In my last post, I wrote about the Jews Edict of 1813 in Bavaria and the impact it had on Jewish families. To recap, since the law prohibited the increase in the number of Jewish families in a particular town, children would have to leave town to start their own families.
Yesterday I was very fortunate to receive the following document from a very generous fellow researcher named Ralph Baer.
1826 Matrikel left side of page
1826 Matrikel right side of page
This is from the census or Matrikel of 1826 for the town of Schopfloch, and the second name listed is the entry for my 4x-great-grandfather, Amson Meier Nussbaum, father of John Nusbaum. It reports that he was born 1777 and matriculated on September 26, 1809. His occupation was “Handel mit alten Kleidern” or trade with old clothes. [Thank you, Ralph, for sending me this and for the translation.]
I was curious about the name under Amson’s name, Hayum Kronheimer, and Ralph explained to me that he was Amson’s replacement on the Matrikel. In other words, after Amson died, Hayum Kronheimer replaced him in the count of permitted Jewish families in Schopfloch.
I’ve not yet had a chance to research Hayum Kronheimer. Perhaps he was an in-law, or maybe just a stranger to the family. [UPDATE: Further research led me to a family tree for Hayum Kronheimer; it does not appear that he married anyone in the Nussbaum family.] Either way, I found it rather chilling to see the actual name of the person who replaced my ancestor on the list of Jews allowed in the town.
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I have some Nussbaums in my tree too, although mine lived in Switzerland.
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I have fun across a few who were born in Switzerland while researching mine. It’s a much more common name than I would have expected.
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I’d love to hear how you discovered this. Have you blogged about it? Did I miss it? I am amazed by how many people find out that they have Jewish ancestors.
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I just found out today that my Schwartz family was Jewish, but they converted. Niklaus Schwartz married a christian woman, and they emigrated from Switzerland to avoid persecution after the Swiss established their constitution in 1848. Niklaus’s mother was Anna Nussbaum, so perhaps our connection is even closer then previously wondered. 🙂
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Wow, that is pretty amazing. What a small world. Do you know if she came from Germany before living in Switzerland?
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She was born in Switzerland. Based on some unsourced trees, it looks like this Nussbaum line was in Switzerland for hundreds of years.
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Well, maybe 300 years ago we were related. 🙂
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🙂 I figured it was a long shot. The biggest part of this for me is discovering the Jewish roots part.
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