sarah Clinch ... ( Abt. 1746; d. June 23, 1798 Stockbury) married Benjamin Banner Thomas Clinch (c September 14 [sic; should be 18], 1748 buried April 1820) married Mary Pain, in Stockbury, on 30 May 1774. After his father died, Thomas became one of Stockbury's electors. He was the owner/farmer of two properties within the parish and, as of 1782, one of the two assessors for the parish rates. Children: Thomas (3 Oct 1779, Stockbury); Elizabeth (21 July 1782, Stockbury) married Edward Filmer in Stockbury 18 Oct 1803; Sarah (4 July 1784, Stockbury); William (5 Oct 1786, Stockbury); Fanny (1 Feb 1789, Stockbury); Jane (30 Oct 1791, Stockbury); James (23 Feb 1794, Stockbury); Henrietta (25 Dec 1795, Stockbury) James Clinch (c 18 Sept 1748 - buried March 1749/50 Stockbury)" CHRISTENING: 1. Extraction of the family of William Clinch and Ann Knight from the Stockbury Parish Records (Parish Records FHL film 1473718, it. 2; Bishop's Transcripts FHL film 1737092, it. #3, and Archdeacon's Transcripts FHL film 1752235, #2 -- Note all films should be consulted for research in Stockbury because some are missing pages that others are not): -15 Oct 1774, Ann Clinch, wife of William, bur. -9 Feb 1779, William Clinch, Snr., bur. -16 Feb 1728/9, John Clinch s/o Will: and Ann, bap.; 9 May 1798, John Clinch bur. -13 Dec 1730, Ann Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap.; 1 Oct 1765, Ann Hales, wife of Stephen, bur. -No Elizabeth listed bapt. in 1730. -24 Sep 1732, Elizabeth Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap. -12 Oct 1735, William Clinch s/o William and Ann, bap.; 1 Oct 1809, William Clinch bur. -9 Jul 1738, Mary Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap. -21 Sep 1740, Margaret Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap.; 9 Aug 1741, Margaret Clinch d/o Willm. and Ann, bur. -17 Oct 1742, James Clinch s/o Will'm and Ann, bap.; 27 Mar 1750, James Clinch s/o William and Ann, bur. -No Sarah listed bapt. in 1744-1746; Sarah Banner, bur. 12 Feb 1808. -18 Sep 1748, Thomas Clinch s/o William and Ann, bap.; Thomas Clinch, bur. March 24, 1820, aged 72 years. Conclusions: 1. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no record of Sarah's baptism in the estimated time period of 1744 to 1746. 2. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no evidence that there were two different James Clinches in this family. Some would have us believe that the first James bapt. 17 Oct 1742 was bur. 23 Mar 1748/1749 and the second James was baptized abt 1750 and bur. 27 Mar 1750. What we can confirm is the first baptism and the second burial making these two James actually just one person. Additionally, the burial record calls James as a son and not an infant of his parents. 3. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no evidence that there were two different Elizabeth Clinches in this family. Some would have us believe that the first Elizabeth was bapt. 13 Dec 1730, the same day as Ann, and that this Elizabeth must have died before 1732 when another Elizabeth is christened into this family. There was only one that is correct is the latter one. The original Parish Record shows the entry in 1730 as Elizabeth which was then crossed out and corrected to say Ann. The Bishop's Transcript picked up Elizabeth and was not also corrected. The Archdeacon's Transcript is missing that year. | Clinch, Margaret (I1217)
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| 5483 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website of Roy L. Hales "William Clinch (Our Ancestor) (3 Jan 1703 Bicknor - 9 Feb 1769, Stockbury) married Ann Knight on October 21, 1728. In 1744, William inherited the farm in Deans Bottom and also rented tenement #7 in Stockbury. In his will William left the farm to his son Thomas Clinch, on the condition that he buy out his brothers William and John. Mary and Sarah were each given £15. As both Ann and Elizabeth had married, but were now deceased, William gave their husbands (Stephen Hales & Thomas Fuller, respectively) 10 shillings. As you can see in his will (below), William Clinch was not able to sign his name. (He left his mark). Yet he was a prominent figure in Stockbury and one of the 7 allowed to vote when Kent chose two representatives to go to Parliament. The image to the left is from the election held on Pennenden Heath, in Maidstone, on May 1 and 2, 1754. There were three candidates. Lewis Watson and Robert Fairfax were elected. [Transcription of image: "Stockbury Thomas Nicholls, Stockbury, b. & l., his own. William Clinch, Bredgar, ditto, ditto Will. Jumper, Esq., Stockbury, ditto, Will. Broad. Thomas Redman, ditto, ditto, John Waters. James Rayner, ditto, ditto, his own. Walter Smith, ditto, ditto, ditto. George Erll, Lenham, ditto, John Wells."] [Transcription of image of will: "In the Name of God Amen. I William Clinch of the parish of Stockbury in the County of Kent Yeoman being weake in boddey but of a sound and perfect understanding and memorey praised by all mightey God for the Same I do make publish and declear this my Last Will and Testament in maner and forme folowing / that is to Say first and princepaley I Recommend my sole into the hands of Allmighty God who gave it to me / and my bodey to the Earth from whence it was taken when God Shall be pleased to take my Life from me / and my buril to be decent wihout pomp or State, at the discretion of my dear Childrine and as to Such worldly Goods as it hath pleas'd God to bless me with I Give and dispose of in maner and forme folowing, that is to Say I Give to my daughter Mary now the wife of Tho's Hales fifteen pounds, and I give to my daughter Sarey now the wife of Benj'n Banner fifteen pounds / and I Give to Steven Hales ten shillings / and I Give to James Fuller ten Shillings / allto be paid at the End of one hole yeare after my deceses by my Son Thomas Clinch whome I make Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament / and after payment of debts, Legerses, funerell Expences and Charge of proving this my last Will and Testament and all other Charges then to have a true and pertickler Inventorey and Aprisement to be made of all my Goods, Chattels, household, forneytire, wearing aprill, personall estate Beddey money and Effex whatsoever, and to be divided betwene my three Sons / John Clinch, William Clinch, and Thomas Clinch / but and allso I give and desire that Thomas Shall take to himself ten pounds over his Equell Sheear and he Shall Continue in the farme and pay his two Brothers John and William thier parts in five Equell payments in yearley and every Year till the time is Expired begining at one years end after my Desease. I hereby Revoke all former Wills and Testaments by me made at aney time heretofore, in witness whereof I the said William Clinch the testater have to this my last Will an Testament conaind in one Sheat of paper Set and a fixt my hand Seal this ninth day of Janauary in the yeare of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixtey Nine. William Clinch his (X) mark Sined sealed pulcied and deleard by the Said William clinch the Testater as and for hi slast Will an testament in the presants of Us the sitnesses here under wrightin. Thos. Wyles, Robert Terry, Ann X Terrey"] Their children: John Clinch (c 16 Feb 1728/29 - May 1798, Stockbury) married Mary Tollast in Bicknor, 7 Jan 1759 [typo]. All of their children were christened in Stockbury: Elizabeth (7 Jan 1759); John (3 May 1761) - died in Hartlip 7 June 1845); Mary (1 May 1763); William (19 Aug 1764); Thomas 20 July 1766); Mary (1 May 1768) married Stephen Wood in Bredgar on 25 July 1797; James (5 Feb 1769) married Sarah Chapman in Bredgar on July 19 1801; David (7 July 1771 - 10 April 1778); Benjamin (19 July 1774) Ann Clinch (Our Ancestor) (c 17[typo] December 13, 1729 - buried Oct 1, 1765 Stockbury) Elizabeth Clinch (c Sept 29 1732, Stockbury - before 1769) married Thomas [typo: should be James per the will of William Clinch] Fuller William Clinch (c 2 Oct 1735 - d. 1808, Stockbury) married Ann Vi[n]son in Stockbury on 19 October 1768. Their first child, Elizabeth, was christened in Stockbury on 12 March 1769. His father died that year and, as specified in the will, Thomas up William's share in the farm. William and Ann Clinch started christening their children in Hartlip after that: William Jones (30 Aug 13[7]3), John (8 Nov 1775); George (1 Jan 1779); Richard (27 June 1782). Mary Clinch (c July 9, 1738, Stockbury, Kent; d. October 30, 1770, Frinsted) married Thomas Hales Margaret Clinch (c Sept 21, 1740 - buried August 9, 1741 Stockbury) James Clinch (c September 17, 1742 - buried March 23, 1748/49 Stockbury) Sarah Clinch ... ( Abt. 1746; d. June 23, 1798 Stockbury) married Benjamin Banner Thomas Clinch (c September 14 [sic; should be 18], 1748 buried April 1820) married Mary Pain, in Stockbury, on 30 May 1774. After his father died, Thomas became one of Stockbury's electors. He was the owner/farmer of two properties within the parish and, as of 1782, one of the two assessors for the parish rates. Children: Thomas (3 Oct 1779, Stockbury); Elizabeth (21 July 1782, Stockbury) married Edward Filmer in Stockbury 18 Oct 1803; Sarah (4 July 1784, Stockbury); William (5 Oct 1786, Stockbury); Fanny (1 Feb 1789, Stockbury); Jane (30 Oct 1791, Stockbury); James (23 Feb 1794, Stockbury); Henrietta (25 Dec 1795, Stockbury) James Clinch (c 18 Sept 1748 - buried March 1749/50 Stockbury)" 2. Website of Roy L. Hales "Benjamin Bannar Our Ancestor (1738-Dec 8, 1808) married Sarah Clinch (1742- Feb 1810) on 4 Apr 1768. The bride's fathers, William Clinch, and Benjamin's brother John Clinch [typo for Bannar] were witnesses. Benjamin and Sarah both lost their fathers in 1768. Benjamin's died a little more than a week before their wedding and William Clinch two months after it. As you can see from the will above, Benjamin and his brother John were to care for their youngest sister Rebekkah. She married John Featherstone, the last witness to that will, on July 2, 1770. He was a smallholder with a house Bredgar, and additional land in Stockbury, who had been fined £10 for poaching in 1762. (Helen Allinson, Bredgar, p 59). Rebecca gave birth to their only child, in Bredgar on 25 Aug 1771. The baby died and, on November 18, 1771, so did Rebekkah. Featherstone was sent to the prison hulk "Caphias" eight years later. A "single woman" by the name of Ann Williamson declared she was the father of her two children. John denied this, but according to the Bastardy Act of 1733, her word was sufficient proof. The court ordered provide a weekly maintenance of 1 shilling, 6 pence. John Featherstone refused, preferring imprisonment to providing for her. He gave his house and lands to his younger brother Stephen, on condition that he took in their mother and gave her £10. Then John Featherstone went off to the hulk. He was never heard from again. (Allinson, pp 58, 59) The 1778 assessment for repairs to St Mary Magdalene church, in Stockbury, includes 2/- to Benjamin Bannar Benjamin Bannar renting three parcels in South Green during 1781, the assessments totalled that year was £8, 12 shillings. At the time of his death, in 1808, Benjamin owned, or rented, 110 acres in South Green, a tenement in Pett's farm, 42 acres in Bredgar, 10 acres of woodland in Borden's wood," 4 acres of meadowland called Anne's Field. He was also Stockbury's the parish Church warden in 1778, 1786, 1789, 1803-5. As you can see on the left, Benjamin Banner was one of the eleven Stockbury freeholders allowed to participate in "the Poll for Knights of the Shire, to Represent the County of Kent in Parliament." The electors gathered on Pennenden Heath, in Maidstone, on June 28-30, 1790. Benjamin was one of those who voted on the first day. There were three candidates, only two of which could represent the county. Sir Edward Knatchbull and Filmer Holywood were elected. The last election Benjamin could have voted in took place in 1806, when Knatchbull and William Holywood were sent to parliament. [Website has referenced image.] Sarah Quaif[sic: typo for Clinch] died in 1808 and Benjamin followed her a little more than a year later. Their tombstone says: "Sacred to the Memory of Sarah Wife of Benjamin Banner of this parish Who died on 6th February 1808 Aged 66 Years Also the above Benjamin Banner Who died on 5th of December 1810 Aged 70 Years" Children: John Bannar (c 20 May 1769 - Feb 1810) - biography follows Ann Bannar (c 23 Sept 1770-14 May 1777) Sarah Bannar (1 May 1773-25 Aug 1773) Benjamin Bannar (28 Aug 1774-26 Oct 1774) Mary Bannar (2 May 1776-15 May 1777) Tylden Bannar (c April 1779-6 July 1829) married Ann. church warden 1811. Elizabeth Bannar (c 14 April 1782) Rebecca Bannar (c 30 Jan 1784) married William Rayner on 11 Dec 1807 Richard Bannar (1790) married Frances Goodwin on 18 May, 1812" CHRISTENING: 1. Extraction of the family of William Clinch and Ann Knight from the Stockbury Parish Records (Parish Records FHL film 1473718, it. 2; Bishop's Transcripts FHL film 1737092, it. #3, and Archdeacon's Transcripts FHL film 1752235, #2 -- Note all films should be consulted for research in Stockbury because some are missing pages that others are not): -15 Oct 1774, Ann Clinch, wife of William, bur. -9 Feb 1779, William Clinch, Snr., bur. -16 Feb 1728/9, John Clinch s/o Will: and Ann, bap.; 9 May 1798, John Clinch bur. -13 Dec 1730, Ann Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap.; 1 Oct 1765, Ann Hales, wife of Stephen, bur. -No Elizabeth listed bapt. in 1730. -24 Sep 1732, Elizabeth Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap. -12 Oct 1735, William Clinch s/o William and Ann, bap.; 1 Oct 1809, William Clinch bur. -9 Jul 1738, Mary Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap. -21 Sep 1740, Margaret Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap.; 9 Aug 1741, Margaret Clinch d/o Willm. and Ann, bur. -17 Oct 1742, James Clinch s/o Will'm and Ann, bap.; 27 Mar 1750, James Clinch s/o William and Ann, bur. -No Sarah listed bapt. in 1744-1746; Sarah Banner, bur. 12 Feb 1808. -18 Sep 1748, Thomas Clinch s/o William and Ann, bap.; Thomas Clinch, bur. March 24, 1820, aged 72 years. Conclusions: 1. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no record of Sarah's baptism in the estimated time period of 1744 to 1746. 2. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no evidence that there were two different James Clinches in this family. Some would have us believe that the first James bapt. 17 Oct 1742 was bur. 23 Mar 1748/1749 and the second James was baptized abt 1750 and bur. 27 Mar 1750. What we can confirm is the first baptism and the second burial making these two James actually just one person. Additionally, the burial record calls James as a son and not an infant of his parents. 3. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no evidence that there were two different Elizabeth Clinches in this family. Some would have us believe that the first Elizabeth was bapt. 13 Dec 1730, the same day as Ann, and that this Elizabeth must have died before 1732 when another Elizabeth is christened into this family. There was only one that is correct is the latter one. The original Parish Record shows the entry in 1730 as Elizabeth which was then crossed out and corrected to say Ann. The Bishop's Transcript picked up Elizabeth and was not also corrected. The Archdeacon's Transcript is missing that year. MARRIAGE: 1. Stockbury Church Records: Benjamin Bannor and Sarah Clinch, botp, marr. 4 Apr 1768 by banns with WIlliam Clinch and John Bannor as witnesses. DEATH: 1. Tombstone inscription from FHL book 942.23/S7 V3s "St. Mary Magdalene Stockbury Monumental Inscriptions." Note is appears the reported ages are a bit loose since if they were correct, their births would conflict with siblings whose christening dates are established in the Stockbury Church records. Interestingly the christenings for both of them were not recorded even though their siblings were: "Sacred to the Memory of Sarah Wife of Benjamin Banner of this Parish who died 6th February 1808 Aged 66 years Also the above Benjamin Banner Who died the 5th of December 1808 Aged 70 years" BURIAL: 1. Internet Find My Past's "Kent Burials Transcriptions": Sarah Banner, bur. 12 Feb 1808 at Stockbury, Kent, England. Stockbury Parish record FHL film 1473718, it. 2 confirms this same date. | Clinch, Sarah (I1214)
