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Moses Rothschild’s Three Oldest Children and Their Families in the 1930s: Samuel, Rudolph, and Albert

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The 1930s proved to be challenging years for some members of Moses Rothschild’s family. His widow Mathilde died on November 7, 1931, in the Bronx;1 she was 82 years old and had outlived her husband by more than thirty years. She had lived to see the births of all of her grandchildren and even three great-grandchildren.

Most of Moses and Mathilde’s children and grandchildren continued to live in New York in 1930. Their oldest son Samuel and his wife Sallye and their 24-year-old son Milton were living in the Bronx, and Samuel and Milton were salesman for a “private concern.”2 Milton married the following year on October 23, 1931, just two weeks before his grandmother Mathilde died.3 Milton married Blanche Zimmerman, the daughter of Bernard Zimmerman and Gertrude Landan. She was born in the Bronx, New York, on November 4, 1908 or November 4, 1907.4 Milton and Blanche would have two children.

The second old son Rudolph Rothschild and his wife Rebecca (listed as Rae here) were living in Manhattan in 1930, and Rudolph was a jewelry salesman.5 Their son Mortimer was living with his wife Amelia and her mother Selma Spiegel in Manhattan. Mortimer was a traveling salesman, and Amelia was a school teacher in 1930.6 They would later have two children.

Rudolph’s younger son Alvin does not appear on the 1930 US census, but according to his entries on the 1940 US census, Alvin was living in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1935.7 And on July 19, 1936, he married Marjorie Breuer in Wilmington, Delaware, where, according to their marriage record, they both were living and where Alvin was working as a store manager.

Alvin Rothschild marriage certificate, Ancestry.com. Delaware, U.S., Marriage Records, 1750-1954

According to their wedding announcement in the Wilmington News-Journal, Alvin was working for Neisner Brothers, Inc. Marjorie was the daughter of Charles Breuer and Mariann Gold and was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on April 29, 1914.8

“Breuer-Rothschild,” The News Journal, Wilmington, DE, July 18, 1936, p. 4

Alvin appears to have been one of the first of the descendants of Moses Rothschild to move out of New York City. Could the Depression have forced him to seek opportunities elsewhere? Alvin and Marjorie would later have three children.

As for the family of Albert, the third son of Moses and Mathilde Rothschild,  his widow Rose and their youngest daughter Dorothy (17) were living in the Bronx in 1930; Dorothy was working as a clerk in the film industry.9 Albert and Rose’s oldest daughter Rae, like her cousin Alvin, had left New York City by 1930 and was living with her husband Gerald Jordan and daughter Alberta (8) in Buffalo, New York, where Gerald was the manager of a clothing store.10 I again wonder whether economic conditions forced Gerald to move out of New York City.

Josephine, the second oldest daughter of Albert and Rose, was living with her husband Charles Hall in 1930 in Manhattan, and she was working as a secretary and Charles as an electrician.11 The third daughter Theresa was living in the Bronx with her husband Arnold Blumenfeld and their two young children; Arnold was an insurance agent.12  I could not locate Theresa’s sister Lillian and her husband Max Blumenfeld (Arnold’s brother) on the 1930 census.

On January 31, 1932, Albert and Rose’s youngest daughter Dorothy married Sidney Spiegel in the Bronx.13 When I saw the surname Spiegel, I wondered if Sidney was related to Amelia Spiegel, who had married Dorothy’s cousin, Mortimer Rothschild, son of Rudolph Rothschild. But Sidney’s parents, Benjamin and Frieda Spiegel, were born in Galicia whereas Amelia’s parents Adolph and Ida Spiegel were born in Germany. Sidney was born in New York on September 28, 1911.

The year after Dorothy’s wedding,  Rae, Josephine, Theresa, Lillian, and Dorothy lost their mother Rose when she died on March 7, 1933, in New York.14 Rose had had many challenges in her life; she’d lost her only son Milton when he was not yet two years old. She’d lost her husband Albert in 1915 when she was only 39, and she’d had to raise her five daughters alone, including Dorothy who was just a year old at the time. Rose was survived by those five daughters and by her grandchildren.

