Marks Hyamovitch Revisited & Tracked

Marks Hyamovitch, my 2nd great Uncle, was born May 1880, in Iasi, Romania, and immigrated to London, England in 1900, at the age of 20 with his wife Polly (Weiss). Using all the records I could find for them, I wanted to outline a basic time line of where they lived during their life.

 

The census took place every 10 years. The first attempt at a census was in 1801 with very few records that still exist. I started with the 1901 census and was unable to find any listing for Marks and Polly, trying numerous combinations of the spelling for the last name.

The first record available was the 1911 census. Marks, 30 and Polly 29, was living at 14 Denmark Street. The civil parish and registration district was St George in the East, London England. (I am totally unfamiliar with England and the way the city is laid out) Living with them was son Samuel (8), Hyman (7), Phillip (4), Jack (3) and 2 boarders, John  with last name left blank ?, (33), coffee roaster and Jane Schwartz (20) ladies work and in (Feller Hand)

Using google maps, as best as I can tell this red building  is the one listed as 14 Denmark St., where they were living in 1911.

1921 census was just a place of work and industry listing and if a marriage was dissolved for divorce.

1921 ~ Limehouse District (record for death of daughter Edith)

England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007

Name Eda Hyamovitch Death Age 0 Birth Date abt 1921 Registration Date Oct 1921 Registration QuarterOct-Nov-DecRegistration district Limehouse Inferred County LondonVolume1cPage347Household Members

1930 ~ 22A Finch St, Bishopsgate, London 

London, England, City Directories, 1736-1943

Name M. Hyamovitch Residence Date 1930 Street Address 22A, Finch St ElT N Bishopsgate  6376 Residence Place London, England Occupation Who. Cabnt. Mkr Household Members

The 1931 census for England and Wales was destroyed in a fire in 1942.

1934 ~ Medway Building (East Side) Stanfield Rd ~ Wood Bedstead mkr (this appears to be a business address for him)

UK, City and County Directories, 1766 – 1946

1938 ~ 34 A Med Way Rd (I am not sure if this is home or a business address)

UK, City and County Directories, 1766 – 1946

Name Marks Hyamovitch Publication Year 1938 Address 34 A Med way rd’ Bow E3 Residence Place London, England

1939 ~ 60 Poplar, London, England  

1939 England and Wales Register

Living with them was their son Samuel (36) also working as a cabinet maker like his father. Marks says ‘heavy’ but I could not read the word written for Samuel. The last name was crossed off and Hyam’s was written, the name most family members were using by now.

 

Using google maps I tried to get an idea of the areas in London – almost in the middle of the map is the area known as Poplar and over to the left Limehouse

In this 2nd view, almost dead center right, with the hand marker is Poplar, following to the left, before WhiteChapel area is Limehouse, then over to Marylebone on the left is also an area they lived as you will read below.

There was no 1941 census due to WWII

1945 ~ Alien Orders, Certificate of Registration – Passport 

From Polly’s record you can see the Tottenham St address, which is crossed off on Marks above; with the postal address of Flat 5 2/25 Nassau St.

Here we are (below) at 24/25 Nassau St. in the Fitzrovia area which is just to the right of Marylebone. From what I can tell they always remained in the same ‘parallel’ moving to the right and left on the maps always north of the River Thames

1954 ~ 4 Even Nos St Marylebone, Westminster 

London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965

Name Marks Hyamovitch Electoral Date 1954 Street Address 4 Even Nos Ward or Division/Constituency St Marylebone County or BoroughWestminster, England

1956 ~ 5 Hat, St Marylebone, Westminster

London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965

Name Marks Hyamovitch Electoral Date 1956 Street Address 5 Hat Ward or Division/Constituency St MaryleboneCounty or Borough Westminster, England

1957 ~ 5 Florence St. Marylebone, Westminster

London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965

Marks Hyamovitch Electoral Date 1957 Street Address 5 Florence Ward or Division/Constituency St Marylebone County or Borough Westminster, England

I found both of these homes listed as 5 Florence St. I believe it is the second picture with black door but not knowing the areas I can not be sure. Maybe an England cousin could chime in and help me out.