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| 5484 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website: Www.sampubco.com/sills/ny/nyontario01: Ontario County, NY, Will Testators, Residence, County #, Vol. #, and Page #: Briggs, Nathan; Canandaigua; NY-35-A-49. (1830-1836) 2. Appears to be Nathan Brigg's grandfather: Website: Www.genealogy of newengland.com/sjc: Nathan Briggs, b. 31 Mar 1727 at Berkley, Bristol, Massachusetts, d. 9 Apr 1813 at Ontario Co., NY. Parents are David Briggs and Sarah Babbitt. Marriage to Mary Talbot 7 Dec 1751 at Berkley, Bristol, MA. Mary was born 22 Mar 1724/25 to Josiah Talbot and Hannah Read. Six children born from 1753 to 1765 all in Dighton, Bristol, Mass. (Children and birthdates are listed.) Note: Nathan had a son named Zenas Briggs, b. 30 Jan 1753 at Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts. He married Ruth Codding. They have 5 sons all born in Bristol Co., Mass., including the eldest who dies in Ontario Co., NY. Some Worldconnect sites show this Nathan, but they can only state that he married a wife named Mary ____. This fits with Mary "Polly" Gillett. Nathan and Mary have four children beginning in 1811 of whom the youngest is Ruth born in 1818 with whom we find Mary Briggs in the 1850 census. 3. The book: "History of Ontario Co., NY," 1878, pgs. 114-120: History of Canandaigua: "On the northeast corner of lot No. 74, north of the present school-house, lived the pioneer tavern-keeper, Seth Holcomb, who came out in 1792, was made the recipient of various offices, and became a public man. Nathan Briggs succeeded to the place, and there resided for some time." 4. 1830 US Census for Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, p. 47 of 62: Nathan Briggs: males 0-1-1-1-0-0-1(40-50); females 0-0-1-1-0-0-0-1(50-60) 5. "Marriage and Death Notices from Early Geneva Newspapers," from the "Geneva Gazette": 11 Aug 1830: In Canandaigua, Capt. Nathan Briggs, 46. | Briggs, Nathan (I2606)
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| 5485 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. While researching in England June 2009 at Heddon-on-the-Wall (where I found the tombstone of Thomas Charlton and Elizabeth Ferguson), I met a local resident with the surname Charlton who is a descendant through this John. He put me in touch with his brother Norman Charlton They also indicated that they believe Thomas' father was another Thomas Charlton. I have never heard that and and have asked them for more information on that as well. 2. Search of 1881 British Census for John Charlton 10 years either side of 1816 produced many hits for Northumberland and Durham counties but information is too sketchy to use. No success in using the combination of children and dates provided by Norman Charlton per the note above. 3. Reviewed Ancestry.com 23 Nov 2002. | Charlton, John (I2554)
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| 5486 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Widow of Lt. William Palmer. Third husband: John Bowers. Parents: James Feake and Audrey Compton. 2. "Nicholas Knapp Genealogy," compiled by Alfred Averill Knapp, M.D. "This Genealogy of the Descendants of Nicholas Knapp, first found mentioned at Watertown, Massachusetts in 1630, is the result of the work and research of many individuals. The four principal collectors of data were Charles Ruggles Knapp, Henry Eno Knapp, Ezra Fred Knapp and the author, Alfred Averill Knapp, but they were assisted through correspondence by a large number of individuals who furnished much valuable family and local information...": "Ruth, b. 1-6-1640/41. m. 9 or 11-20-1657, Joseph Ferris, son of Jeffrey Ferris. Joseph b. 1638. d. 1699. They moved to Stamford, Conn. in 1646. He was made Proprietor at Greenwich, Conn. 2-5-1664. Jeffrey Ferris was made Freeman at Watertown, Mass. 5-6-1635. Moved to Stamford in 1640. d. 5-31-1666. (See Ferris Genealogy.)... The executors of Joseph Ferris's estate were his brother Peter and son-in-law, Samuel Peck, in 1699. He left his lands in Horseneck to sons John and James. His lands on Cos Cob Neck to Moses, Benjamin and Caleb. Sons Joseph and Joshua and dau. Ruth Peck, "Lidia Runolds" and Hannah were mentioned. Probably Hannah was not yet m. Jeffrey Ferris came to the part of Stamford that later became Greenwich. He m. 1st (name unknown). She was mother of all his children. m. 2nd Susannah, widow of Robert Lockwood. d. 1666. m. 3rd Judith (Judy) Feake Palmer, who m. after Jeffrey's death, ___ Bowers, erroneously sometimes called Burns. Jeffrey's only dau. m. Jonathan Lockwood, son of Robert and Susannah. There were 4 Ferris sons- John of Westchester, Peter of Stamford, Joseph and James of Greenwich. Both Peter and Joseph left widows named Ruth, and it was Peter's widow who m. John Clapp, not Joseph's." Jeffry Ferris was b. in Leicestershire, England about 1610 and came to America about 1634. His widow, Susannah, had a dau. Mary by first marriage perhaps - perhaps by second." 3. This individual mentioned in the following article about Robert Feake per "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III: "Robert Feake... Birth: About 1602, son of James and Judith (Thomas) Feake [NYGBR 86:144-45]... Associations: Henry Feake of Lynn and Sandwich was apprenticed to James Feake, father of Robert Feake, for a term of nine years in 1606 and was Robert's distant cousin. Tobias Feake & Judith (Feake) Palmer were niece and nephew of Robert Feake, children of Robert's brother James Feake of London [NYGBR 86:209, 211-12; Lechford 228-29]. Comments: In his lengthy article on the Feake family (see Henry Feake for full citation), George E. McCracken went into great detail..." 4. The following partial excerpt concerning this individual is from the biography of Jeffrey Ferris in the "Great Migration" book. These are highly reliable summaries of early pre-1636 colonists and the entire biography can be read in Jeffrey's notes: "Jeffrey Ferris... Migration: 1634 First Residence: Watertown Removes: Wethersfield 1635, Stamford 1641, Greenwich by 1650, East Town 1655, Greenwich by about 1659... Estate: ...In his will, dated 6 January 1664(/5?] and proved 9 March 1666/7, "Jeaffrey Ferris" bequeathed to "my wife that now is, all the estate which she can make appear that she brought with her" and £l0; to "her four children, that is to say, those four boys which I brought up and kept," £10 apiece; "in case my wife that now is shall see cause to remain a widow alter my decease, ... I give for her use five acres of land that now is in till, the one half in my home lot and the other half at Tomuck," also "one of my allotments that is on Mihanoes Neck," ... "in case God should please to give my wife a child born of her body whilst she remains my wife, that is to say, whilst I live, or if I leave her with child when I die," that child to have "the other half of my farm" and a young mare; "my loving friend, John Holly, now in Stamford, and my son Peter Ferris" to be executors [Fairfield PR 2:20-21]... Death: Greenwich 31 May 1666 [Gillespie Anc 118, source not cited]. Marriage: (1) By about 1629 ___ ___. She died at Stamford 31 July 1658 (TAG 10:45, citing Stamford TR 1:20]. (2) About 1659 Susanna (Norman) Lockwood, daughter of Richard Norman {1626, Salem} [GMB 2:1334-36] and widow of Robert Lockwood {1634, Watertown} [Fairfield PR 1:65]. She died at Greenwich 23 December 1660 (recorded at Stamford) [TAG 10:118, citing Stamford TR 1:98]. (3) By about 1662 Judith (Feake) Palmer, daughter of James Feake of London and widow of William Palmer {1636, Watertown} [NYGBR 86:211-12, and arguments presented there]. She married (3) John Bowers soon after the death of Jeffrey Ferris, for, on 9 March 1666/7, "Judah Bowers, lately widow Ferris sometimes wife to Jeffery Ferris, do openly acknowledge I have received in full satisfaction what was given me by my husband's will" [Fairfield PR 2:21]..." 5. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken: "James Feake, elder son of James Feake (no. 32) by wife Judith Thomas, was doubtless born in London, and the date is recorded as Feb. 13, 1598/9 in the record at the Merchant Taylors' School where James was a student in 1609/10. He is named first among the four children of his parents in the will of his maternal grandfather Robert Thomas in 1610. He married at the Church of St. Mary Mounthawe, London, on June 14, 1620, Awdrey Crompton, of whose origin nothing is known. The printed parish registers of London have been searched for other references to her in vain, but she was probably sister to a William Crompton who married at the same church about the same time. The baptism of Tobias Feake, son of James and Awdrey, is recorded at St. Mary Whitechapel, London, in August 1624, but the baptismal record of the daughter Judith has not been found. The registers of many London churches were burned in the great London fire, including that of the Church of St. Edmund the King in which we should expect to find many Feake entries. If there were other children, no trace of them has come to light. This James Feake was certainly dead by Dec. 5, 1639, and he probably died many years before that. No mention of him as living has been found after 1624. He is not named in the papers pertaining to the administration of his grandfather's estate in 1625, 1626, and 1634, though in the latter year his younger brother Robert did renounce his right to serve. Like his father and grandfather he was a goldsmith, but his apprentice papers have not been found, and he is not listed by Sir Ambrose Heal. No probate has been discovered. That the James Feake under discussion was not the James Feake (no. 63) who was son of Robert Feake (no. 39) is made clear by the fact that, if so, the children of our James would not have inherited, as they did, property belonging formerly to James Feake (no. 32) and before that to William Feake (no. 13). That the husband of Awdrey Crompton was not James Feake (no. 32) is surely indicated by the fact that, though the latter had married Judith Thomas as early as 1593, his widow Judith Feake was still living in 1625, five years after the marriage of James Feake to Awdrey Crompton. In 1639, however, the property which had been held in Lombard Street, London, for three generations, was to be sold to settle the estate, and since James' two children were then living in America, it was necessary that a power of attorney be obtained from them in order to sell. Thomas Lechford, the famous Boston notary, duly recorded on 228 of the printed version in "Collections of the American Antiquarian Society," v. 7, also printed separately) the following: "Lieuten't Robert Feke of Waterton in New England, gent., and Sergeant William Palmer of Yarmouth in New England & Judith his wife, and Tobyas Feake aged 17 sonne & Daughter of James Feke, late of London, goldsmith, deceased, makes [sic] a le[tte]r of Attorney to Tobyas Dixon, citizen and mercer of London, to sell one tenement or house & Shopp in Lumbard Street, London, held of the Company of Goldsmiths in London, whereof he dyed poss[ess]ed, late in the occupaçon of one Brampton." Though Tobias Feake of this power of attorney is called aged seventeen but had been baptized only fifteen years previously, the discrepancy is not serious. It is clear from Lechford's careful language that Judith Palmer and Tobias Feake were children of a goldsmith named James Feake, and also that Robert Feake of Watertown was not their brother, though obviously a relative, or he would not have been included in the power of attorney. He was, of course, their uncle, and he appears in this precious document because he was acting as guardian to his nephew, informally if not also officially. It has many times been claimed that Robert Feake was indeed the brother of Tobias and Judith, an error arising from the fact that Robert had a known sister Judith, and the fact that the father of each of the three persons was named James Feake. While many circumstantial considerations point clearly to the uncle-nephew relationship, there is also on record specific testimony by Tobias Feake that Robert was his uncle (see below). Children: 2: i. Judith,1 b. in London, probably in 1621, omitted from all the pedigrees. She probably accompanied the Dixons to Germany and may also have crossed the Atlantic with her brother Tobias. She married, first, most probably at Watertown, Mass., and before Dec. 5, 1639, Sergeant (afterwards Lieutenant) William Palmer; of Plymouth, Yarmouth, and Newtown, Long Island, who died in the last-named place ca. 1661. His parents are as yet unknown; though he was at Plymouth in 1638 about to move to Yarmouth at its founding, he was not the William1 Palmer of Duxbury, nailer, or either of the nailer's two sons, both named William. There is some reason to think that William may have come from either Swaffham or Great Yarmouth, co. Norfolk. William and Judith Palmer were the parents of four sons and one daughter: William, Ephraim, James, Joseph, and Judith, whose births are not recorded but whose names are certain. Judith Feake married, second, in 1662 or thereafter, as third and last wife, Jeffrey Ferris, of Greenwich, Conn., who died May 31, 1666, and, third, before May 6, 1667, John Bowers who married again, following Judith's death, the widow Hannah (Close) Knapp, and made his own will on March 16, 1693/4. Judith's death occurred, according to Spencer B. Mead, in 1667, but he cites no evidence and the year seems early. Connecticut Vital Records do not supply any of the missing dates. Several sketches of William Palmer are in print of which the only trustworthy one is by Donald Lines Jacobus and appears in Lillian L. M. Selleck's "One Branch of the Miner Family" (New Haven, 1928) pp. 142 f. See also Spencer B. Mead, "History of the Town of Greenwich," (New York, 1911), pp. 618-20, where... true Henry's family gets mixed up with William's. This error was copied by Marion H. Reynolds and Anna C. Rippier, "History and Descendants of John and Sarah Reynolds, etc." (Brooklyn, 1924) p. 31 note, and by Josephine C. Frost, "Ancestors of Evelyn Wood Keeler" (1939) pp. 60 f., but corrected by Mrs. Frost in "The Record," 71:362. The late Dr. Byron S. Palmer's sketch No. 2150, Part II, in the Boston Transcript for Aug. 26, 1925, avoids the main errors but wrongly gives William and Judith Palmer a son John who died at Greenwich before Oct. 26, 1672, estate settled at Greenwich April 24, 1724, these papers supplying the names of William Palmer's children. We think this John may have been the John Palmer who m. at Swaffham, Norfolk, on Oct. 13, 1631, a wife named Margaret Pratt, and he was probably brother of that Henry Palmer who married in the same parish on Nov. 3, 1635, Katherine Springell. Henry Palmer of Wethersfield, Conn., is known to have had a wife named Katherine, and, among others, a son named Ephraim, born at Wethersfield ca. April 25, 1648. As William Palmer also had a son Ephraim, we are inclined to think that he, Henry Palmer of Swaffham and Wethersfield, and John Palmer of Swaffham and Greenwich, were brothers. No William Palmer appears in the marriage registers of Swaffham, but as we suppose our William married Judith Feake at Watertown, this absence is a help, rather than a hindrance, to our theory. The baptismal and burial registers of Swaffham should be examined. ii. Tobias1, bap. Aug. 1624, St Mary Whitechapel, London; to Watertown, Greenwich, and Flushing; d. in Wapping, co. Middlesex, England, between 1669 and 1672." 