My next set of posts will cover the families of Moses and Mathilde’s younger three children Theresa, Gertrude, and Aron during the 1930s.

 

 

  1. Mathilda Rothschild, Gender Female, Race White, Marital Status Widowed, Age 82
    Birth Date 19 Feb 1849, Birth Place Germany, Years in US 63 Years, Death Date 7 Nov 1931, Death Street Address 2033 Morris Ave, Death Place New York City, Bronx, New York, USA, Cause of Death Chronic Myocarditis and Nephritis, Arterial Hypertension
    Burial Date 9 Nov 1931, Burial Place Mount Carmel Cemt, Occupation House Wife
    Father’s Birth Place Germany, Mother’s Birth Place Germany Father Louis Selizmann [sic] Mother Theresa Selizmann [sic], Executor Sam Rothschild, Executor Relationship Son, Certificate Number 9230, New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Death Certificates; Borough: Bronx; Year: 1931, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Death Certificates, 1862-1948 ↩
  2. Samuel Rothschild and family, 1930 US census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Bronx, Bronx, New York; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 0200; FHL microfilm: 2341204, Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census ↩
  3. Milton Rothschild, Gender Male, Marriage License Date 23 Oct 1931, Marriage License Place Bronx, New York City, New York, USA, Spouse Blanche Zimmerman
    License Number 8578, New York City Municipal Archives; New York, New York; Borough: Bronx, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018; Milton S Rothschild Gender Male Marriage Date 29 Oct 1931 Marriage Place Manhattan, New York, USA Certificate Number 25564, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937. ↩
  4. Blanche Zimmerman, Gender Female Race White Birth Date 4 Nov 1908
    Birth Place Bronx, New York City, Bronx, New York, USA Residence Address E 138th St Bronx 639 Certificate Number 194 Father Benjamin Zimmerman Mother Gertrude Zimmerman Mother Maiden Name Landan, New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Birth Certificates; Borough: Bronx; Year: 1908, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Birth Certificates, 1866-1909. But another record shows she was born November 4, 1907: “New York, New York City Births, 1846-1909,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W84-31S : 11 February 2018), Blanche Zimmerman, 04 Nov 1907; citing Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, reference cn 194 New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 2,023,224. I do not know which is correct. ↩
  5. Rudolph Rothschild, 1930 US census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Page: 18B; Enumeration District: 0485; FHL microfilm: 2341294, Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census ↩
  6. Mortimer Rothschild, 1930 US census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Page: 18B; Enumeration District: 0485; FHL microfilm: 2341294, Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census ↩
  7. Alvin Rothschild, 1940 US census, Year: 1940; Census Place: Kingston, Luzerne, Pennsylvania; Roll: m-t0627-03554; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 40-147, Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census ↩
  8. Marjorie Breuer Rothschild, Gender Female, Race White, Birth Date 29 Apr 1914
    Birth Place Wilmington, Delaware, Death Date 9 Jan 2006, Claim Date 5 Apr 1976
    Father Charles Breuer, Mother Maryann Gold. SSN 343368015, Citizenship or Alien Status U.S. citizen. Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. ↩
  9. Rose Rothschild, 1930 US census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Bronx, Bronx, New York; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 0327; FHL microfilm: 2341208, Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census ↩
  10. Gerald Jordan and family, 1930 US census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Buffalo, Erie, New York; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 0294; FHL microfilm: 2341167, Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census ↩
  11. Charles Hall and family, 1930 US census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 1167; FHL microfilm: 2341316,
    Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census ↩
  12. Arnold Blumenfeld and family, 1930 US census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 1167; FHL microfilm: 2341316, Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census ↩
  13. Dorothy Rothschild, Gender Female, Marriage Date 31 Jan 1932, Marriage Place Bronx, New York, USA, Spouse Sidney Spiegel Certificate Number 936, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937 ↩
  14. Rose Rothschild, Age 56, Birth Year abt 1877, Death Date 7 Mar 1933, Death Place Manhattan, New York, USA, Certificate Number 6002, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948 ↩

Moses Rothschild’s Family 1920-1929: More Marriages, More Census Evasions

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For the family of Moses and Mathilde Rothschild, the Roaring Twenties began with the birth of their first great-grandchild, Alberta Jordan, daughter of Rae Rothschild and Gerald Jordan, on April 18, 1921, in the Bronx, New York. Alberta was the granddaughter of Albert Rothschild and Rose Katz and was presumably named for her grandfather, who had died in 1915.