 

1958 ~ 5 Nassau Street, St Marylebone, Westminster

London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965

Name Marks Hyamovitch Electoral Date 1958 Street Address 5 Nassau Street

Ward or Division/Constituency St Marylebone County or Borough Westminster, England

1962 ~ Wandsworth

England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007

Marks Hyamovitch Death Age 81 Birth Date abt 1881 Registration Date Oct 1962 Registration Quarter Oct-Nov-Dec Registration district Wandsworth Inferred County London

The death certificate for Marks lists the 24/25 Nassau Rd address

Update on the search for our missing Haimowitz sister ~ a possible lead.

As I continue to work on my missing Haimowitz sister, I had sent away for and received the marriage certificate this past Saturday for a Meyer Gropper and Bessie Heimowitz. Leaving no stone unturned and always hoping for a clue, this certificate left me with more questions than answers but felling hopeful I may be onto something. I was hoping for a last name for Bessie’s mother on this certificate but as you can see, written for both mothers the maiden name is ‘non remember’

The question I was trying to answer with this marriage certificate was could Bessie Heimowitz be the missing sister of Samuel and Marks?

Recapping what I know: the names of the parents of the ‘missing sister’ would be ‘Hyman’ Haimowitz (as written on brother Samuels SS application) Hyman could also be spelled Chaim/Haim or any additional spelling. As reported on Samuels death certificate by his daughter Fay Lazar, she reported Hyman’s name as Herman. As for Samuels mother her name was listed as Ida Greenblatt/Grunblat, as noted on the SS application and his death certificate.

Question: Could Ida have been known as Yettie or Yetta – we don’t know that.

I turned to Ancestry and familysearch in an attempt to locate anything else that might provide some answers, like a death certificate for this Bessie Heimowitz. Identifying the correct Bessie Heimowitz proved difficult due to duplicate names and similar dates. I found an additional record under the New York Marriage ‘License Index’ and on the  license application for date May 7, 1910, Bessie’s last name was written Himowitz. Going back to her brother Samuel’s WWI draft record his last name was written Himowitz. Also, Samuels last name on the 1905 census is spelled Heimowitz as on the spelling of this marriage certificate above. These kind of spelling mistakes are very common and prove both confusing and frustrating and are no real help most of the time nor does it connect them at this point.

So we have Bessie married to Meyer Gropper which led me to a SS Application and Claims Index  for a Bessie ‘Hymowitch’, clicking on it the spouse was a Meyer Gropper for child Hyman ‘Gruber’ not spelled Gropper – this led me to a WWII draft registration on the 16 Oct. 1940, for Hyman Gruber with Gruber crossed off and rewritten Gropper. Hyman’s birth date was Jan 22, 1914, born St Louis, MO. It listed his home address as 4112 1/2 Whittier Blvd., Los Angeles with his mother Bessie Gruber at the same address.

Bessie Gropper was clearly using the name of Gruber as well and by 1940 they had relocated to the west coast.

I had not been able to find a census record for Bessie and Meyer but here I had her and son in Los Angeles and then another hint from this brought me to a 1925 census in the Bronx. I found Bessie under the spelling of Gruber with her son Hyman and a daughter Yetta living with Morris Siegel, his wife Yetta, son Hyman 19 and daughter Sarah, 12. Bessie is listed as ‘sister’ and not as sister-in-law but I suspect that was a mistake and she was sister to Yetta, Morris Siegels wife. I don’t want go off on to big of a rabbit trail on this,, but I have found enough to make me pause and wonder if Bessie could be the missing sister.  This also would mean that there is possibly an additional sister for Samuel and Marks.