6. The book "One branch of the Miner family...," by Lillian Lounsberry Miner Selleck (New Haven, 1928), pp. 142-43: "WILLIAM1 PALMER LIEUT. WILLIAM1 PALMER appeared in Yarmouth, Mass., as early as Jan. 1639, and resided there until 1652. He married JUDITH FEAKE, born about 1620, daughter of James Feake, goldsmith, of London, Eng. In December 1639, Robert Feake of Watertown, Mass., as guardian of Tobias Feake, aged seventeen, together with Sergeant William Palmer and Judith his wife of Yarmouth, son and daughter of James Feake, deceased, of London, goldsmith, signed a power of attorney to their uncle, Tobias Dixon of London, to sell a house on Lombard Street, London. Robert Feake of Watertown was uncle of Judith and Tobias. Palmer was a Deputy to the Plymouth General Court, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1648, 1649, and 1650; and was appointed Lieutenant 22 Sept. 1642, under Capt. Miles Standish. In 1653 he moved to Newtown, Long Island, where he was a Magistrate from Mar. 1658 to Mar. 1660. He conveyed property in Newtown, 1 Aug. 1659, and his widow Judith conveyed 29 Nov. 1661, showing that he died between those dates; probably later than 9 Mar. 1660 when he was on the tax list. Judith married second, Jeffrey Ferris, of Greenwich, Conn., and took her children to Greenwich with her. Ferris died 31 May 1666, and in his will dated 6 Jan. 1664 left ten pounds each to the "four boies" of his wife. Judith married third, John Bowers, who by deed 5 Apr. 1675 conveyed land to his "son Ephraim Palmer." Judith died before her last husband; and Bowers in his will dated 16 Mar. 1693/4, gave property that was her mother's to "my loving daughter-in-law [step-daughter], Judith Reynolds." John Palmer, perhaps a brother of William Palmer, though usually given as his son, died at Greenwich prior to 26 Oct. 1672. Application was made for settlement of his estate, 24 Apr. 1724, in which it was stated that he died many years ago and that no settlement had been made. The next of kin were stated as William Palmer, Ephraim Palmer, James Palmer, Joseph Palmer, and Judith Reynolds. John must therefore have been their brother or their uncle; and as the "four" Palmer boys specified in their step-father's will are all accounted for, it is more likely that John was their uncle, and brother of William. Children: 1. William2, m. Mary Tyler, daughter of William and Abigail (Terrill) Tyler of Milford, b. about 1660; they removed to Westchester County, N. Y. +2. Ephraim2, m. Sarah2 Messenger. 3. James2, of Greenwich, d. 28 Feb. 1717; m. Sarah Denham. 4 Joseph2, m. Elizabeth Tyler, b. about 1663, sister of his brother William's wife; they probably removed to Bedford, N. Y. 5. Judith2, m. John Reynolds." 7. The periodical "The American Genealogist," 26(1950):95, 183-84, "Palmer of Westchester," by Winifred Lovering Holman, S.B., F.A.S.G. My interest in this article is in the William Palmer of Yarmouth, who is an ancestor, and not the William Palmer of the article. The following are applicable quotes: "Various assertions, quite erroneous, have been made in print about William Palmer of Westchester County, New York. It has been claimed that he was identical with others of the name, such as William of Watertown, Mass., who was clearly later of Newbury, and finally of Hampton, N.H. [see Gen. Dict. of Me. and N.H., 527; Essex Files, 2:347-9; New Eng. Register, 51:309; 68:259; 69:284, 342; 75:79, 158, 318; 98:184); Lieut. William of Yarmouth, Mass., and Newtown, Long Island, a son of whose did later settle in Westchester, thereby adding to the confusion [N. Y. Record, 71:362; Selleck, Miner Family (1928), 142-3], William of Plymouth and Duxbury; William Jr. of the same, perhaps a nephew of the last-named; and others. There was also a William, early of Wethersfield, and never of Watertown, and a William of Branford, both in Connecticut. It is the writer's opinion, based on research thus far made, that William of Westchester was identical with both the Wethersfield settler and the Branford sojourner… As an addendum, a few notes will be given relating to the Palmer family [of Yarmouth] … Mead's Hist. of Greenwich (1911), 618-628, reprints the usual errors about the early generations. However, Lieut. William Palmer of Yarmouth, Mass., and Newtown, Long Island, died about 1661, and the subsequent remarriages of his widow brought the children to Greenwich, Conn. Among them, were Ephraim2 and William2. Ephraim married in 1668, Sarah, daughter of Andrew Messenger and had but two sons: Ephraim3 and John3. William2, born about 1658, married Mary Tyler of Milford, Conn., and removed to Westchester County. He had: William3, b. 6 Nov. 1694, d. 1786, of Charlotte Precinct, Dutchess County, a Friend; m. Rachel -___, and had issue, see N.Y. Wills, 14:87. Phebe, by 4 July 1696. Peter, b. 23 July 1703, removed to Dutchess County and had issue, see N.Y. Wills, 13:114. Abraham, b. about 1705, removed to Dutchess County…" 8. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, pp. 117-129: "JEFFREY FERRIS was born in England about 1610. He married three times. The death of his first and unidentified wife, mother of all his children, is recorded in "Stamford Town Records," 1:20, the edge of the page being worn away: "[--]wif to Jeffery Ferris, died 31:5:58," i.e., 31 July 1658. Shortly thereafter Jeffrey married, second, Susanna, widow of Sgt. Robert Lockwood of Stamford, Connecticut, and daughter of Richard Norman of Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony ("History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," 1:380, by Donald Lines Jacobus). Susanna died 23 December 1660 at Greenwich, Connecticut ("Stamford Town Records," 1:98) and Jeffrey took as his third wife Judith, widow of Lt. William Palmer of Newtown, Long Island, New York, and daughter of James and Audrey (Crompton) Feake of London, England. Jeffrey Ferris died 31 May 1666 and Judith married, third, John Bowers ("The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86:211). "Mr. John Bowers, Leftenant of ye Traned Band in grenwich, Deseased, departing this World upon ye 17 daye of March 1693/4" ("Greenwich Early Records": 85). According to "The Story of Jeffrey Ferris," a typescript compiled in 1937 by Charles P. Stauback, Jeffrey Ferris "with the first settlers at Watertown, Mass., in 1630, is on the list of those who paid for the survey and received ten acres of land on the first assignment." The name of "Jeffery fferris" appears on a list of freemen of Boston dated 6 May 1635 ("The New England Historical and Genealogical Register," 3:93). In that year a group of men from Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded a town on the Connecticut River which they also called Watertown, the name being changed in 1636 to Wethersfield. The land within the bounds of Wethersfield, at a place called Naubuc, on the east bank of the river, was laid out sometime prior to 1640. Jeffrey Ferris drew farm No. 26 of 45 acres. It was 7 1/2 rods wide and ran from the river inland for three miles. Next to his was farm No. 27 of nine acres, owned by John Whitmore, mentioned below. In 1645, after Jeffrey had moved to Stamford, he sold his farm to John Deming (Glastonbury for Two Hundred Years: 159-61, 177, by the Rev. Alonzo B. Chapin). In "The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut," I:269, Henry R. Stiles wrote that Jeffrey Ferris received a homestead 26 April 1641 and a home lot and four acres. He sold one acre "to Wm. Comstock in 1641; the rest to John Deming, 1645. He came fm. Wat. to Weth. prob. 1635; rem. to Stamford, 1640 [sic -- it was 1641] , where he became a prominent citizen." Jeffrey Ferris was living at Wethersfield in April 1639 when he was placed on a jury which awarded £ 3 to a Mr. Williams for corn destroyed by cattle due to defective fences owned by the defendants in the suit ("The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1665": 6, by J. Hammond Trumbull). Less than one year later, on 6 February 1639/40, Jeffrey himself was found guilty of the same offense by a General Court sitting at Hartford (ibid.: 44). He was required to provide the plaintiff with two bushels of corn to replace that damaged by Jeffrey's swine, to reimburse the plaintiff for his 10-shilling expense in bringing witnesses to the court, and was fined £1 for questioning the impartiality of the men appointed by the court to determine the facts of the case. That same General Court accepted the inventory of the estate of a Mr. Oldams, which included details of debts owed to others in the amount of £504:09:03, of which £3:15:00 was due to Jeffery Ferris. Church controversies and a growing population in Wethersfield brought about the exodus in 1641 of a group of settlers, led by the Rev. Richard Denton, to a site purchased 1 July 1640 from the Indians for £33 by Capt. Nathaniel Turner as agent for the New Haven Colony. On 4 November 1640 that colony gave to the Wethersfield group the right to occupy the newly acquired lands provided the £33 expended by the colony was refunded ("Ancient Wethersfield," op. cit., 1:142). The new settlement, known first as Toquam, then Rippowam, was renamed Stamford in 1642. The first "Stamford Town Record" is a book originally used briefly by William Collinson, agent for Mr. Edward Bradley and Mr. John Mount. The last of his entries in the book is dated 16 September 1631. Then follows, on page five of the original book, a partially illegible entry: "[16]40. A towne book [of the] freeholders of the towne [of Stamford as it] was afterward called, but now Rippowame, conta[ining agreements] and conclusions of the Companie of Weathrsfeld men to [the] removall thith'r this winter, and also theire most matteriall agreements touching the place; how they came by it, theire rat[es] , accounts, theire divisions and grants of land, 84 records of every mans land and passages of land from one to anoth'r ... "And whereas the purchase of ye place and vewing of it first maide by our frends of New Haven, and Wee stand indebted to them for it, it [is] Ordered at the same time that 100 bushells of come, at 3 s. a bushell, be paid in towards it, w'ch raised and sent them as followeth..." In the list which follows (now partially illegible) of the contributions by 30 men of the 100 bushels of corn, "Jeff. Firries" is credited with three bushels, one peck. On page 6 of this book there appears a statement, also partly illegible, concerning the allotment of lands, at two pence per acre, and three pence per home lot. The record bears no date but was recorded probably as of the fall of 1641: "Also, this is to bee noted, That in a full meeting of the company yt was intend[ed] to come ‘hither the same spring yt wee came, every of these every of these [sic] 28 men aforementioned, and Jo. Jisop, were severally considered of, and what quantitie of aland was meete for every man determined of (the man under consideration absenting himselfe whil his case was in hand and so successivly, &c when hee was called in againe & demanded if so much gave him content; and so contentment and satisfaction was by every one of these men acknowledged; and they sett downe these numbers of acres of marsh and upland after the same proportion, as followeth..." Then were listed the names and acreage of each of "these 28 [sic] men aforementioned, and Jo. Jisop." "Jeff. Firries" was allocated 10 of the 276 total acres. On 18 July 1640, before Stamford was settled but soon after the date of the Turner purchase, Capt. Daniel Patrick and Lt. Robert Feake, also on behalf of the New Haven Colony, purchased from the Indians the area just west of the Turner purchase, which became known as "Old Town," later called Sound Beach, the eastern section of the town of Greenwich, now called Old Greenwich. The deed, recorded in "Greenwich Early Records": 2, and also in "Greenwich Land Records", 1:455, is transcribed below because of the part the subject Jeffrey Ferris played in the transaction: "Wee, Amogerowe, Sachem of Asamock; Ramahtthoe Nawhorone, Sachem of Tatannick; Amssetthettowe, whith his Brother, Owenoke, Sachems of asamuck, have Sould Unto Robert Feacks 8c Daniell Patrick all theire Rights & Interest in all ye severall Lands betwene asamuck River and Tatomuck, which Tatomuck is a littill River which Divideth ye Bounds betwene Capt. Turners Purchase & this, except ye neck of Land by ye Indians Cauled Monakawoge, by us Elizabeth Neck, which Neck is ye Perticaler purchas of Elizabeth Feaks, ye s'd Robert Feacks, his Wiffe, to bee hers &c her heaires or assignes for ever, or else to bee at ye disposing of ye Afore mentioned purchasers for ever, to them & theire heaires, exequetors or asignes, & theye to Injoye all rivers, Iselands & ye severall naturall adjuncks of all ye fore mentioned places; neyther shall ye Indians fish within a mille of aney English Ware, nor Invite or permitt aney other Indians to sett downe in ye fore mentioned Bounds. In consideration of which Land ye fore mentioned Purchasers are to give unto ye above Named sachems twentie five Coates, whereof Thaye have Reseved Eleven in part of payment; to wittnes all Which thaye have hereunto sett theire hands this 18 of Jully 1640. Witnes [each Indian signed by mark]: Robert Heusted, Andrue Messenger [by mark], Rasoabitt, Saponus, Whowhoron, Paaowhas, Powiatoh Keofrum hath sould all his Right in ye above s'd Necke unto jeffere Ferris, as wittnes under written Testifieth: Amogerowe, Whowhoron, Akeroque, Amsetthettowe, Keofferam Wittnes or Testimones to ye Last name: Richard Welliams, Angell Heusted [by mark] This above written bill of Sale was Entered in ye Years 1686 p'r Sam'll Peck, recorder" The significance of Keofrum's sale to Jeffrey Ferris of "all his Right in ye above s'd Necke" eludes this compiler. The only neck mentioned in the deed is Monakawoge, or Elizabeth Neck, stated to be her property. This Elizabeth, after whom the neck was named, was a most unusual woman for those times. She is the subject of a sympathetic historical novel, "The Winthrop Woman," by Anya Seton. A less favorable but more objective biography is given in the article, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London and Colonial America" ("The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86:221-221) by Dr. George E. McCracken, successor to the late Donald Lines Jacobus as editor-in-chief, owner and publisher of "The American Genealogist." Elizabeth, née Fones, widow of Henry Winthrop, was the daughter-in-law and also niece of Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She married second, Robert Feake, who died 1 February 1660/1 at Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He had been insane since the early 1640's. Whether or not Elizabeth and Robert were ever divorced is a question never settled, for no record of such an action has ever been found. Nor is there any record of her marriage, if indeed it took place, to William Hallett, Robert Feake's business manager, although William and Elizabeth lived together as man and wife and had two sons born to them while Robert was still living. On 25 November 1650 Jeffrey Ferris made a most important purchase of property from William and Elizabeth Hallett ("Greenwich Land Records," 1:169): " now witnesseth yt William Hallet of Greenwich in new Netherland, for &c in Consideration of three Score 8: Tenn pounds, hath Sould, & by this present doth Sell & allienate from him Selfe & his heares forever unto jeffere fferris & his heares, All his housing 8c Lands in grenwich, his Whole Right & Tittull, & his wiffes Right also, in ye Lands purchased by Daniell Pattrick & Robert Feke in ye New Netherlands. thee Persales of Lands yt William Hallet doth owne are thee house Lott bounded on ye North East with Goodman Meakocks & goodman Heusteds Land, from whence it Runs up Elizabeth Neck to ye two acres of Meadow that Edmon Sticklands is to Mowe ye next yeare, then that Meadow is to Retume to s'd Ferris. also a peace of Salt Meadow of five Eacres more or les; also Upland by ye Side of it on Elizabeth Neck. also ye halfe of ye Land in ye s'd Elizabeth Neck yt is not Already given out, both Upland & meadow. also six acres of Meadow, more or les, with a pease of upland by it, Lying betwene Goodman Heusted, his six acre Lott, & other of his Meadow. also a Pease of Upland in Consideration of ye Oxe Pasture good Man Sherwood did & should take in. William Hallett doth sell Jeffere Ferris of Stanfford his Right in all these Parsels of Land & also his Right in all thee rest of that Purchas which is undevided. also a Peace of Upland & Meadow on Myanos Neck yt Was William Hallett, his perticuler Lott. in Wittnes hereof hee hath sett his hand. Witnes: Petter Mecok, Richard [T?]owles [Signed by] William Hallett, Elizabeth Hallett William Hallett Reseved full payment of this Sale except twentie one pounds, which is by bill to bee payd by three pounds a Yeare following ye Date here of. 1650 Decmbr. ye 5" Another association between Jeffrey Ferris and the Feake family was his third marriage, after 1661, to Judith Feake, widow of Lt. William Palmer, late of Newtown, Long Island, New York, and niece of Lt. Robert Feake ("Record, op. cit.," 6:211). A third such connection is found in the marriage of Jeffrey's son, Peter Ferris, to Elizabeth Reynolds, whose brother, John Reynolds, married Judith Palmer, daughter of Jeffrey's third wife, Judith Feake, by her first husband, Lt. William Palmer. Still another association