I am now up to the sixth child of Isaak Blumenfeld and his wife Gelle Strauss, their son Meier, whom I’ve labeled Meier Blumenfeld IIB to distinguish him from his first cousin Meier Blumenfeld IIA and the other Meier Blumenfelds on my tree.
Meier IIB was born on March 5, 1851, in Momberg, Germany.
Meier Blumenfeld IIB, birth record, Geburtsregister der Juden von Momberg (Neustadt) 1850-1874 (HHStAW Abt. 365 Nr. 608)AutorHessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, WiesbadenErscheinungsjahr1850-1874, p. 3
He married Sarchen or Sarah Moses on November 27, 1877, in Treysa, Germany, where Sarchen was born on May 13, 1846, to Moses Moses and Roschen Schwalmberg.
Meier Blumenfeld IIB, marriage record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: 920; Laufende Nummer: 7986, Year Range: 1877, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Marriages, 1849-1930.
Meier IIB and Sarchen had five children. Their first, Moses (labeled Moses Blumenfeld III to distinguish him for all the other Moses Blumenfelds on my tree) was born on May 16, 1879, in Neustadt, Germany, where Meier IIB and Sarchen had settled.
Moses Blumenfeld III, birth record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: 915; Laufende Nummer: 6462, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Births, 1851-1901
The second child was Hermann (labeled Hermann Blumenfeld III), born the following year in Neustadt on August 8, 1880.
Herman Blumenfeld IV birth record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: 915; Laufende Nummer: 6463, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Births, 1851-1901
Then came Rosa, Meier IIB and Sarchen’s only daughter. She was born in Neustadt on July 10, 1883.
Rosa Blumenfeld II birth record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: 915; Laufende Nummer: 6466,Year Range: 1883, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Births, 1851-1901
Two more sons followed Rosa, but neither survived to adulthood. Joseph was born on September 30, 1885, but died just sixteen days later on October 16, 1885, in Neustadt.
Joseph Blumenfeld birth record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: 915; Laufende Nummer: 6468, Year Range: 1885, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Births, 1851-1901
Joseph Blumenfeld death record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Personenstandsregister Sterberegister; Bestand: 6552; Laufende Nummer: 915, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Deaths, 1851-1958
And Albert was born on July 17, 1887, in Neustadt, and died on November 29, 1890, in Neustadt. He was only three years old.
Albert Blumenfeld birth record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: 915; Laufende Nummer: 6470, Year Range: 1887, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Births, 1851-1901
Albert Blumenfeld death record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Personenstandsregister Sterberegister; Bestand: 6557; Laufende Nummer: 915
Description Year Range: 1890, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Deaths, 1851-1958
The three children who survived all married. Moses III married Sara Rothschild on April 1, 1908, in Oberaula, Germany. She was born to Juda Rothschild and Fanny Katz on July 8, 1885, in Oberaula.
Moses Blumenfeld III marriage record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: 920; Laufende Nummer: 6351, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Marriages, 1849-1930
Although I have no records to substantiate the date, other family trees report that Moses III and Sara had one child, a son Julius (labeled Julius Blumenfeld III on my tree) born April 4, 1909. More on Julius to come in my next post.
Moses III’s brother Hermann Blumenfeld III married Else Rosa Drucker on November 20, 1911, in Battenberg, Germany. Else was born in Battenberg on June 30, 1888, to Jakob Drucker and Julie LeBach.
Hermann Blumenfeld IV marriage record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Signatur: 1036, Year Range: 1911, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Marriages, 1849-1930
Hermann III and Else had three children. Erich was born in Neustadt, Germany, on April 4, 1913 or 1914 (documents differ).1 His sister Hilde was born on June 18, 1915, in Neustadt.2 And Liselotte Brilea Ingeborg Blumenfeld was born on November 23, 1917, in Marburg, Germany.3
The third surviving child of Meier IIB and Sarchen, Rosa Blumenfeld II, married Julius Hess on May 2, 1910, in Neustadt. He was born in Duedelsheim, Germany, to Loeb Hess and Amalia Strauss on June 27, 1878. As far as I’ve been able to determine, Rosa and Julius did not have any children.