I was unable to find a marriage certificate for Morris Siegel to Yetta/Yettie Haimowitz or any alternative last name spellings but in doing so I was led to a 1910 census record for Morris and “Yettie”.  Morris and Yettie were living in New Jersey, Morris was a carpenter, 30 years old, immigration from Romania in 1890, wife Yettie was 28, born Romania, son also named Hyman was 4 and daughter ‘Ida’ was 2 (known as Sarah on 1925) I am suspecting they were married prior to immigrating here. Also note the name of daughter Ida was the name we are looking for for the mother of our missing sister and here is another son named the same as Samuel and Marks father. Coincidence? Very possibly

Records and dates were very spotting but from what I can piece together, Bessie and Meyer did not remain married. If I have followed the clues correctly Meyer remarried in 1935 a Goldie Weinstein. Together they had 2 children, Micheal and Marilyn Gropper.

I did find a death record for who I believe is this Bessie for Apr 1969, Yuba City, Ca. along with a death record for Hyman/Henry Gruber/Gropper born 22 Jan 1914, St Louis, Mo death May 1977 in Los Angeles  (parents Meyer Gropper and Bessie Hymowitch)

 

 

Wordless Wednesday: Hyamovitch Sisters

Freda & Annie Hyamovitch/Hyams ~ about 1925, London 

Bellingham, WA ~ 1906 Postcard

One of my favorite things to do is collect vintage post cards. I am always on the look out for those from the town I live in. The cards I really look for are the ones with writing on them. There’s a story there, a history, a people ~

 

Here is my newest postcard of the building, circa 1906, shortly after it was completed.

                            You can read the history of the Court House at the link below

The History of Old City Hall

Posted on Oct. 5, 1906 it reads ‘All is grand G.S.D. Hope all same at home. Uncle Si’ (no idea what the G.S.D. stands for)

Sent to his niece, Miss Cora Goodfriend in New York City

Who was Cora Goodfriend and who was Uncle Si?

Born 22 February 1889, Mt Vernon, Knox, Ohio, Corine Rosa Goodfriend, more affectionately known as Cora, was the daughter of Clara Oppenheimer b. 1859, Germany and Louis Goodfriend b. 1853, Manhattan. (I have done a little research into whether there is a connection to the well known Oppenheimer family. While there seems there could be a link using the information from a few family trees on Ancestry, nothing is proven or documented to confirm)

Clara and Louis married on August 12, 1885, Phildelphia, Pennsylvania at Congregation Rodeph Shalom. You can read about this beautiful Synagogue’s history at the link below.

https://rodephshalom.org/about/our-history

After getting married they moved to Ohio where their first child, a son Morton L. was born in 1886. Cora joined the family shortly after in 1889.

Sometime between 1889 and 1890 the family of four moved to Manhattan, N.Y. where they would remain until their happiness was shattered when Morton passed away in Sept. 1890.

Tragedy struck again when Cora’s father Louis passed away just 3 years later in 1893, leaving his wife Clara a widow with young Cora only 4.

Louis and Clara Goodfriend 

Clara and Cora moved in with Louis’s brother, Meyer Goodfriend and their sister Carrie Goodfriend at 14 E. 125th St. Manhattan, New York.

In the 1900c Clara (41) is listed a widow and as sister-in-law to Meyer, Cora (11) Also living in the home was Joseph Goodfriend (78) uncle of Meyer and Carrie, as well as Lizzie Dudick (18) servant. Meyer’s occupation was listed as dealer in precious diamonds.

It was a 4 story building built in 1900. Listed currently as 5 apts, the 1900 census shows that there were originally 5 families/apts occupying the building then as well. Work is being being done on the bottom floor as it is hid with construction drapes but at street level a store front in visible. This building was quite something when first built. The top roof molding is gorgeous and I love the windows. Oh how I’d love to take a peak inside.

In 1905c Clara and Cora, still living with Meyer and Carrie were joined by Simon Goodfriend (52) brother of Meyer and Carrie.