between Jeffrey Ferris and the Feakes is the marriage of Mary, daughter of John and Mary (Jackson) Ferris and granddaughter of Jeffrey, to Nathaniel Underhill, son of John and Elizabeth (Feake) Underhill. Elizabeth was a daughter of Lt. Robert Feake and his wife, Elizabeth (Fones) (Winthrop) Feake. William Hallett is called in the indenture transcribed above, "of Greenwich in new Netherland." In that early period jurisdiction over the Greenwich area was claimed by both the Dutch and the English. Capt. Patrick and Lt. Feake had on 9 April 1642 submitted to the authority of the Dutch and become patroons of Greenwich although, perhaps due to Robert Feake's disturbed mental condition, his wife Elizabeth had signed the act of submission in his stead. Stamford, however, claimed Greenwich as a section of itself, and actually exercised jurisdiction over it. In 1650 the Dutch acknowledged Greenwich to be part of the New Haven Colony, although the residents themselves considered Greenwich to be an independent state until 6 October 1656, when 12 heads of families, including Peter Ferris, subjected themselves, under pressure, to the jurisdiction of the New Haven Colony ("Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven, 1653-1665": 216, by Charles J. Hoadly). In 1665 the General Court in Hartford formally declared Greenwich to be a separate town. The boundary line between the Turner purchase (Stamford) and the Patrick and Feake purchase (Greenwich) remained the subject of dispute for at least 44 years. On 2 November 1641 an agreement was signed between Daniel Patrick and Robert Feake, representing the Greenwich plantation, and Andrew Ward, Robert Coe and Richard Gildersleeve, representing the "Wethersfield Mens Plantation" (Stamford), defining the border but, as noted in John Mead's section herein, he and two other Greenwich men were named in 1686 to settle a boundary dispute with Stamford. By 1655 Jeffrey Ferris had, with a number of other Stamford men, started a settlement in Westchester County which they called East Town, known by the Dutch as Oostdorp, and now called Eastchester. The Dutch, concerned over this settlement within their jurisdiction, arrested these trespassers and took them to Manhattan, where they were deprived of most of their guns before being permitted to return to East Town. An interesting account of the settlement and the subsequent acknowledgment by the Englishmen of submission to Dutch authority appears in "The Documentary History of the State of New-York," III: 71, 557-9, by E.B. O'Callaghan. The Rev. Johannis Megapolensis and the Rev. Samuel Drisius on 5 August 1657 wrote a long letter from New Amsterdam in New Netherland to the Classis in Amsterdam, Holland, reporting on the state of the churches in New Netherland. They reported, in part, "On the West side of the East river, about one mile through Hellgate (as we call it), opposite Flushing on the main, another English village has been begun over two years. It was named Oostdorp. The Inhabitants of this place are also Puritans, alias Independants. They also have no Preacher. They hold Sunday meetings, reading from an English book a sermon, and making a prayer." On Saturday, 30 December 1656, Director General Peter Stuyvesant sent Capt. Lt. Brian Nuton, Secretary Cornelis van Ruyven and Commissary Carel van Brugge to Oostdorp with instructions to have the Englishmen take the oath of allegiance to New Netherland. Their detailed and interesting report stated they had "gone ashore during the ebbing of the tide, on this side of Hell-gate, where William Hallet's house & plantation formerly stood, which were laid waste by the Indians about September of the year 1655." The party arrived late in the day. The inhabitants refused to meet with them on the following day since it was the Sabbath, so the party attended their religious services, at which Robert Bassett "read a Sermon from a printed Book composed & published by an English Minister in England." That evening Bassett had them as his guests at supper. Early Monday morning the Englishmen assembled, summoned by the beating of a drum. When the nature of the mission was announced, Bassett objected to the wording of the oath of allegiance and offered a substitute of his own devising. This was acceptable to the Dutch and by all the inhabitants except Anthony Gill, who was thereupon ordered by the Dutch to leave the Province of New Netherland within three weeks. The statement drawn up by Robert Bassett, which avoided use of the word "oath," was signed by him and by 14 others, including "Jeffery fferris" (by mark), Jonathan "Llockwood" (Jeffrey's son-in-law),and John Finch. It read: "This first Jannuary Ao 1657: in east towne in the N. Netherlands. Wee, hose hands are under writen, do promes to oune the governor of the manatas [Manhattan] as our governor and obay all his magastrates and lawes that ar mad acordin to god, so long as we live in his Jurisdiction." The report goes on, "The business being completed and leave taken, we went to Mr. Ferris', who invited us to breakfast. This done, the tide being favorable after breakfast, we resolved to depart, though it rained hard." How long Jeffrey Ferris remained at East Town before returning to Greenwich is not known. His wife's death was recorded in Stamford in the summer of 1658 and he presumably had returned by then. He was certainly back in Greenwich by 5 February 1664, when the "constitution" of that town was adopted at "A metin 1664 Februare fift" ("Greenwich Early Records": 5): "The propriators having taken in to Consideration what wee thought might make best for ye Comfortable Settlement of our towne, in Refference to which wee do conclude to Laye downe our Rites in Common lands lying without fence, mens perticuler Alotment exemted. wee do agree & Conclude that our Rites as above Spesified is now to bee Setled upon all Inhabitants that now are or Shall hereaffter bee added unto us, yt thay Shall bee [entitled?] unto all our out Lands as afore s'd with ourselves and as ourselves, by a Rule of proportion according to what each mans estate Shall bee visablez upon these Considerations, that they with us Shall Constantly endevor to mainetaine & too upholde thee ministrie amougst us. Secondly, yt thay with us Shall mainetaine & uphold, Strengthen & confirme ye Privileges of ye towne. the Proprietors are as followeth: Jeffere Ferris Sen'r, Joshua Knap Sen'r, Joseph Ferris, Jonathan Renalds, Angell Heusted, John Mead Senior, John Hobbe. Why Jeffrey Ferris should have been designated "Sen'r" is not clear. There was no other of that name in either Greenwich or Stamford. The name of Jeffrey Ferris seldom appears in contemporary Greenwich records. On 13 February 1648 he brought an action in court against John Finch, declaring that "John Fensh cam upon my ground and feld my tember and cared it away w't out my leave ...S entenc of ye Court. the tree in question ... appeers to be in Jeffery Feris ground and is his tree, and therefore John Fensh shall giv Jeffery Feris on[e] hundered of clabbord yt shall be answerabl to ye losse yt ye tree did make, and paye ye charge of ye Court, and for ye war'nts." On 8 December 1648 Jeffrey Ferris and Robert Hustis took the inventory of the estate of John Whitmore, late of Stamford ("Jurisdiction, op. cit.": 159). Whitmore, previously a next-door neighbor of Jeffrey, had been murdered by Indians ("History of Stamford": 46, by the Rev. E.B. Huntington). These two men, Jeffrey Ferris and Robert Hustis, brought an action in court 3 May 1649 against James Steward on behalf of local Indians: "Declearation. ye sayd Jams Steward was by agreement w't ye townsmen to keep ye town oxen, and to have 12 s. ye week and on[e] man to helpe hem for on week, and then to Keepe himselfe and to hav 14 s. ye week, and he was to du his best indevors to Keep them from coming horn and out of ye Indien corn, but he hath neclleckted his duty and went about of other work w't other men and for hemself, and by yt means ye cattell did du damedge to ye Indiens in their Corne, it being duly proved ye damed[ge] was 12 boushell and half of Indian corn as 2 boushelles and halfe of pease ... Sentenc of Court, yt ye sayd Jams Steward shall pay ye Indians 12 boushell and half Indion corn and 2 boushell and half of pease, and bear ye charg of ye Court." In the move in 1641 from Wethersfield to Stamford, Jeffrey must have settled in that part which was later known as Sound Beach (now Old Greenwich), a part of Greenwich. The record of the first allotment of Greenwich lands appears on page five of "Greenwich Early Records." "Jeffere feris" drew lot No. 8 of the 19 distributed, no date or acreage being noted. "Greenwich Land Records" reflect only two deeds in which Jeffrey Ferris was a principal, the purchases from the Indian sachem Keofrum, and from William and Elizabeth Hallett, both noted above. "Fairfield Probate Records," 1:65, contain an acknowledgment that "Jeffery fferries, by mariage with his wife Susanna, now Deceased, Stands ingaged to pay certain Legasies Due to the Children of Robert Lockwood, deceased, acording to the Administration enterd in Courte 20 october 1658." The inventory of the estate of Jeffrey Ferris, deceased, was taken and appraised on the 23rd, 24th, 26th and 29th of November 1666 by Joseph Mead, Angell Husted and John Holly. The listing, in great detail, represented a total value of £493:00:06, a large estate for that period. Among the literally hundreds of items listed were five pewter dishes weighing 18 pounds, five pewter plates weighing 18 pounds, Bible, Psalm books, earthen pot with honey, flint musket, beaver hat, etc. His house and lands were appraised at £170 (ibid., 2:29). Jeffrey Ferris made his will on 6 January 1664. It was probated 9 March 1666/7 (ibid., 2:20-1): "I, Jeaffery fferris, being now at this time, through The mercy of God, in Indifferent good health and good memory ... give unto my wife that now is, all the estate which Shee can make apeare that shee brought with her, And alsoe Ten pounds of my estate I give her alsoe. Item, I give alsoe to her four Children, That is to say, thos four boys which I brought up and kept, forty pounds, that is to say, Ten pounds a peace; that yf they Stay and live with any of my Children untill they be of the age of eighteen years, then it shall be put out for them and for ther use untill theyer Twenty years of age, And then To receive it into Ther possesyon. further, in case my wife that now is Shall See cause to remain a widdow after my decease, for soe Long as Shee Soe remayneth, I give for her use five Acres of Land that now is in till, the one half in my home lot and the other half at Tomuck. Alsoe, I give her free, for her and hers, one of my alotments that is on Mihanoes [Mianus] necke that is now fenct in. Alsoe, yf Shee Sees cause, I will that Shee Shall live in one part of my now dwelling house Soe Long as Shee Shall remain a widdowe. Alsoe I give her two of my Pewter Platters, one great, the other small. Item. I give unto my Sonn James fferris, Twenty pounds, That is to Say, besides his Cattell that now is. And alsoe, besides the quarter part of thos Jades [i.e., worn-out horses] which I gave between my Sonn Jonothan Lockwood and James, That is to Say, thos Jades running remote in the woods. Alsoe, I give unto my Sonn James my great Copper kettell and alsoe my bed that now Standeth in the Low Room of my house, that is to Say, that bed, with all the furniture, which my wife and my Self commonly Lodg on. Alsoe, I give unto my Sonn James that bed with the furneture that Commonly that commonly [sic] James Lay on in the other fore Room of my now dwelling house. I give alsoe unto my Sonn James fferris half my farm half my farm [sic], that is to Say, that Land that I now gave him, be the one part of the half. Alsoe, I give unto my Sonn James fferris all my Carts and plowes and all materials therunto belonging. Alsoe, I give unto James my Iron pot and three Pewter Platters. Item, alsoe I give unto my Daughter Mary Lockwood, that now is, twenty pounds besides the quarter part of my before mentioned Jades I gave to her husband, Jonothan Lockwood. Alsoe, I give unto my Sonn Peter fferris, his three Children, one mare Colte that Shall run in Stoeke, to be equal] Proportion between the thre Children. Alsoe I give unto my Sonn Joseps two Children one mare Colt to run for Stock for them, and for ther use and portion. Farther, my will is that what more of my estate Shall be found after these above mentioned Legasies payd, Shall be equally devided amongst all my Children; further, it is my will that in case God Should please to give my wife a Child born of her body whilst Shee remayns my wife, that is to say, whilst I live, or yf I leve her with Child when I Dye, that then I given unto that Child, male or female, the other half of my farm that now I posses, with the rights and prevelidges therunto belonging; farther, it is my will that this Child Shall have a yong mare alsoe, which I give it by this my will, but in case this Child Should Dye before it hath any Issue, then this my gift to reaturn to the rest of the estate as before mentioned; further, it is my will and I Doe Depute my Loving freind, John Holly, now in Standford, and my Sonn Peter fferris as my overseers to See this my will performed acording to the Just expression extent of this my wrighting. in witnes that this is My free will and act, I Set to my hand. This is the marke of Jeffery F fferris Testis: Phillip Minthorn Judith, widow first of Lt. William Palmer and second, of Jeffrey Ferris, who died 31 May 1666, did not wait long before remarrying. By 9 March 1667 she had married John Bowers. "Judah Bowers, Lately wife of Jeffery fferris, and Joseph ferris & James Ferris," swore to the authenticity of Jeffrey's will and Judith, by mark, signed a receipt: "I, Judah Bowers, Lately widdow fferris, Sometimes wife to Jeffery fferris, Doe hearby aknowledg I have Received in full Satisfaction what was given me by my husbands will, and I Doe hearby fully acquitt and Discharge, for me and mine for ever" (ibid., 2:21). Judith and her first husband, Lt. William Palmer, had four sons, William, Ephraim, James and Joseph, and one daughter, Judith. The sons, stated by Jeffrey in his will to have been "brought up and kept" by him, had actually lived with him less than four years. In his will, Jeffrey Ferris made provision for a child he felt might subsequently be borne by Judith. There is no indication, in the distribution of the estate or in other records, that Judith ever gavebirth to a Ferris child. It is worthy of note that Jeffrey Ferris was one of the known founders of four towns: Watertown, Stamford, Greenwich and East Town; and perhaps also of Wethersfield. He must truly have been imbued with the pioneer spirit, for the difficulties of moving households at that time seem almost insurmountable. Overland journeys by these pioneers, traversing almost pathless woods and bridgeless rivers and streams, required driving before them their sheep and cattle, and of transporting in their crude vehicles their food, household furnishings, and tools for farming and building, not overlooking their Bibles -- and their guns. Jeffrey Ferris and his first and unidentified wife had five known children: i. Peter Ferris, born say, in 1633. ii. Joseph Ferris, born about 1635, married 20 November 1657 ("Stamford Town Records," 1:74), Ruth Knapp, born 6 January 1640/1, daughter of Nicholas and Elinor Knapp ("Nicholas Knapp Genealogy": 1, by Alfred A. Knapp). Joseph died after 9 June 1699, the date of his will, and before 24 July 1699, when the inventory of his estate was taken ("Fairfield Probate Records," 4:190b). iii. Mary Ferris, born circa 1638, married twice. Her first husband was Lt. Jonathan Lockwood, born 16 September 1634 at Watertown, who died 12 May 1688 in Greenwich, son of Sgt. Robert and Susanna (Norman) Lockwood. Jonathan was, accordingly, Jeffrey Ferris' son-in-law as well as stepson. Mary married second, in 1696, Thomas Merritt of Rye, their prenuptial agreement being dated 3 June 1696. Mary died 1708 in Greenwhich ("Old Fairfield, op. cit.", 1:382). iv. John Ferris, born circa 1640, stated in a deposition dated 5 December 1705 that he was 65 years old. He was not mentioned in his father's will and presumably was given his portion of his father's estate when he married. John lived in Stamford and later in Throgmorton's (now Throggs) Neck, Bronx County. John Ferris was twice married, first to Mary Jackson, daughter of Robert Jackson, and second to Grace, surname unknown, who died 31 December 1716 at Flushing, Long Island. John died between 9 May 1715, date of his will, and 25 February 1716, when it was probated ("The Ferris Family," by Harriet Scofield, a chapter of the "Jeffrey Ferris Family Genealogy," by Floyd I. Ferris). Proof that John was a son of Jeffrey Ferris is provided by a receipt dated 16 July 1705 and recorded in "Greenwich Land Records," 1:173: "I, John Ferris, inhabitant of Westchester in her Majesties provence of new york, son unto Jeffre ferris of greenwich in ye countie of Fairfield in her majesties collonie of conecticut, have received of my brother peeter ferris & Joseph feris & James feris & Jonathan Lockwood, all of ye countie & collonie above s'd, as thay were administrators of ye estate of my deseased Jeffere feris; I say, I have received of ym all singuler, every part ... willed by to mee by above s'd father, Jeffere feris." At first reading it seems that, since John acknowledges receiving property "willed" to him by his father, he must have been the unborn child Jeffrey appears to have believedJudith was carrying when he executed his will. But that cannot be, for John, aged 65 in 1705, was 24 years old when Jeffrey made his will. Even if John's age at the time of the deposition was misstated or misread, he had a daughter Mary whose marriage intentions dated 27 February 1685/6 were recorded in Quaker records. She married, probably on 10 December 1686, Nathaniel Underhill, born 22 February 1663, son of the famous Indian fighter, Capt. John Underhill, and his wife, Elizabeth Feake. Thomas Underhill, first child of Nathaniel and Mary, was born 4 December 1687 ("Underhill Genealogy, Descendants of Capt. John Underhill," 2:63-4, by Josephine C. Frost). Surely, had John Ferris been born after the 1664 will of Jeffrey was drawn, he could not have had a grandson born in 1687, only 23 years later! v. James Ferris, born about 1642, was one of the original patentees named in the patent granted to the town of Greenwich by the General Court at Hartford in May 1665. He died 6 November 1726. As shown in Fairfield Probate Records, 8:57, his widow Mary had by 4 April 1727 married a man named Reynolds. References: As cited. Greenwich Early Records, sometimes called the Common Place Books. Stamford Town Records." 