Rosa Blumenfeld II marriage record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: 915; Laufende Nummer: 6520, Year Range: 1910, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Marriages, 1849-1930
Meier Blumenfeld IIB died on February 9, 1922, in Neustadt, at the age of seventy. His wife Sarchen died eight years later on January 30, 1930, in Duedelsheim, where her daughter Rosa was living. Meier and Sarchen were predeceased by their sons Joseph and Albert and survived by their other three children, Moses, Hermann, and Rosa, and their four grandchildren, Julius, Erich, Hilde, and Liselotte.
Meier Blumenfeld IIB gravestone, found at the LAGIS Hessen Jewish Cemetery website at https://www.lagis-hessen.de/en/subjects/idrec/sn/juf/id/5416
Sarchen Moses Blumenfeld gravestone, found at LAGIS Hessen Jewish Cemetery website, at https://www.lagis-hessen.de/en/subjects/xsrec/current/2/sn/juf/mode/base?q=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
Meier IIB and Sarchen were fortunate not to live to see what happened to those three children and one of those grandchildren.
TO BE CONTINUED
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For April 4, 1913, I have this source: Erich Blümenfeld
Birth Date: 4 Apr 1913, https://www.wiewaswie.nl/personen-zoeken/zoeken/document/srcid/062981177#011, Regionaal Archief Zutphen; Den Haag, Nederland; Bevolkingsregisters, Ancestry.com. Netherlands, Population Registers Index, 1720-1944. For 1914, I have Erich’s Palestine immigration files, found at https://www.archives.gov.il/archives/Archive/0b07170680034dc1/File/0b07170680f4a85c ↩ - Amsterdam City Archives, located at https://archief.amsterdam/indexen/deeds/9853344d-c3b0-56a3-e053-b784100ade19; Yad Vashem entry, found at https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=en&itemId=899652&ind=1 ↩
- Liselotte Blumenfeld, Declaration of Intention, The National Archives at Atlanta; Atlanta, GA; Petitions For Naturalization , Compiled 1906-1978; NAI: 1275754; Record Group Title: Records of District Courts of the United States; Record Group Number: 21, Petitions For Naturalization, Compiled 1906-1978, Ancestry.com. Kentucky, U.S., Naturalization Records, 1906-1991 ↩
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I look forward to the next posts…I have never seen the name Sarchen for Sara(h) before – that’s why I love reading your posts. Always learning something new 🙂
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I think it’s just a German endearment for a child—like little Sara. I’ve seen it used on many girl’s name—Malchen, Trudchen, etc.
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If Erich was born in April and Hilde in June, it seems much more probable Erich’s birth year would be 1913. Fourteen months is pretty tight, though not impossible, of course. Sounds like a sad episode coming up next.
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That’s an excellent point! Thanks, Eilene.
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Was she one of THE Rothschilds?
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No—it’s a more common name than one would think!
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I had no idea. I thought it was given to that family specially. I thought I remembered reading the history decades again and that was in it.
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There’s a blog written by another genealogist all about her Rothschild relatives—not related to THE Rothschilds!
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Oh wow. I had no idea.
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https://rothschildsofvoehl.com/ She hasn’t written much recently, but it’s an interesting blog.
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Thanks, Amy!
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I read that last post. Wow, fascinating!!!
Here is what I remember learning about the name Rothschild: “The Rothschilds are a pan-European Jewish family, who take their name from the house of their 16th century ancestors, ‘zum roten Schild’ (at the sign of the red shield), in Frankfurt’s Jewish ghetto.” I distinctly remember reading that THIS family got their name that way. So either others copied the surname, or the history I read at the time was mistaken, or all the Rothschilds are connected somewhere. We’ll go with the middle one for now hah.
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Got me! I would say it’s probably somewhat the first or the third. It seems all Hessian Jews overlapped somewhere!
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Here’s what Ancestry says: “German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by a red sign (Middle High German rōt ‘red’ + schilt ‘sign shield’) the earliest recorded example dating from the 13th century. The famous banking family of this name took it from a house so marked in the Jewish quarter of Frankfurt-am-Main but the name has also been adopted by many Ashkenazic Jews unrelated to the family. ” And Wikipedia says pretty much the same thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild
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Well, there you go, Luanne! I probably should throw out most of what I learned over 20 years ago.
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LOL! I wouldn’t go THAT far! 🙂
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Hehehe.
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*ago (not again)
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