And so I discovered Simon was Uncle Si who had written the card to his niece. Cora was then 17 years old and at the Hotel Cecil, the corner of 118th and St Nicholas Ave.

As I continued to look into the family, a number of questions came to mind. Why was Cora there at the Cecil Hotel? Was her mother with her? Why had Uncle Si traveled to Bellingham, WA? All question I have no answers for.

What was Cora doing there? and for how long? She and her mother were on the 1910 census, they were there with the extended Goodfriend family. Cora was then 21. Meyer continued in the precious gem trade, and Si was listed as a newspaper man/theatre. Carrie was there too along with her mother Clara. Cora must have been adored and doted on by her family as she was the only child. Meyer and Si remained bachelors and Carrie was her maiden aunt. It appears Cora had never held a job nor Carrie or had Clara  once Louis had passed. Also in the home was a servant, Selena Klem (22).

On October 23, 1915 Cora married Leon Abbott Kohn.

The reception was held at  274 West 113th St., the home of her Uncle Sy. It appears the family had moved here sometime between 1910 and 1915, and yes they were all still together.

This family was extremely close with ties that bound them till death. For a brief time Leon and Cora were living in New Jersey where their first of two daughters was born. The 1920 census revealed that Cora’s mother Clara was living with them along with 1 servant Josie Stugard. In fact none of the family was ever without some help, whether listed servant or maid.

But in 1921 Clara Goodfriend (62) passed away in New Jersey. Cora must have been heartbroken considering how close they were.

No one in this family was ever alone. They all lived together supporting each other in all their endeavors, through the laughter and tears, the holidays and celebrations. From the wedding announcement we learned that Leon came from a family of 2 brothers who were Rabbi’s. This one Bellingham post card could send me down the rabbit hole of genealogy research for days but for now I’ll control myself 🙂

Cora and Leon moved back to Manhattan some time between 1925 and 1930 to 645 West End Ave.  In fact they moved into the apartment right next to Simon, Carrie and Meyer which was occupied by all three on the 1925 census. Meyer was still in the jewelry business and Si a stage producer.

But their family life together was again shattered when Meyer passed away on the 15th of July 1927. Simon passed on 6 of November, 1939 and a year later Cora lost her Aunt Carrie on the 21 Nov., 1940. Carrie had been living with her and Leon when she passed.

It is impossible to know when Carrie had moved in with Cora and her family, I like to believe that she remained with her brother Simon up until his death in 1939 and then she moved in Cora and Leon, all, always caring for each other, never leaving anyone alone.

This was a wonderful glimpse into the Goodfriend family. It is a very comforting feeling for me to have learned how close knit this family was. If only I could learn what lured Si to the wild west of Bellingham 1906. Established as a town in 1903, it was merger of four towns, having their beginnings in the mid 1800’s, that were situated on the Bellingham Bay.

Goodfriend was certainly the perfect last name.

 

 

Abraham Herschel (Harry) Rosen my 2x Great Uncle

It’s been a few years since I wrote about the Rosen side of the family. I had been able to track them back to my 3x great grandparents Jakob Rozen b. abt 1830, Sompolno, Poland and Mirla Morgansztern b. abt 1830, also of Sompolno. The community of Jewish inhabitants at that time was about 320. The population had doubled by the time my great grandmother Kruse (Kate) Rosen had been born on the 10th of January 1889. Kate was one of seven children born to her parents.

Abraham Herschel (Harry) Rosen b. 1900 in Sompolno was Kates youngest brother. They were about 11 years apart and together, they had made the trip over to New York from Poland in June of 1911.

Kate Rosen married Benjamin Lipschitz in 1913 in New York City. This was an arranged marriage between 2 deaf adults, both deaf from a childhood illness, Benjamin from typhoid fever. Kate and Benjamin went on to have three daughters, Minnie, Esther, and Mary. Minnie was my grandmother.

Harry went on to marry Kate Brickman in November of 1924. They had one daughter Renee Annette Rosen.  