9. The periodical "Connecticut Ancestry," vol. 51, no. 1 (Aug 2008), " Ancestry of William Weed of Stamford and Darien, Connecticut (Continued), by Frederick C. Hart, Jr., CG, FASG, pp. 2-6: "FERRIS As with so many other early Stamford families, we are fortunate to have the biographical and genealogical work on the Ferris family by Paul W. Prindle, FASG, available to us in published form.[1] Prindle's discussion of the careers of both Jeffrey Ferris and his son Peter is second to none, and cannot be improved upon here. The reader will want to make a complete reference to those biographical compilations. The Ferris family of Stamford and Greenwich was also studied in detail by a descendant, retired U.S. Navy chaplain Capt. James S. Ferris, whose "A Ferris Genealogy" is available in typescript form.[2] Capt. Ferris has since passed away, but the present writer had the pleasure of corresponding with him several times and appreciated his helpful and always interested discussions regarding all branches of this Ferris family. Although Jim Ferris was not rigorous about resolving questions regarding these early generations using the primary records, his work on the entire family is by far the most substantial work to date on the later generations of this Jeffrey Ferris clan. JEFFREY1 FERRIS was born in England say about 1610, and died at Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut probably about November 1666.[3] Various reports circulate on the Internet[4] giving his birthplace in England in an assortment of places, usually Leicestershire, and some of these give his father as one Richard Ferris, born in 1585. None of these reports has been confirmed or substantiated for this present compilation. As recently as 1981, a group of Ferris researchers including Capt. Jim Ferris himself was conducting research in England to determine Jeffrey Ferris' place of origin, but still without any conclusive or even encouraging results.[5] He was married (at least) three times, but none of the marriages seem to have been recorded in Connecticut records. The death of his first (?) wife, probably the mother of all of his children, was recorded at Stamford, but her name has not yet been determined. She died at Greenwich on the 31st day, 5th month (July) 1658,[6] during the time of the epidemic of what is thought to have been malaria that claimed so many Stamford lives in that time period. The Stamford record of her death is partially lost because the original page is deteriorated, but Donald L. Jacobus transcribed the entry in 1933 as "[ ]ne wife of Jeffrey Ferris."171 No further identification or explanation has been found. The Rev. Elijah Baldwin Huntington, Stamford's first historian, while not naming Jeffrey's first wife, reported a tradition regarding her that may or may not eventually be confirmed by future researchers: "Tradition invests the emigration of this [Jeffrey Ferris] family to this country with the hues of romantic adventure -- the ancestress, high born, following her plebian lover out into this western world, to share with him here the fortunes which English aristocracy would not allow there."[9] Jeffrey married second, possibly in December 1658,[10] Mrs. SUSANNAH (NORMAN) LOCKWOOD, born say 1615, the daughter of Richard Norman of Salem, Massachusetts, and widow of Robert Lockwood who died in Fairfield before 11 September 1658 when his inventory was taken.[11] Robert Lockwood was at Watertown during the period 1634-1646, and the couple must have been acquainted at that time and place. She had 11 children from her first marriage, 10 of whom were living in 1658, and many of them were young enough to move to Stamford with her when she married Ferris. Susannah (Norman) (Lockwood) Ferris died at Greenwich on 23 December 1660.[12] Jeffrey Ferris' third wife was JUDITH (FEAKE) PALMER, daughter of James Feake and widow of Lieutenant William Palmer.[13] She had four young boys with her when she joined Jeffrey's household. His will set aside ten pounds apiece "to her four children that is to say this four boyes which I brought up and kept."[14] After Jeffrey's death in 1666, she married as her third husband, John Bowers, and used his name in 1667 when receipting for her share in the settlement of Jeffrey's estate. [15] He was in America by 6 May 1635 when he was made a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,[16] presumably a resident of Watertown at the time. He joined with other Watertown residents in their establishment of Wethersfield, Connecticut, probably later in that same year of 1635. He recorded his homestead in the Wethersfield land records on 26 April 1641, prior to selling a portion to William Comstock in that same year. He continued to hold land in Wethersfield until 1645, when he disposed of the remainder of his property there to John Deming.[17] An early Glastonbury historian found by analyzing the Wethersfield Land Records that Jeffrey Ferris owned land in the eastern portion of Wethersfield at Naubuc Farms, on the east side of the Connecticut River at what is now Glastonbury.[18] In 1640-1641 he joined with those other members of the Watertown / Wethersfield party who went on to become the founders and settlers of Stamford, and his name appears on most of the surviving lists of the earliest Stamford residents.[19] He then purchased land in Greenwich from William Hallett and moved there about 1650.[20] His connections with both Stamford and Greenwich constituted almost a dual citizenship, considering the different jurisdictions that controlled these two towns during their infancy. Paul Prindle's description of this period in Jeffrey Ferris' life is outstanding for its attention to the political and jurisdictional changes that affected the two towns in their early years. An excellent historical novel by Anya Seton also covers this area and time period in a popular fashion, and makes wonderful reading for any descendants of these early settlers, many of whom are named and described (of course with some literary liberties being taken), including Jeffrey Ferris himself.[21] One of the most interesting aspects of this entire historical scene has to do with the Feake family, including Judith (Feake) (Palmer) (Ferris) Bowers, Jeffrey's third wife, not repeated here but again treated amply by Prindle, and a central feature of the Seton novel. According to historian Jeanne Majdalany, Jeffrey Ferris was the operator of Stamford's town mill in the early years, and his sons were probably a great help in this endeavor.[22] Paul Prindle transcribed the will of Jeffrey Ferris in full for his book, Gillespie Ancestors. The following excerpts provide us with information on his children and grandchildren that cannot be found anywhere else: "...my sonn James Fferris my sonn Jonothan Lockwood ... my daughter Mary Lockwood ... her husband Jonothan Lockwood ... my son Peter Fferris his three children ... my sonn Joseps two children... [23] Children of Jeffrey Ferris and his (still unknown) first wife:[24] i. PETER2 FERRIS, b. say 1633, m. (1) ELIZABETH REYNOLDS, m. (2) MRS. RUTH (___) WEED. ii. JOSEPH FERRIS, b. say about 1635, d. between 9 Jun and 24 Jul 1699, m. at Stamford 20 Nov 1657 RUTH KNAPP,[25] b. 6 Jan 1640/41 at Watertown, MA, dau. of Nicholas and Eleanor Knapp.[26] iii. MARY FERRIS, b. abt. 1638, d. bef 31 Jan 1707/08 at Greenwich, m. by 6 Jan 1634(/35?) [author's typo for 1664/5?] (1) LT. JONATHAN LOCKWOOD, b. 10 Sep 1634 at Watertown[27] and d. 12 May 1688 at Greenwich, son of Robert Lockwood and Susanna Norman,1281 m. (2) 1696 SGT. THOMAS MERRITT of Rye, Westchester County, NY, having a prenuptial agreement dated 3 June 1696.[29] iv. JOHN FERRIS, b. abt. 1640, d. betw. 9 May 1715 and 25 Feb 1716,[30] m. (1) MARY JACKSON, dau. of Robert Jackson, m. (2) the widow GRACE (___) PAWLING,[31] who d. 31 Dec 1716 at Flushing, Long Island, NY. Not mentioned in his father's will but proved by his receipt in the Greenwich Land Records referring to his deceased father Jeffrey Ferris of Greenwich and naming, his brothers Peter, Joseph and James Ferris and Jonathan Lockwood.[32] v. JAMES FERRIS, b. abt. 1642, d. possibly abt. 1706,[33] married and had children including James3 who m. Mary ___.[34] Footnotes: 1. Paul W. Prindle, "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)" (New York: The New York Public Library, 1976). 2. James S. Ferris, "A Ferris Genealogy" (5 volumes, typescript, Coronado, CA, 1980), copies at the Ferguson Library in Stamford and other selected repositories. 3. His death was not recorded at Stamford or Greenwich, but his inventory was taken on November 23, 24, 26 and 29, 1666 (Gillespie Ancestors [note 1], 125, citing Fairfield Probate Records, 2: 29.) 4. And in Family History Library materials such as the Ancestral File and Pedigree Resource File, both widely available to researchers. 5. Letter from Capt. James S. Ferris to Edith Wicks dated 16 January 1981, Edith Wicks Papers, IC-10, Stamford Historical Society. 6. Recorded at Stamford, Stamford Town Records, 1: 20, transcription copy, 26. 7. Donald L. Jacobus, "Stamford (Conn.) Town Records," "The American Genealogist," 10(1933-34): 45. 8. I have examined the original record myself at the Government Center, and although there do seem to be possibly two letters remaining of the first name, it is impossible to make them out with any certainty. I hesitate to question Jacobus on this point, but it is a fact that the official transcription of this same record (i.e. as on Connecticut Ancestry Society microfilm #1), made decades before Jacobus, and usually very reliable, leaves the entire first name blank. So does Prindle (Gillespie Ancestors [note 1], 118.) Some earlier researchers, quoted by Jim Ferris without comment in his Ferris Genealogy (note 2), 1: 6, have reported that the first name of his first wife, "Mary ", could be determined from her gravestone at the South Beach Avenue Cemetery [sic -- this should be Sound Beach] in Old Greenwich, and that this stone could be read to give the last two letters of her surname as "... ne," and some have further speculated based on this that her surname might have been Bowne or Browne or Thorne, based on other associations the Ferris family had with persons of these names. This material may have come from an earlier researcher, perhaps Charles P. Staubach, and was certainly not the work of Jim Ferris himself (Capt. Ferris left the name of Jeffrey Ferris' first wife blank on his final family group sheets.) Both Capt. Jim Ferris in 1977 (reported in a letter from him to Edith Wicks of 19 May 1977) and myself on 28 Dec 2000 have physically visited this cemetery to see if any trace of this inscription could be found. There is none now, there was none in 1977 or at the time of the transcriptions for the Charles R. Hale Collection at the CSL, and there was none in 1908 when Spencer P. Mead made a complete survey of the Cemetery (actually on Tomac Avenue in Old Greenwich.) There are many burials marked with field stones in this fine old cemetery, and it is possible and even likely that Jeffrey Ferris and his wife(ves) are buried there. But if there ever were gravestone inscriptions for them, they did not survive until the 20th Century. In my opinion, the entire case for a first name of Mary, or first or last name ending in "... ne" is a fabrication based on the questionable reading of the death record by Jacobus, and some kind of a speculation with the Tomac Avenue cemetery in Old Greenwich. A similar fabrication that proposed that she was Anne Milton, sister of the poet, has apparently been disproved completely (Ferris Genealogy [note 2], 1: 6. At this time she is still a complete mystery. 9. Elijah Baldwin Huntington, "History of'Stamford 1641-1868 including Darien until 1820" (Stamford, 1868, repr. Harrison, NY: Harbor Hill Books, 1979), 31. 10. The date was provided by Ann E. Ferns, a correspondent of Capt. Jim Ferris, possibly originally from Charles P. Staubach, as reprinted in the Ferris Genealogy. Although it is reasonable, I have not been able to confirm it in the original records. 11. Robert C. Anderson, "The Great Migration Begins / Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," 4 volumes (Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 2: 1334-5. See also by the same author, "Robert Lockwood of Watertown, Stamford and Fairfield: English Ancestry, New England Connections and Children's Marriages," Connecticut Ancestry, 47(2004 special anniversary edition): 119-30. 12. Recorded at Stamford, Stamford Town Records, 1: 98. 13. For her career see the excellent article by George E. McCracken, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 86 [1955]: 132-48, 209-21, 87 [1956]: 28-30, 104-10, at 86: 210-12. 14. Will of Jeffrey Ferris, transcription in Gillespie Ancestors (note 1), 126. 15. Gillespie Ancestry (note 1), 118, 127. 16. There are two different published translations of this freeman list, and the most accurate seems to be that compiled by Rev. Lucius R. Paige and published as "List of Freemen," the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 3[1849]: 93. It is interesting to note that the names of "Jeffery Fferris" and John Reynolls" are adjacent on this version of the list. Also see John Winthrop, The History of New England From 1630 to 1649, 2 volumes in 1 (originally publ. Boston: Phelps and Farnham, 1825, ed. by James Savage; repr. Salem, NH: Ayer Publishers, Inc., 1992), 2: 365, which gives the names in a different order, and misspells Jeffrey's name as "Fernis." 17. Henry R Stiles, The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, 2 volumes (New York: The Grafton Press, 1904, repr. New England History Press, 1990), 1: 269. 18. Alonzo B. Chapin, "Glastenbury For Two Hundred Years: A Centennial Discourse" (Hartford: Case, Tiffany & Company, 1853), 160-1, 177. Ferris' homelot, however, was probably always on the west side of the River, with the main Wethersfield settlement 19. History Of Stamford (note 9), 14-26. 20. Greenwich Land Records, 1: 168. The earliest Indian deed to Greenwich land, secured by Robert Feake and Daniel Patrick on 18 July 1640 (Greenwich Land Records, 1: 455), contains an added notation that "Keofrum hath sould all his Right in ye above s'd Necke unto Jeffere Ferris, as wittnes under written," and this has led some to believe that Jeffrey was in Greenwich at that earlier date. Paul Prindle admitted to being confused by the notation (Gillespie Ancestry [note 1], 120). I would propose that this annotation was logically added to the record at the time of Jeffrey Ferris' main purchase of Greenwich land from the Halletts in 1650. Elizabeth (Fones) (Winthrop) (Feake) Hallett's marital status was in public question at the time that she and her third husband made this sale in 1650 (see McCracken, "Feake Family," 86: 219, where the Ferris purchase of 1650 is mentioned.) Her second husband was still alive in England at the time and there was no record of a proper divorce. Jeffrey Ferris was certainly aware of two responsibilities of any purchaser: first, to satisfy himself that the title to the property was clear, and second, to place the necessary deeds on the public record. To protect his interest in his major investment of 1650, it would have been a pruden | Feake, Judith (I4773)
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| 5487 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Will of Sampson Piers [Pierce] of Stalisfield, Kent 1615. Source: "England, Kent, Wills and Probate, 1440-1881," accessed 14 January 2016, Kent, Archdeaconry of Canterbury, image 462 of 743; Will: Peirs, Sampson at Stalisfield, written 1615, proved 1615, referencence PRC/17/57/396, original reference PRC/16/154 P/6. Link: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRGP-9BVV?mode=g&i=461&wc=M68K-PP8%3A250713701%2C250719201%2C251294201%3Fcc%3D1949814&cc=1949814 Extract: -Will written 27 January 1615/16 -Sampson Piers of Stalisfield, Kent, yeoman -poor of Stalisfield -wife Agnes property until son Gabriel Piers comes to age 21 -eldest son Gabriel to have the lands etc. in parish of Challock -son Michael Piers property in Uppharde? Kent -land in Eastry -land I bought of my brother Robert Giles [brother-in-law?] -son John Piers -property in Shadoxhurst, Bekenlden?, Ehcring? and Stalisfield, -youngest son George Piers under 21 -daughter Ursula Piers -daughters Elizabeth, Abigail and Anne Piers whom I had by my present wife? -daughter Joan the wife of James Wise -married daughters -nephew Sampson Craft -executors son Gabriel Piers and my son-in-law Edward Clinch? -Will proved 23 Feb 1615/16 | Pierce, George (I5122)
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| 5488 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Will of Sampson Piers [Pierce] of Stalisfield, Kent 1615. Source: "England, Kent, Wills and Probate, 1440-1881," accessed 14 January 2016, Kent, Archdeaconry of Canterbury, image 462 of 743; Will: Peirs, Sampson at Stalisfield, written 1615, proved 1615, referencence PRC/17/57/396, original reference PRC/16/154 P/6. Link: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRGP-9BVV?mode=g&i=461&wc=M68K-PP8%3A250713701%2C250719201%2C251294201%3Fcc%3D1949814&cc=1949814 Extract: -Will written 27 January 1615/16 -Sampson Piers of Stalisfield, Kent, yeoman -poor of Stalisfield -wife Agnes property until son Gabriel Piers comes to age 21 -eldest son Gabriel to have the lands etc. in parish of Challock -son Michael Piers property in Uppharde? Kent -land in Eastry -land I bought of my brother Robert Giles [brother-in-law?] -son John Piers -property in Shadoxhurst, Bekenlden?, Ehcring? and Stalisfield, -youngest son George Piers under 21 -daughter Ursula Piers -daughters Elizabeth, Abigail and Anne Piers whom I had by my present wife? -daughter Joan the wife of James Wise -married daughters -nephew Sampson Craft -executors son Gabriel Piers and my son-in-law Edward Clinch? -Will proved 23 Feb 1615/16 DEATH: 1. Will proved 1641 of Otterden. 2. "England, Kent, Wills and Probate, 1440-1881," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-23180-59874-43?cc=1949814 : accessed 14 January 2016), Kent, Archdeaconry of Canterbury > Wills > 1641, A-Z > image 274 of 410; County Record Office, Maidstone. Wills 1641, A-Z, image 274 of 410; Pierse, Ursula; Otterden, 1640, 1641, PRC/16/234 P/6, 1641: Will written 6 Jul 1640, Ursula Pierse of Otterden, Kent spinster -sister Margaret Craftes the wife of Edward Craftes -sister Joane Barrow the wife of Henry Barrow -unto my Mother Pierse [step-mother?] -brothers Gabrael Perse, Michael Pierse, John Pierse, -sister Elizabeth Down the wife of William Downe -sister Abigale Weekes wife of John Weekes -sister Anne Whitfilde the wife of Henery Whitfilde -godchildren Joseph Pierse, James Clinch, Ursula Craftes and Ursula Wyse -all of the children of Elizabeth Clinch, my sister, excepting James Clinch -all the children of my sister Margaret Craftes exceptin Ursula Craftes -all the children of my sister Joane Barrow exceptin Ursula Wyse -goddaughters Elizabeth Wyse and Tonsin Downe -goddaughter Ursula Filmer -godchildren: Sara Hatch, Annis Amis, Benet Mosse, Elizabeth Moore and William Woodland -cousin Elizabeth Gurney -cousin James Clinch my great chest -brother-in-law Edward Clinche of Otterten[Otterden] as executor Witnesses Edward Gurney, Gregory Reason, Edward hatch Proved 25 September 1641. CHRISTENING: 1. Findmypast.com's "Kent, Canterbury Archdeaconry baptisms 1538-1912" accessed 20 Aug 2016: "Ursula Pyerce, chr. 20 Oct 1594 at Challock, SS Cosmas & Damian." | Pierce, Ursula (I5105)
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| 5489 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. William is the father of one of his wife Helen's children's spouses. 2. Censuses: 1910 US: North Powder Precinct, Union, Oregon, p.33b, 3rd Street, dwelling #44, family #45: William F. Haines, 72, married 3 times, Ohio Unk. Unk., lawyer of civil cases. Hellen L., wife, 70, married 2 times, Michigan PA Unk. MARRIAGE: 1. Western States Marriage Record Index at http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/fhc/getid.idc?m_id=159984: Groom: William F. HAINES: Bride: Helen L. WINTERS; County of Record: Union Co., Oregon; Place of MARRIAGE: Union County; Date of Marriage 24 Jan 1905; Volume G Page 451. DEATH: 1. The following is per website www.heritagetrailpress.com/Death_Index which is the online Oregon Death Index. It notes: William Haines, d. 13 Nov 1912 in Marion Co. per certificate #3285. I looked this up, and the record indicates William Haines was of Coos County, unknown age, and born in Nova Scotia. Apparently not our William. 2. One variant is death 28 Mar 1921 in Van Nuys, California with a burial in the National Cemetery there. Problem is that there is no such cemetery. More research needed. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Per copy of email from Annie Conley | Haines, William Francis (I3572)
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| 5490 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. William Mangum and Sarah Delight Potter's daughter, Emily Almira Mangum, b. 20 Mar 1866 in Washington, Washington, Utah, married 17 Oct 1879 Levison Hancock, the son of Levi Hancock. Levi had five wives, one of which was a Richey who were associated with the Mangum families. 2. Censuses: 1850 US: Utah County, Utah, 49/49: Levi W. Hancock, 47, MA, cabinet maker. Emily M., 21, AL. Cordelia, 2, Deseret. Emily M., 6/12, Deseret. 1856 Utah Territory: Payson City, Utah County: Emily M. Hancock BIOGRAPHY: 1. Middle name sometimes shown on some family group sheets as Malissa. Husbands Cowles and Levi Hancock (Mormon Battalion spiritual leader and chaplain). 2. Major autobiography with lots of references to Mangums, Richeys, and Adairs and their history by James Richey [see his notes for transcription] speaks of his siblings: a. "The names of my brothers and sisters are (as) follows: Benjamin, Joseph 2, Rebecca, 3, Emily Melissa 4, John G. 5, Martha Ann and Eliza Jane 5, for they were both born at one birth, William B, 7, Robert 8, and I myself being the first born." b. "Emily Melissa- Born Pickens Co, Alabama, March 12, 1830; Married Lvey Handcock, [Levi Hancock]" c. "I lived in the State of Alabama until I was about 10 years old I then went with my fathers family to the State of Mississippi Berculee Co." 3. Http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneerdetails: A. Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847-1868; Jedediah M. Grant - Willard Snow Company (1847) Case, Solomon Cowels (21); Birth Date: 13 Sep. 1825; Death Date: 7 Mar. 1874. Case, Emily Melissa (17); Birth Date: 12 Mar. 1830; Death Date: 26 Apr. 1857. B. Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847-1868. Source of Trail Excerpt: Vance, John, Journal 1847 June-Oct.; 1849. The following trail excerpt details the company of which the Cases were part. Solomon Case is mentioned in conjunction with beating his ox to death: "Winter Quarters June 15th 1847 Tuesday left for the Bear River vally or some other place W. of the Rockey mts. Crossed the Horn & organised on the 18th friday, in Capt. [Jedediah M.] Grants Hundred & appointed Capt. of the 1st 10 in the 2nd 50. Sat. 20th <19th> Rolld 12 miles to a point on the Road where it approaches near the Platt[e] Rivr[,] where we raised a liberty pole & Stoped Over Sunday <& Monday> while the balan [balance] of the camp arived, who brought word that Br. Jacob Weatherby was shot by an Indian On his return from the Horn to Winter Quarters with Some Sisters who ware Sent back by the advise [of] P[arley]. P. Prt. [Pratt]. Shot on Sat. & died on Monday 1/2 after 8 A.M. and buried on the W. Bank of the Horn by Capt Grant Tuesday 22nd Rolld westward up the Platt[e] River 14 miles to where the Road first touches the River again. Orders of 1st days travel P.P. Pratts company in the front double file, The Artillery Single file on the Right of Parleys Co. Elder Taylors company & in doublefile on the right of Artillery Capt Grants Co. in the Rear of Parleys in Doublefile[,] Capt Smoots Co in Rear of Tailors in double file-the 1st 50 occupying the left & the 2nd the Right hand road- W. 23rd Mad[e] 10 miles to Shill [Shell] creek. Order of Traveling-Parl[e]ys Co in front double file[,] Tailors in his rear. Grant's in Rear of Tailors & and Smoots in rear of that, all in double file. In the above Capt Hunters Co. is called Taylors Co. & Capt Spencers Company Parleys[.] this days travel was very tedious & perplexing to Grants & Smoots Cos. by reason as they thought of unnecessary delay by Tailors [Taylor's] Co. causing Th 24 Parleys Co to camp 4 or 5 miles in advance of Tailor & Grant & Smoot 3/4 in the rear of Grants Th 24th Rold at 7 ockl. [o'clock] passing by Tailors Co[,] they being not ready for the road, when observed by Elder Tailor he sent a messenger to Capt Grant requiring him to stop. President John Smith & Capt Grant confe[r]ed together & concluded to roll on, which caused Elder Tailor To visit them himself, but in vain for the Co. made no stop so we had P.P.P. in front, Gr. next Tailor next & Smoot in the rear. in which order | Richey, Emily Melissa (I2200)
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| 5491 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Worldconnect 15 Jul 2007 database:1821208" of David Palmer A. The entire family moved to Cambridge, Washington, New York around 1783. Residence in Dutchess Co., New York. Found in account book of Joseph Mabbett, a business man in Duchess Co. B. Children" Gardner, b. 5 Feb 1742 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut. Mary, b. 4 Mar 1744 in Suffield. Susannah, b. 19 Jul 1746 in Suffield. Rosannah, b. 19 Jul 1746 in Suffield. Barnabus, chr. 22 Sep 1751 in Amenia, Duchess, NY. Samuel, chr. 10 Jul 1753 in Amenia. Gardner, chr. 4 May 1755 in Amenia. Joseph, chr. 5 Jun 1757 in Amenia. Samuel, b. 15 Jul 1759 in Amenia; chr. 15 Jul 1759 in Amenia. Mary, chr. 26 Mar 1764 in Nine Partners, Dutchess, NY. Gardner Jr., chr. 26 Mar 1764 in Nine Partners. Rosannah, chr. 30 Sep 1771 in Amenia. 2. "New England History and Genealogy Register," v. 101, p. 285, Article: "Jonathan and Nathan Gillett Descendants": "Samuel Gillett (son of John, grandson of Jonathan), of Suffield, Conn., and Granville, Mass., born in Windsor, Conn., 16 Feb 1677/8. He was five years old when his mother married secondly, Captain George Norton of Suffield, the town that became the boy's home for most of his life. In the later years of his life he lived in Granville, across the line in southwest Mass., and died there 'in 1739, aged 60', but was buried in Suffield. (Northampton Probate Records give administration of estate 1934[typo?]) He married in Suffield, 22 Jan 1701/2 (int. 20 Dec 1701), Rebecca Bancroft (dau. of Thomas, g.dau. of John), born in Springfield, Mass. (part later Enfield, Conn.), 23 Feb 1680... [Her mother] Widow Jane Bancroft received 100 acres in Lynn in 1638. Her daughter Anna married 13 May 1647 Sergt. John Griffin, settled in Simsbury, Conn., had ten children and one of them, Sarah Griffin, married Elias Gillett (son of Nathan). Son Thomas Bancroft of Springfield, Mass. region, residence at the 'lower wharf,' now Enfield, Conn., was a selectman of Westfield; 8 Dec 1653 married Margaret Wright (dau. of Samuel) and their daughter Ruth Bancroft married John Stiles and had many Children; and daughter Rebecca married Samuel Gillett; and son Nathaniel had descendants in Granville, Mass. (and Ohio) and it was probably this connection that took Samuel Gillett from Suffield to Granville. Rev. Ezra Stiles, president of Yale from 1772 to 1795 was the son of Rev. Isaac and the grandson of John and Ruth (Bancroft) Stiles, and he wrote of his grandmother's family: 'The Family of Bancroft are a brisk, smart, quick, sensible and lively cast. Grandmother communicated her family spirit to all (her) Children', etc. (Stiles Gens. 1892 and 1895). Children, born in Suffield: a. Samuel, b. 13 Sep 1702. b. John, b. 16 Jan 1704/5. Perhaps the 1724 John Gillett of his uncle Thomas Gillett's 1726 probate record? c. Nathaniel, 10 May 1707; m. Phebe ___... d. Hannah, b. 19 Jun 1709; d. in Suffield 2 Nov 1746, age 37; m. there, 26 Feb 1728/9 (int. Jan. 10) Joseph Kent (1898 Kent Gen.). e. Thomas, b. 16 Apr 1711. f. Gardner, b. 23 Jun 1715. g. Rebecca, b. 21 Sep 1718." 3. The publication "Search for the Passengers of the "Mary & John" 1630," by Burton W. Spear (Toledo, OH; The Mary & John Clearing House, 1989-2004), 5:49-64. These pages have a five generation descendency listing of all the descendants of Jonathan Gillet and Mary Dolbair. I only transcribe my own descendency line which is the seventh child: "7 John Gillett- b. 5 Oct. 1644, Windsor. m. Mercy Barber, 8 July 1669, Windsor (1651-1725) dau. of Thomas Barber (emigrant). She m. (2) Capt. George Norton, 1683. John d. 1682. Windsor p. 50 says Mary Barber bpt. 12 Oct. 1651, m. ___ Hale. res: Suffield. (Gillett-19) 7.1 Thomas Gillett- b. 7 Jan. 1671, Windsor. d. by 1676 7.2 John Gillett Jr.- b. 6 Aug. 1673, Windsor. d. 4 July 1699, Windsor, unmarr. 7.3 Thomas Gillett- b. 18 July 1676 (Gillett p. 19 says 31 May 1678), Windsor. m. (1) Martha Mills. She d. without children. m. (2) Hannah Clark, 26 Feb. 1704 (1686-1709) Windsor, dau. of John Clark & Mary Crow (D. Clark-34). He d. 11 June 1708. Children of Thomas Gillett & Hannah Clark (2) (NER 101:285)… 7.4 Samuel Gillett- b. 16 Feb. 1677/8, Windsor. m. Rebecca Bancroft, 22 Jan. 1701/2, Suffield, dau. of Thomas Bancroft. She was b. 1680. He d. 1739, Grnaville, Mass. (Gillett-23) Children of Samuel Gillett & Rebecca Bancroft (NER 101:286). 7.4.1 Samuel Gillett, Jr.- b. 13 Sept. 1702, Suffield. m. Anna Pierce, 13 Apr. 1727. He d. Granville, Mass. 7.4.2 John Gillett- b. 13 Jan. 1704/5, Suffield. 7.4.3 Nathaniel Gillett- b. 10 May 1707, Suffield. m. Phebe ___. Children of Nathaniel Gillett & Phebe ___. (NER 101:286)… 7.4.4 Hannah Gillett- b. 19 June 1709, Suffield. m. Joseph Kent, 26 Feb. 1728/9, Suffield (b. 1710), s. of John Kent & Abigail Winchell of Suffield. He m. (2) Elizabeth Palmer, 1748. Hannah d. 2 Nov. 1746, Suffield. Six children. 7.4.5 Thomas Gillett- b. 16 Apr. 1711, Suffield. m. Elizabeth Barlow, 2 June 1744 (1719-1806). He d. 10 Apr. 1791, Granville, Mass. (Gillett-1955, 23, 34, 48) Children of Thomas Gillett & Elizabeth Barlow. (Gillett-23) [Note: The author lists only one child, which is of course very incomplete.] 7.4.5.1 Zadoc Gillett- b. 12 Aug. 1753, m. wid. Rebecca Tyron (1758-1840). He d. 14 Mar. 1816, Granville, Mass. Two children (1781-1784). She d. Shesequin, Bradford Co., Pa. (Gillett-34) 7.4.6 Gardner Gillett- b. 23 June 1715, Suffield. m. Mary Rowe, 27 Jan. 1740/1. Res: Dutchess Co., N.Y. 7.4.7 Rebecca Gillett- b. 21 Sept. 1718, Suffield. 7.5 Nathaniel Gillett- b. 3 Oct. 1680, Windsor. (Windsor-290) 7.6 Benjamin Gillett- b. 1680, Windsor. m. Elizabeth Austin, 6 Sept. 1705 (1684-1752), dau. of Capt. Anthony & Esther Austin. (Gillett-21) (Benjamin's b. 3 Oct. 1680 in Gillett-22) Children of Benjamin Gillett & Elizabeth Austin (Gillett-21)… 7.7 Mercy Gillett- b. 21 Jan. 1682, m. Jacob Adams, Jr. (1681-1736), s. of Jacob Adams & Anne Allen and gr. s. of Robert & Elinor Adams of Newberry, Mass. Res: Suffield, Conn. Children of Mercy Gillett & Jacob Adams, Jr. (NER 101:47)…" | Gillett, Gardner (I2263)