I cropped this photo from the family photo below. With the help of the facebook group Genealogist Photo Restoration – Alan Spearman repaired this photo for us.

 

Photo courtesy of the Brickman/Posner Family 

seated: Ben Brickman, wife Rose, Joseph Posner & Ann Posner, Anna Brickman wife of Joseph Brickman, matriarch Kate Brickman, Kate Rosen & Harry Rosen standing: Ben Posner & brother Murray Posner, Majorie & Alan (children of Ben & Rose Brickman), Bebe Posner, Renee Rosen, David Brickman and Jesse Brickman 

It was the immigration record for (my) Kate and Harry (written Abram) that provided my original lead on this family. Kate (22) and Abram (11) were traveling together. They left behind their brother, written ‘Usther’ in Sompolno, traveling to their father Selig R., 217 E. 102nd St, The immigration record indicated  Kate was ‘deaf and dumb’. It was with this record I learned of the brother left behind and the brother she had been traveling with.

Back when I had originally posted about Kate and her brother Harry, and learned he had married Kate Brickman, I discovered Kate was related and connected to the Brickman Family of the Hotel Brickman in the Catskills. One thing led to an other and I connected with 2 distant cousins off this branch, Patti Daboosh nee Posner and Rita Domnitz nee Brickman. And just recently I have been connected to Harry’s grandson Eric Amrine along with Jill Rotter nee Brickman, sister to Rita.

Patti shared with me that Hotel Brickman was purchased on May 10, 1912 by Abraham and Molly Brickman. The family has also graciously shared this wonderful family photo.

Abraham and Molly Brickman children Jehiel, Anna and Joseph

Photo’s courtesy of the Brickman/Posner Family 

Again with the help of the facebook group Genealogist Photo Restoration – Candice Shaver Penna did a beautiful job restoring this photo for us.

Patti is the granddaughter of Anna (above), Rita and Jill granddaughters of Jehiel (above), Eric the great grandson of Jehiel (above)

The details of my grandmother’s life with Benjamin has been easily traceable with connections through our family line but Harry had been unknown and remained somewhat of mystery until a few years ago. Now with my connection to Eric, along with  Patti, Rita and Jill the veil is lifting.

Abraham Herschel (Harry) Rosen traveled over aboard the Blucher from the port of Hamburg and arrived in New York Harbor on June 20th, 1911. At that time his parents, Selig and Rose were living at 219 E. 102nd St.. Selig was working as a Hebrew teacher, a profession he would keep his entire life. Living at home with them was son Jacob (16) working as an operator in a waist factory.

His oldest sister, Jenny b. 1886 was the first in the family to make the voyage over, arriving prior to Oct. 1903 when she married Alexander Reiner in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Father Selig arrived in 1904 followed by his daughter Rejle Rose (Rae) b. 1890 in 1906. Rose married David Smith sometime that or the following year of 1907.

Selig’s wife Rose came over arriving on the SS Pretoria on March 1, 1909. I found Rose on the list of detained aliens, going to her husband, name not mentioned, but released to her daughter Mrs. Reiner. (It was with this notation I was able to distinguish her from the almost hundred other Rose Rosen’s 🙂

Son Jacob b. Apr 1894 arrived July 17, 1909 At the age of 17 Jacob married in  Dec. 1911  a woman named Sadie Schoenwetter.

There are two other children who it appears remained in Sompolno. The oldest child, a daughter named Mirla and son Usther. I have been able to confirm that Usther did remain and was murdered in the Holocaust.

Harry’s WW1 draft registration, 1918,  gives up a more detail into his life. He listed his permanent residence as his parent’s E. 102nd St. address and at 18yrs old he was working as a waiter. Not quite sure of the restaurant’s name but it appears to be Hildreth’s, Nassau County? Hildreth’s is an extremely well know established family in Suffolk county (South Hampton) with many businesses associated with their name During this time frame perhaps Hildreth began or had some business in Nassau county as written on the document.