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| 5492 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Worldconnect 15 Jul 2007 database:1821208" of David Palmer 2. Worldconnect 15 Jul 2007 database "dcrawford" of Denise Crawford MARRIAGE: 1. LDS Online Ordinance Index extracted marriage record per FHL film 185414-185416 (Vital Records of Springfield Massachusetts, 1638-1887), batch M541431: Josiah Farnum and Rebeckah Gillet, m. 15 May 1752 at Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. | Farnum, Josiah (I3939)
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| 5493 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database ":1773912" of Noel Moss A. Birth-Parents-Residence; Parish Records; 1704; Records read by Alan Turner of Banc Y Felin, Aberbechan, Newtown, Powys, Wales, SY16 3AW, 011-44-1686-630606; NOTE; Birth of Ann Knight at Stockbury, Kent; Father James Knight; Mother Elizabeth Eagles. B. Marriage; Parish Records; 1728; Records read by Alan Turner; NOTE; Marriage of Ann Knight and William Clinch at Stockbury, Kent. C. Burial; Parish Records; 1764; Parish of Stockbury, Kent; Records read by Noel G. Moss at Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, Kent; Note; Burial of Ann wife of William Clinch 16 Oct 1764 at Stockbury. 2. Not mentioned in husband's will per Website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/extr2.html#clinch Extracts from Kent Wills: Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Vol. 98, folio 205, Probate 10 Feb 1769. William Clinch of Stockbury, yeoman, will dated 9 Jan 1769 Daughter Mary, wife of Thomas Hales Daughter Sarey, wife of Benjamin Bannor Stephen Hales, Joseph Fuller [typo: will reads James Fuller] Sons Thomas (executor), John and William Witnessed by Thomas Wyles, Robert Terry and Ann Terry. 3. Extraction of the family of William Clinch and Ann Knight from the Stockbury Parish Records (Parish Records FHL film 1473718, it. 2; Bishop's Transcripts FHL film 1737092, it. #3, and Archdeacon's Transcripts FHL film 1752235, #2 -- Note all films should be consulted for research in Stockbury because some are missing pages that others are not): -15 Oct 1774, Ann Clinch, wife of William, bur. -9 Feb 1779, William Clinch, Snr., bur. -16 Feb 1728/9, John Clinch s/o Will: and Ann, bap.; 9 May 1798, John Clinch bur. -13 Dec 1730, Ann Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap.; 1 Oct 1765, Ann Hales, wife of Stephen, bur. -No Elizabeth listed bapt. in 1730. -24 Sep 1732, Elizabeth Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap. -12 Oct 1735, William Clinch s/o William and Ann, bap.; 1 Oct 1809, William Clinch bur. -9 Jul 1738, Mary Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap. -21 Sep 1740, Margaret Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap.; 9 Aug 1741, Margaret Clinch d/o Willm. and Ann, bur. -17 Oct 1742, James Clinch s/o Will'm and Ann, bap.; 27 Mar 1750, James Clinch s/o William and Ann, bur. -No Sarah listed bapt. in 1744-1746; Sarah Banner, bur. 12 Feb 1808. -18 Sep 1748, Thomas Clinch s/o William and Ann, bap.; Thomas Clinch, bur. March 24, 1820, aged 72 years. Conclusions: 1. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no record of Sarah's baptism in the estimated time period of 1744 to 1746. 2. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no evidence that there were two different James Clinches in this family. Some would have us believe that the first James bapt. 17 Oct 1742 was bur. 23 Mar 1748/1749 and the second James was baptized abt 1750 and bur. 27 Mar 1750. What we can confirm is the first baptism and the second burial making these two James actually just one person. Additionally, the burial record calls James as a son and not an infant of his parents. 3. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no evidence that there were two different Elizabeth Clinches in this family. Some would have us believe that the first Elizabeth was bapt. 13 Dec 1730, the same day as Ann, and that this Elizabeth must have died before 1732 when another Elizabeth is christened into this family. There was only one that is correct is the latter one. The original Parish Record shows the entry in 1730 as Elizabeth which was then crossed out and corrected to say Ann. The Bishop's Transcript picked up Elizabeth and was not also corrected. The Archdeacon's Transcript is missing that year. 4. Website of Roy L. Hales "William Clinch (Our Ancestor) (3 Jan 1703 Bicknor - 9 Feb 1769, Stockbury) married Ann Knight on October 21, 1728. In 1744, William inherited the farm in Deans Bottom and also rented tenement #7 in Stockbury. In his will William left the farm to his son Thomas Clinch, on the condition that he buy out his brothers William and John. Mary and Sarah were each given £15. As both Ann and Elizabeth had married, but were now deceased, William gave their husbands (Stephen Hales & Thomas Fuller, respectively) 10 shillings. As you can see in his will (below), William Clinch was not able to sign his name. (He left his mark). Yet he was a prominent figure in Stockbury and one of the 7 allowed to vote when Kent chose two representatives to go to Parliament. The image to the left is from the election held on Pennenden Heath, in Maidstone, on May 1 and 2, 1754. There were three candidates. Lewis Watson and Robert Fairfax were elected. [Transcription of image: "Stockbury Thomas Nicholls, Stockbury, b. & l., his own. William Clinch, Bredgar, ditto, ditto Will. Jumper, Esq., Stockbury, ditto, Will. Broad. Thomas Redman, ditto, ditto, John Waters. James Rayner, ditto, ditto, his own. Walter Smith, ditto, ditto, ditto. George Erll, Lenham, ditto, John Wells."] [Transcription of image of will: "In the Name of God Amen. I William Clinch of the parish of Stockbury in the County of Kent Yeoman being weake in boddey but of a sound and perfect understanding and memorey praised by all mightey God for the Same I do make publish and declear this my Last Will and Testament in maner and forme folowing / that is to Say first and princepaley I Recommend my sole into the hands of Allmighty God who gave it to me / and my bodey to the Earth from whence it was taken when God Shall be pleased to take my Life from me / and my buril to be decent wihout pomp or State, at the discretion of my dear Childrine and as to Such worldly Goods as it hath pleas'd God to bless me with I Give and dispose of in maner and forme folowing, that is to Say I Give to my daughter Mary now the wife of Tho's Hales fifteen pounds, and I give to my daughter Sarey now the wife of Benj'n Banner fifteen pounds / and I Give to Steven Hales ten shillings / and I Give to James Fuller ten Shillings / allto be paid at the End of one hole yeare after my deceses by my Son Thomas Clinch whome I make Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament / and after payment of debts, Legerses, funerell Expences and Charge of proving this my last Will and Testament and all other Charges then to have a true and pertickler Inventorey and Aprisement to be made of all my Goods, Chattels, household, forneytire, wearing aprill, personall estate Beddey money and Effex whatsoever, and to be divided betwene my three Sons / John Clinch, William Clinch, and Thomas Clinch / but and allso I give and desire that Thomas Shall take to himself ten pounds over his Equell Sheear and he Shall Continue in the farme and pay his two Brothers John and William thier parts in five Equell payments in yearley and every Year till the time is Expired begining at one years end after my Desease. I hereby Revoke all former Wills and Testaments by me made at aney time heretofore, in witness whereof I the said William Clinch the testater have to this my last Will an Testament conaind in one Sheat of paper Set and a fixt my hand Seal this ninth day of Janauary in the yeare of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixtey Nine. William Clinch his (X) mark Sined sealed pulcied and deleard by the Said William clinch the Testater as and for hi slast Will an testament in the presants of Us the sitnesses here under wrightin. Thos. Wyles, Robert Terry, Ann X Terrey"] Their children: John Clinch (c 16 Feb 1728/29 - May 1798, Stockbury) married Mary Tollast in Bicknor, 7 Jan 1759 [typo]. All of their children were christened in Stockbury: Elizabeth (7 Jan 1759); John (3 May 1761) - died in Hartlip 7 June 1845); Mary (1 May 1763); William (19 Aug 1764); Thomas 20 July 1766); Mary (1 May 1768) married Stephen Wood in Bredgar on 25 July 1797; James (5 Feb 1769) married Sarah Chapman in Bredgar on July 19 1801; David (7 July 1771 - 10 April 1778); Benjamin (19 July 1774) Ann Clinch (Our Ancestor) (c 17[typo] December 13, 1729 - buried Oct 1, 1765 Stockbury) Elizabeth Clinch (c Sept 29 1732, Stockbury - before 1769) married Thomas [typo: should be James per the will of William Clinch] Fuller William Clinch (c 2 Oct 1735 - d. 1808, Stockbury) married Ann Vi[n]son in Stockbury on 19 October 1768. Their first child, Elizabeth, was christened in Stockbury on 12 March 1769. His father died that year and, as specified in the will, Thomas up William's share in the farm. William and Ann Clinch started christening their children in Hartlip after that: William Jones (30 Aug 13[7]3), John (8 Nov 1775); George (1 Jan 1779); Richard (27 June 1782). Mary Clinch (c July 9, 1738, Stockbury, Kent; d. October 30, 1770, Frinsted) married Thomas Hales Margaret Clinch (c Sept 21, 1740 - buried August 9, 1741 Stockbury) James Clinch (c September 17, 1742 - buried March 23, 1748/49 Stockbury) Sarah Clinch ... ( Abt. 1746; d. June 23, 1798 Stockbury) married Benjamin Banner Thomas Clinch (c September 14 [sic; should be 18], 1748 buried April 1820) married Mary Pain, in Stockbury, on 30 May 1774. After his father died, Thomas became one of Stockbury's electors. He was the owner/farmer of two properties within the parish and, as of 1782, one of the two assessors for the parish rates. Children: Thomas (3 Oct 1779, Stockbury); Elizabeth (21 July 1782, Stockbury) married Edward Filmer in Stockbury 18 Oct 1803; Sarah (4 July 1784, Stockbury); William (5 Oct 1786, Stockbury); Fanny (1 Feb 1789, Stockbury); Jane (30 Oct 1791, Stockbury); James (23 Feb 1794, Stockbury); Henrietta (25 Dec 1795, Stockbury) James Clinch (c 18 Sept 1748 - buried March 1749/50 Stockbury)" 5. Website wills.canterbury-cathedral.org accessed 4 Jan 2015 indexes a will for William Clinch of Bredgar made 1742 and probated 1744. Register ref. PRC/17/92/92b (Original PRC/16/551 C/1). Will is filed with the Archdeaconry of Canterbury (pp. 45-48 of 304 for 1744) and available online at Family https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9R56-X41?mode=g&i=46&owc=collection%2F1949814%2Fwaypoints&wc=M682-SNL%3A250713701%2C250719201%2C251470701%3Fcc%3D1949814&cc=1949814 which I accessed 4 Jan 2016. My extract of the will: William Clinch of Breadgar, County Kent (Title on will notes "1744 William Clinch the Elder late of Bredgar his will.") Bequeaths to "my Daughter ffrances now wife of John ffrankes of Hucking in the Said County Labourer eight pounds of good and lawfull money..." Bequeaths to "my Son William Clynch All that my messuage ... [of] four acres ... in the Said parish of Breadgar called Deans Bottom..." with the property passing to his wife "Ann Clinch" in the case of his son's death as long as she remains a widow; if she dies or marries the property to pass to the child or children of William and Ann. Son William Clinch to be executor. Signed by mark. Witnessed by John York, Batcheller, and John Lossingham(?) Note on cover: "January the 14th 1744[/5] Wm. Clinch the executor" attests that the estate will not exceed 20 pounds. My comments: 1. From marriage records and christening records, we know that Ann Clinch married John Franks in 1722 at Stockbury and had at least three children all christened at Stockbury from 1722 to 1730. A 1700 christening record has been found for "Anna Clinch," but nothing for any Frances. Apparently the daughter Frances of the will is the same person as Ann the daughter. 2. The will confirms that William Senior's wife and son James had predeceased him. MARRIAGE: 1. Stockbury Parish Records (does not appear in Bishop's or Archdeacon's Transcripts): Will. Clinch and Ann Knight mar. 21 Oct 1728 by banns. BURIAL: 1. FHL film 1752235 item #2, Archdeacon's Transcript of Stockbury: Ann Clinch Wife of William Clinch, 15 8br 1764. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Worldconnect 17 Jun 2007 database ":2637493" of Mike Herod | Knight, Ann (I1881)
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| 5494 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database ":1773912" of Noel Moss A. Birth; Ancestral File; 1650; Family History Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland; Read by Neil Moss; Note: Tobias Eagles (AFN LSCM-HL) born at Hollingbourne, Kent. B. Marriage; Parish Records; 1672; NOTE; Records read by Alan Turner of Banc Y Felin, Aberbechan, Newtown, Powys, Wales, SY16 3AW; 011-44-1686-630606; Shared with Noel G. Moss; I share the same common ancestry with Mr. Turner through John Hales and Ann Syfleet; Marriage of Tobias Eagles and Ann Hadwin (previously married). C. Marriage; Ancestral File; 1672; Family History Centre, St. John's; NOTE; Place of marriage defined as Stockbury, Kent; Marriage of Tobias Eagles and Mrs. Ann Wilding (AFN LSCQ-J6). D. Christening-Child-Residence; Ancestral File; 1676; Family History Centre, St. John's; NOTE; Christening of Jeremiah Eagles (AFN LSCQ-KC) in 1676 at Hollingbourne, Kent. E. Birth-Child-Residence; Parish Records; 1678; Information shared by Alan Turner; NOTE; Birth of Elizabeth Eagles in 1678 at Hollingbourne, Kent. F. Death; Parish Records; 1689; Note: Alan Turner gives death details as 22 Dec 1689 at Wichling, Kent. G. Burial; Ancestral File; 1701; Note: AF gives burial as 4 Sep 1701 at Stockbury, Kent. H. Action; Further research is needed to resolve the conflict between date and place of death, and date and place of burial. BURIAL: 1. Stockbury Parish Record (FHL film 143718, it. 2): 1701: "Tobius Eagles Buryed ye 4 Day if September," | Eagles, Tobias (I3646)
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| 5495 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database ":1773912" of Noel Moss A. Christening-Parents-Residence; Parish Records; 1678; Records searched by Alan Turner; Note: For Mr. Turner's address see notes for Elizabeth's Husband James Knight; Christening of Elizabeth Eagles at Hollingbourne, Kent; Father Tobias Eagles; Mother Anne Hadwin. B. Marriage; Parish Records; 1701; For source details see notes for James Knight. C. Death; Ancestral File; 1724; Family History Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland; Note: No place of death is given for Elizabeth Eagles (AFN 44HD-95). BURIAL: 1. Stockbury Parish Record (FHL film 143718, it. 2): "1735[/6]: 29 Feb. Buried Elizabeth Knight, Widow, age 62." SOURCES_MISC: 1. Worldconnect 24 Jun 2007 database "erndavis" of Ernie Davis | Eagles, Elizabeth (I1883)
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| 5496 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database ":1773912" of Noel Moss A. Christening-Residence; Ancestral File; 1676; Records read by Neil Moss at LDS Family History Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland; Note: Christening of Jeremiah Eagles (AFN LSCQ-KC) 1676, at Hollingbourne, Kent; Father Tobias Eagles; Mother Anne Wilding nee Hadwin. B. Marriage; Ancestral File; 1700; NOTE; Jeremiah Eagles married Mary Kacket (AFN LSCQ-LJ) 14 Oct 1700; No place given. | Eagles, Jeremiah (I3895)