Harry’s (Abraham) WWI Draft Registration

On  November 11th, 1924, Harry, using his proper name married Kate Brickman.

Notice the address of where they were married. Built in 1888 – 1889 ~ 80 West 126 St. was originally the dance studio of George W. Wallace with an adjoining home for his family. It also doubled as a rentable entertainment venue.  Known as the Ellsmere by 1906 this venue was a very popular spot for large events. It was here that Kate and Harry married. By 1929 this became the popular Plantation Club in direct competition with the Cotton Club. Today it houses The Baptist Church of Prayer.

Google Maps Photo 

But what was Harry up to those 6 years prior?

In an email between Eric and myself he shared “We did know when he was older he attended Emma Goldman’s salons in her house. Knew her well, at least as an admirer. Rode the rails as well. Then met Kate at the hotel, hearing the Moonlight Sonata coming through an open window and following the sound to the house piano.” The hotel was The Brickman Hotel ~ Catskills ~ South Fallsburg.

I mentioned that Patti had shared with me that the hotel was bought in 1912 , she also shared a copy of the original deed. The seller was Matilda A Rickard. It is amazing that the family actually has the whole document in tac and I was delighted to get to see the entire document. The Hotel Brickman deserves its own posting which I may attempt at a later date.

I was unable to find the family of Harry, Kate and Renee in the 1930, or Harry in the old man’s listing for WWII. I have found no evidence of him naturalizing. I am absolutely delighted we now know what Harry looked like.

I am fascinated by the fact that he attended the salons of Emma Goldman which really does give us a glimpse into his mindset for the times.

“Emma Goldman (1869–1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women’s equality and independence, and union organization. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young men into the military during World War I led to a two-year imprisonment, followed by her deportation in 1919. For the rest of her life until her death in 1940, she continued to participate in the social and political movements of her age, from the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War.”  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman/

Abraham Harry Rosen was my 2x great Uncle and I am so thankful for the connection I have made with his branch of our family.

Harry past away in Feb. 1986 and is buried at Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington D.C.

May his and Kates memory be a blessing 

 

Rosen Family Revisited: A Shoah Death Discovered

I have been working on a posting for a number of days now that I was quite excited about. It always seems to be the case that as I work on one thing another pops up, catches my breath and leads me in a different direction. And so this is a different direction but within the same family.

My 2x great grandfather was a man named Selig Rozen (Rosen) b. 1862 Sompolno, Poland. He married Rojza Ruchel (Rosa) Bibrowski //Beberofski b. 1873 also of Sompolno, Poland. They had 7 children, all born in Sompolno.

Mirla b. 1880; Jennie b. 1886; Kruse/Kate b. 1889 (my great grandmother); Rejle/Rose b. 1890; Jacob Wolf b. 1894; Uscher/Auszer b. 1896, and Abraham Herschel/Harry b. 1900.

With the exception of Mirla and Uscher/Auszer  the other 5 siblings and parents immigrated to New York between the years of 1901 – 1911. I have been able to trace and research their stories as well as connect with cousins and grandchildren of their families.

But today I pause and want to write about

Uscher/Auszer 

In June of 1911 my great grandmother Kate Rosen (22), deaf from a childhood illness, traveled with her youngest brother Abraham Herschel/ Harry to their parents Selig and Rosa already living in the New York. On the passenger list under the heading of  “the name and complete address of nearest relative or friend in country whence Alien came” was written  “brother Usther R. – Sompolno” 

Up until today I had never been able to find anything to confirm that he or the oldest Mirla, had immigrated over. I still have nothing for Mirla. Working on the other post and looking at Uscher – (I already had a birth date for Uscher of 29 Aug. 1896. I had been in touch with a distant family member over in Sweden who had some basic research and documents for our family and this was the date she had given me) I did a general search, one of those just for the hec of it and sadly I learned the fate of Uscher Auszer who did not make the trip over to his family but lost his life in The Shoah.

Thank you to

The Arolsen Archives – International Center On Nazi Persecution 

https://arolsen-archives.org/en/search-explore/search-online-archive/

for their incredible work and documentation of those lost, to preserve their memory.

The first document found was a reference to him living in Germany in 1935. A Kaufmann was a merchant. Notice the under Title – the word Eschwege seems to be a location and it will be noted on other documents

Uscher Bibrowski
Residence Date:	1935
Address:	Obermarkt 20
Residence Place:	Eschwege, Deutschland (Germany)
Occupation:	Kaufmann
Title:	Adreßbuch von Eschwege

 

*** This post has been updated and many of the documents first posted can be found on additional post for Uscher.

 

 

I have contacted the Arolsen Archives site and have updated with a post on 11/25/2019

Under Findagrave.com 

Name:	Uscher Bibrowski
Birth Date:	28 Aug 1896
Cemetery:	Jews of Germany Murdered in the Holocaust
Has Bio?:	N
URL:	https://www.findagrave.com/mem…

Sometimes you just have to stop and breath and that is how I am feeling.

Uscher Auszer, brother of my great grandmother Kate, brother of Mirla, Jennie, Rose, Jacob and Harry, son of Selig and Rosa

May Your Memory Be A Blessing 

Mash Letters and Hot Dogs ~ A Haimowitz Connection

 

In my on going search for the sister of my great grandfather Samuel Haimowitz and his brother Marks Hyamovitch, some how I found myself combing newspapers.com for Haimowitz mentions. I had begun my morning going over all my DNA matches looking for a common thread and something must have triggered that plunge down the rabbit hole. It wasn’t long before I began spotting some interesting articles then cross checking on ancestry.

This was a case of infidelity by Mrs. Belle Julian Lippner, accused by her husband, Jordan Lippner, described as a self made pure food monarch of Westerchester Co., He was accusing her of having an affair with her ‘six foot caddy’.

Jordan was accusing his wife of being in the company of other men. But it was some of the terms that caught my interest and kept me reading in this 1929 Daily News article of Nov. 28th.

Jordan accused her of  being a “Pseudo-intellectual, a Bohemian, an advocate of free love. To high brow and “Freudian” in her conversations.”

Belle accused Jordon of having “amnesia when telling her about his life’s history” she went on to say “he was reading to many “hot dog’magazines”.

Justice Joseph Morschauser was not impressed with Belle’s testimony and denied her request for $100 weekly alimony and $500 in her attorney fees. Justice Morschauser reprimanded her on not stopping her lover from writing her “affectionate letters” and went on to say “a wife has no right to receive mash notes.”

Belle, now living with her mother, had been away at ‘summer camp’ and when she had returned home, she told her husband she was with child. It was then he accused her of the unfaithfulness. That is when she left him she said.

Added into evidence were three letters written to Belle by Sidney Haimowitz (b-1910). The 1st letter was dated 24 July 1929 from Island Camp, Craryville, NY; the 2nd from Lake George on 18th of August and a 3rd with no date. In letter number 2 Sidney was excited to be seeing her the following weekend. The letters to Belle seemed so simplistically sweet and I quote the last letter he had written from the article “all day Monday, after you had left, everything I saw and heard reminded me of you, and my heart missed a beat or two, and I thought the craziest things”

Reading the article I found myself routing for a love story between Belle and her caddy Sidney. Belle it seemed to me could be the poster girl for the Flapper generation and for that matter a poster girl for my hippie generation. Had anything really changed?

Getting back to the the ‘hot dog’ magazines that Belle accused her husband Jordon of reading. It’s context led me to believe she was referring to some racy men’s magazine of it’s time and I wasn’t let down. Below is an article that led me down an additional rabbit hole to some of the most interesting reading in some time.