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| 5497 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database ":1773912" of Noel Moss A. Birth-Parents-Residence; Parish Records; 1730; Records read by Alan Turner (for source details see notes for William Clinch); Note; Ann Clinch born 13 Dec 1730 at Stockbury, Kent. B. Marriage; Parish Records; 1754; Records read by Alan Turner; Note; Ann Clinch married Stephen Hales 21 Dec 1754 at Bicknor, Kent. C. Children; For details on the children of Ann Clinch and Stephen Hales see notes for Stephen Hales. D. Burial; Parish Records; 1765; Parish of Stockbury, Kent; Records read by Noel G. Moss at centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, Kent; Note; Ann Hales (Clinch), wife of Stephen Hales, buried 1 Oct 1765 at Stockbury. 2. Not mentioned in father's will (but husband is) per Website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/extr2.html#clinch Extracts from Kent Wills: Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Vol. 98, folio 205, Probate 10 Feb 1769. William Clinch of Stockbury, yeoman, will dated 9 Jan 1769 Daughter Mary, wife of Thomas Hales Daughter Sarey, wife of Benjamin Bannor Stephen Hales, Joseph Fuller [typo: will reads James Fuller] Sons Thomas (executor), John and William Witnessed by Thomas Wyles, Robert Terry and Ann Terry. 3. Website of Roy L. Hales "William Clinch (Our Ancestor) (3 Jan 1703 Bicknor - 9 Feb 1769, Stockbury) married Ann Knight on October 21, 1728. In 1744, William inherited the farm in Deans Bottom and also rented tenement #7 in Stockbury. In his will William left the farm to his son Thomas Clinch, on the condition that he buy out his brothers William and John. Mary and Sarah were each given £15. As both Ann and Elizabeth had married, but were now deceased, William gave their husbands (Stephen Hales & Thomas Fuller, respectively) 10 shillings. As you can see in his will (below), William Clinch was not able to sign his name. (He left his mark). Yet he was a prominent figure in Stockbury and one of the 7 allowed to vote when Kent chose two representatives to go to Parliament. The image to the left is from the election held on Pennenden Heath, in Maidstone, on May 1 and 2, 1754. There were three candidates. Lewis Watson and Robert Fairfax were elected. [Transcription of image: "Stockbury Thomas Nicholls, Stockbury, b. & l., his own. William Clinch, Bredgar, ditto, ditto Will. Jumper, Esq., Stockbury, ditto, Will. Broad. Thomas Redman, ditto, ditto, John Waters. James Rayner, ditto, ditto, his own. Walter Smith, ditto, ditto, ditto. George Erll, Lenham, ditto, John Wells."] [Transcription of image of will: "In the Name of God Amen. I William Clinch of the parish of Stockbury in the County of Kent Yeoman being weake in boddey but of a sound and perfect understanding and memorey praised by all mightey God for the Same I do make publish and declear this my Last Will and Testament in maner and forme folowing / that is to Say first and princepaley I Recommend my sole into the hands of Allmighty God who gave it to me / and my bodey to the Earth from whence it was taken when God Shall be pleased to take my Life from me / and my buril to be decent wihout pomp or State, at the discretion of my dear Childrine and as to Such worldly Goods as it hath pleas'd God to bless me with I Give and dispose of in maner and forme folowing, that is to Say I Give to my daughter Mary now the wife of Tho's Hales fifteen pounds, and I give to my daughter Sarey now the wife of Benj'n Banner fifteen pounds / and I Give to Steven Hales ten shillings / and I Give to James Fuller ten Shillings / allto be paid at the End of one hole yeare after my deceses by my Son Thomas Clinch whome I make Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament / and after payment of debts, Legerses, funerell Expences and Charge of proving this my last Will and Testament and all other Charges then to have a true and pertickler Inventorey and Aprisement to be made of all my Goods, Chattels, household, forneytire, wearing aprill, personall estate Beddey money and Effex whatsoever, and to be divided betwene my three Sons / John Clinch, William Clinch, and Thomas Clinch / but and allso I give and desire that Thomas Shall take to himself ten pounds over his Equell Sheear and he Shall Continue in the farme and pay his two Brothers John and William thier parts in five Equell payments in yearley and every Year till the time is Expired begining at one years end after my Desease. I hereby Revoke all former Wills and Testaments by me made at aney time heretofore, in witness whereof I the said William Clinch the testater have to this my last Will an Testament conaind in one Sheat of paper Set and a fixt my hand Seal this ninth day of Janauary in the yeare of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixtey Nine. William Clinch his (X) mark Sined sealed pulcied and deleard by the Said William clinch the Testater as and for hi slast Will an testament in the presants of Us the sitnesses here under wrightin. Thos. Wyles, Robert Terry, Ann X Terrey"] Their children: John Clinch (c 16 Feb 1728/29 - May 1798, Stockbury) married Mary Tollast in Bicknor, 7 Jan 1759 [typo]. All of their children were christened in Stockbury: Elizabeth (7 Jan 1759); John (3 May 1761) - died in Hartlip 7 June 1845); Mary (1 May 1763); William (19 Aug 1764); Thomas 20 July 1766); Mary (1 May 1768) married Stephen Wood in Bredgar on 25 July 1797; James (5 Feb 1769) married Sarah Chapman in Bredgar on July 19 1801; David (7 July 1771 - 10 April 1778); Benjamin (19 July 1774) Ann Clinch (Our Ancestor) (c 17[typo] December 13, 1729 - buried Oct 1, 1765 Stockbury) Elizabeth Clinch (c Sept 29 1732, Stockbury - before 1769) married Thomas [typo: should be James per the will of William Clinch] Fuller William Clinch (c 2 Oct 1735 - d. 1808, Stockbury) married Ann Vi[n]son in Stockbury on 19 October 1768. Their first child, Elizabeth, was christened in Stockbury on 12 March 1769. His father died that year and, as specified in the will, Thomas up William's share in the farm. William and Ann Clinch started christening their children in Hartlip after that: William Jones (30 Aug 13[7]3), John (8 Nov 1775); George (1 Jan 1779); Richard (27 June 1782). Mary Clinch (c July 9, 1738, Stockbury, Kent; d. October 30, 1770, Frinsted) married Thomas Hales Margaret Clinch (c Sept 21, 1740 - buried August 9, 1741 Stockbury) James Clinch (c September 17, 1742 - buried March 23, 1748/49 Stockbury) Sarah Clinch ... ( Abt. 1746; d. June 23, 1798 Stockbury) married Benjamin Banner Thomas Clinch (c September 14 [sic; should be 18], 1748 buried April 1820) married Mary Pain, in Stockbury, on 30 May 1774. After his father died, Thomas became one of Stockbury's electors. He was the owner/farmer of two properties within the parish and, as of 1782, one of the two assessors for the parish rates. Children: Thomas (3 Oct 1779, Stockbury); Elizabeth (21 July 1782, Stockbury) married Edward Filmer in Stockbury 18 Oct 1803; Sarah (4 July 1784, Stockbury); William (5 Oct 1786, Stockbury); Fanny (1 Feb 1789, Stockbury); Jane (30 Oct 1791, Stockbury); James (23 Feb 1794, Stockbury); Henrietta (25 Dec 1795, Stockbury) James Clinch (c 18 Sept 1748 - buried March 1749/50 Stockbury)" CHRISTENING: 1. FHL film 1473718 Parish Records for Stockbury, Kent: "Ann of William & Ann Clinch baptized -- 13 Dec. 1730." 2. Extraction of the family of William Clinch and Ann Knight from the Stockbury Parish Records (Parish Records FHL film 1473718, it. 2; Bishop's Transcripts FHL film 1737092, it. #3, and Archdeacon's Transcripts FHL film 1752235, #2 -- Note all films should be consulted for research in Stockbury because some are missing pages that others are not): -15 Oct 1774, Ann Clinch, wife of William, bur. -9 Feb 1779, William Clinch, Snr., bur. -16 Feb 1728/9, John Clinch s/o Will: and Ann, bap.; 9 May 1798, John Clinch bur. -13 Dec 1730, Ann Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap.; 1 Oct 1765, Ann Hales, wife of Stephen, bur. -No Elizabeth listed bapt. in 1730. -24 Sep 1732, Elizabeth Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap. -12 Oct 1735, William Clinch s/o William and Ann, bap.; 1 Oct 1809, William Clinch bur. -9 Jul 1738, Mary Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap. -21 Sep 1740, Margaret Clinch d/o William and Ann, bap.; 9 Aug 1741, Margaret Clinch d/o Willm. and Ann, bur. -17 Oct 1742, James Clinch s/o Will'm and Ann, bap.; 27 Mar 1750, James Clinch s/o William and Ann, bur. -No Sarah listed bapt. in 1744-1746; Sarah Banner, bur. 12 Feb 1808. -18 Sep 1748, Thomas Clinch s/o William and Ann, bap.; Thomas Clinch, bur. March 24, 1820, aged 72 years. Conclusions: 1. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no record of Sarah's baptism in the estimated time period of 1744 to 1746. 2. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no evidence that there were two different James Clinches in this family. Some would have us believe that the first James bapt. 17 Oct 1742 was bur. 23 Mar 1748/1749 and the second James was baptized abt 1750 and bur. 27 Mar 1750. What we can confirm is the first baptism and the second burial making these two James actually just one person. Additionally, the burial record calls James as a son and not an infant of his parents. 3. In verifying the Parish Records, the Archdeacon's Transcript, and the Bishop's Transcript, there is no evidence that there were two different Elizabeth Clinches in this family. Some would have us believe that the first Elizabeth was bapt. 13 Dec 1730, the same day as Ann, and that this Elizabeth must have died before 1732 when another Elizabeth is christened into this family. There was only one that is correct is the latter one. The original Parish Record shows the entry in 1730 as Elizabeth which was then crossed out and corrected to say Ann. The Bishop's Transcript picked up Elizabeth and was not also corrected. The Archdeacon's Transcript is missing that year. MARRIAGE: 1. Bicknor Church Records (FHL film 1736525): "Dec: 21 [1755] Stephen Hales singleman Man & Ann Clinch singleman were married by Banns." Apparently Ann was pregnant since their first son will be born in about six weeks. 2. FHL film 1752235 item #2, Archdeacon's Transcript of Stockbury: "1766, May 6th, Married Stephen Hales and Sarah Wells by Banns." Gives no mention of any other parish origin for Sarah. FHL film 1473718 Parish Records for Stockbury, Kent adds that both are of the parish. The same film also has the marriage banns which state that both are of the parish. BURIAL; 1. FHL film 1473718 Parish Records for Stockbury, Kent: "Ann Hales wife of Stephen Hales was buried October 1, 1765. A past patron entered into Family Search a baby boy ___ Hales b. abt. 1765, but the parish records show absolutely no child christened or buried near this date. The patron may have assumed Ann died in childbirth, but the record does not show any such event. SOURCES_MISC: 1. 18 Dec 2002 website | Clinch, Ann (I1831)
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| 5498 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database ":1773912" of Noel Moss A. Censuses: 1841 Eng: Village of Hartlip, Kent; Records read by Neil Moss at LDS Family History Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland; Library Call No 306868: In 1841 John Hales (aged 83) is living at Cock Hill, Hartlip, Kent, with his wife Ann (Syflet, aged 75) and several descendants: Anne (13), Stephen (37, Ag. Lab. and presumably their youngest son), Mary (35, presumably Stephen's wife), James (10), Thomas (8), Grace (6), Mary (4), Stephen (2) and William (6 months); The children James to William are presumably Stephen and Mary's. B. 1794 - 1804; Hartlip, Kent; Note; For full source details, and list of childrens christenings see notes for Ann's Husband John Hales. CHRISTENING: 1. FHL film 1752235 item #2, Archdeacon's Transcript of Stockbury. Ann Sylflet, d.of John and Elizabeth, chr. 2 Mar 1766. There is no birth record. 2. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database ":1773912" of Noel Moss 1. FHL film 1752235 item #2, Archdeacon's Transcript of Stockbury. John Hales and Ann Sylflet, both of the parish, 28 Jan 1783. 2. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database ":1773912" of Noel Moss A. Parish Records; 1783; Records read by Noel G. Moss; Copy owned by Neil Moss; Page 25, Entry No 99; NOTE; Ann Syflet married John Hales, (both of this Parish) 28 Jan 1783 at Stockbury, Kent; Witnesses Sarah Bosley and James Bosley; Vicar Thomas Frank. B. Banns; Parish Records as above; NOTE; Banns were posted Sunday 12 Jan; 19 Jan and 26 Jan 1783; Page 21, Entry No 102. DEATH: 1. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database ":1773912" of Noel Moss SOURCES_MISC: 1. 18 Dec 2002 website 2. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database "erndavis" of Ernie Davis | Syfleet, Ann (I1429)
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| 5499 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database ":1773912" of Noel Moss A. Christening of children: Parish Records; 1784-1789; Parish of Stockbury, Kent: The following children were born to John Hales and Ann Syflet at Stockbury, Kent: John (chr 3 Oct 1784), Ann (chr 6 May 1787) and William (chr 18 Jun 1789). B. 1794 - 1804; Village of Hartlip, Kent; Film read at Family History Centre, Salt Lake City, Utah; Library Call No 1058584, Batch 7621018, Sheet 96; NOTE; IGI source Kenneth G. Hales of 2405 Collyer Street, Longmont, Colorado, 80501; The following christenings in the Parish of Hartlip are recorded for children of John and Ann (Syflet): Fanny (chr 26 Feb 1794, d 2 Nov 1794); James (chr 28 Sep 1794); Frances (chr 25 Dec 1795); Ann (chr 23 Oct 1796); James (chr 22 Apr 1798) and Maria Hales (chr 4 Nov 1798); Information from Parish Records received by correspondance; ADDENDUM; Kenneth G. Hales located, and had moved to Arizona (for full source details see notes for Jacob Hales RIN 437); Two other children are listed on Kenneth's Hales Chronicles: James (chr 17 Jan 1802) and Stephen (chr 8 Jul 1804); All are listed as being born at Hartlip, Kent. C. Personal Correspondance from Alan Turner; NOTE; John Hales is listed as a Labourer of Stockbury (1784-1789) and of Hartlip (1792-1804). D. Censuses 1841 Eng: Village of Hartlip, Kent; Records read by Neil Moss at LDS Family History Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland; Library Call No 306868: In 1841 John Hales (aged 83) is living at Cock Hill, Hartlip, Kent, with his wife Ann (Syflet, aged 75) and several descendants: Anne (13), Stephen (37, Ag. Lab. and presumably their youngest son), Mary (35, presumably Stephen's wife), James (10), Thomas (8), Grace (6), Mary (4), Stephen (2) and William (6 months); The children James to William are presumably Stephen and Mary's. CHRISTENING: 1. FHL film 1752235 item #2, Archdeacon's Transcript of Stockbury: John Hails chr. 30 Oct 1757, son of Stephen and Ann. 2. FHL film 1473718 item #2, Parish Records of Stockbury: "John of Stephen & Ann Hales October 30th 1757." 3. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database ":1773912" of Noel Moss 1. FHL film 1752235 item #2, Archdeacon's Transcript of Stockbury. John Hales and Ann Sylflet, both of the parish, 28 Jan 1783. 2. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database ":1773912" of Noel Moss 1. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database ":1773912" of Noel Moss SOURCES_MISC: 1. 18 Dec 2002 website 2. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database "erndavis" of Ernie Davis | Hales, John (I1012)
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| 5500 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database ":1773912" of Noel Moss CHRISTENING: 1. FHL film 1473718 item #2, Parish Records of Stockbury: "Ann daughter of Stephen & Ann Hales December 28th 1760." MARRIAGE: 1. I do not find a marriage of Peter Beck and Ann Hales in FHL film 1736928 Bishop's Transcript of Newington (next Sittingbourne). Perhaps the regular parish records may have it. BURIAL: 1. I do not find a burial for Ann Back in FHL film 1736928 Bishop's Transcript of Newington (next Sittingbourne). Perhaps the regular parish records may have it. SOURCES_MISC: 1. 18 Dec 2002 website 2. Worldconnect 23 Jun 2007 database "erndavis" of Ernie Davis | Hales, Ann (I1430)
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