Hot Dogs And Prohibition Smut: Jack Dinsmore’s The Regular Fellows Monthly (1922)

What happened to Jordon Lippner, wealthy pure food monarch, his wife Belle Julian Lippner and Sidney Haimowitz?  Perhaps a tale for another time but what connects this story is multi DNA connections for me to the family of Sidney Haimowitz back to his grandfather

Casriel (Charles) Haimowitz b. 1844 Romania d. 24 Feb 1917 N.Y.C.  and his wife Ida or Yetta Greenberg b. Apr 1845 Romania d. 1915 N.Y.C.

Casriel’s father was

Hyman Haimowitz and mother Ida Moskowitz both born about 1820 – country unknown

I have long suspected that Casriel holds a key to our family and our MRCA for many of my DNA connections, which has not been easy to prove.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 4th of July 2019

As I welcomed today, this 4th of July,  2019, it began as all others, the usual morning routine; I knew there would be no holiday picnic, no family close by to gather with. There would be late night tv mixed with the dread of bombs bursting in air over our evening sky and we would be up consoling our fur baby and keeping him calm. Then another thought began to surface.

This was the first 4th of July since finding my English ancestors, the first, knowing I had actual family who made their life there in England, the first time to think about the importance and impact of my ancestors choices on mine and my families lives. The first time I would be thinking of and looking at our separation and independence from Great Britain in a totally new light.

My great grandfather Samuel Haimowitz immigrated, arrived and settled in the United States of America sometime between 1900 and 1902 while his brother Marks Hyamovitch arrived in England in 1901 where he settled and established his family. Both of them immigrating from Romania.

 

Samuel and Marks

There are so many questions regarding these two brothers and their choices.  The most obvious for me is why had Samuel chosen America and why had Marks chosen England? Had they traveled from Romania together before Sam left for America? If so why had Marks remained? What had influenced their choices? Was it a financial or personal preference? What had been their relationship prior to their decisions? Both men were carpenters and perhaps they worked together at some point. Their age difference is about 5 years. Sam the oldest born about 1875 and Marks in 1880. It appears as with many families with great distances between them that over the years and generations information and contact between these two families was lost. All these questions and more remain now for those of us who have come after them.

Just last month a cousin, Arline, traveled with her husband from California to London to meet for the first time this branch of cousins. It has been about 70 years since a member of the English branch traveled here to New York. It had been through one lone photo taken at this meeting, that survived with the English branch, that connected us all together again. In just a couple of weeks, Arline, who I too have never met, will travel from her home to mine in Washington state and we will meet.

This 4th of July has taken on a very new and special meaning for me…the 13 colonies may have separated and declared their independence back in 1776 but I am declaring and my proclamation is no amount of time and distance or declaration by our forefathers can separate or divide me from my extended family. We are forever connected not only through DNA but the bond of humanity.

 

 

Our Missing Haimowitz Sister Update

On March 1st, under the title of The Search Continues For Our Missing Haimowitz Sister, I had outlined my continued effort to try and discover who the sister of my great grandfather Samuel Haimowitz and his brother Marks Hyamovitch was. This brick wall in our family stories continues to haunt me. Who are you lady with the glasses along with Samuel your brother and niece Freda, daughter of your brother Marks?

Marks Hyamovitch

In the post on March 1st, I had written that I had sent away for the marriage certificate of Nathan Schoenfeld and Celia Haimovitch; 10 June 1908. I received the record yesterday, again a disappointment. She was not our missing sister.

My thinking for sending for the marriage or death records of women with the maiden last name of Haimowitz, Hyamovitch and or any similar variations, is to match her with the parent’s names of Hyman Haimowitz and Ida Greenblatt. As you can see with this record,  Celia’s parent’s names were Joseph and Dollie Rubenstein.

My hypothesis is the assumption that once she immigrated from Romania she married in the states. This, of course, can be flawed. She may have married in Romania, she may have even made a stopover in England, where Marks and his family settled, met and married over there and then continued to the states. Family history does indicate that she lived and was married in the N.Y. area though.

The search continues….

 

 

 

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