The next major family event came on September 22, 1923, when Albert and Rose’s daughter Theresa, just seventeen years old, married Arnold Blumenfeld,1 a son of Elias Blumenfeld2 and Celia Finkelstein3 Arnold was born what is now Poland in the town of Czestchowa, on December 9, 1899,4 and immigrated to the US with his family on November 1, 1909.5 Arnold was working as a scaling clerk in a slaughterhouse when he registered for the World War I draft and was living in Manhattan with his family in 1920.6 Theresa and Arnold would have two children, Albert, born September 8, 1926, in the Bronx,7 and presumably named for Theresa’s father Albert Rothschild, and a daughter who may still be living.

Arnold Blumenfeld World War I draft registration, Registration State: New York; Registration County: New York, Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

Following Theresa’s marriage in September, 1923, her older sister Josephine married Charles H. Hall on October 14, 1924.8 He was the son of Joseph Hall and Minnie Golden and was born in Glen Cove, New York, on December 7, 1899.9 On his World War I draft registration, Charles reported that he was an apprentice electrician and living in the Bronx with his family.

Charles Harding Hall World War I draft registration, Registration State: New York; Registration County: Bronx, Draft Card: H, Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

That brings us up to 1925 and the 1925 New York State census records for this family. In 1925 Mathilde Rothschild was living in the same building (maybe the same apartment?) in the Bronx as her daughter Theresa and Theresa’s husband Max Alexander and their three children, Frances (19), Herbert (15), and Albert (9), as well as Max’s sister Estelle. Max continued to work in the real estate business.

Mathilde Rothschild, Max Alexander and family 1925 NYS census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1925; Election District: 16; Assembly District: 08; City: New York; County: Bronx; Page: 35, District: A·D· 08 E·D· 16, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1925

Samuel Rothschild was also living in the Bronx with his wife Sallye and son Milton; he was in the novelties business.10 His brother Rudolph Rothschild was living in Manhattan with his wife Rebecca and sons Mortimer (25) and Alvin (21). Rudolph and Mortimer were salesmen, and Alvin was working in advertising.11

Gertrude Rothschild Lancelot (the family now having shortened the surname from Lancelotti, it appears) and her husband Charles and their children Milton (16) and Estelle (14) were living in Manhattan, and Charles continued to work as an artist for an engraving company.12

As for Rose Katz Rothschild, widow of Albert Rothschild, as I wrote earlier, I could not find Rose on the 1925 NYS census nor could I find her two youngest daughters, Lillian and Dorothy, on that census. But I did find Rose and Albert’s three oldest daughters on that census. Two of them, Rae Rothschild Jordan and Theresa Rothschild Blumenfeld, were living next door to each other in the same apartment building in the Bronx with their respective husbands and Rae’s daughter Alberta. Rae’s husband Gerald Jordan was working as a “manager.”  Theresa’s husband Arnold Blumenfeld was in the insurance business. Their sister Josephine Rothschild Hall and her husband Charles Harding Hall were living in the Bronx also; Charles was an electrician, Josephine a stenographer.13

Gerald Jordan and family, Arnold Blumenfeld and family 1925 US census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1925; Election District: 54; Assembly District: 08; City: New York; County: Bronx; Page: 20, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1925

Aron Rothschild, the youngest child of Moses and Mathilde, posed more challenges for me when it came to the 1925 NYS census. I could not find him or his wife Martha or son Melville anywhere on that census. Like his sister-in-law Rose Katz Rothschild and her two youngest daughters Lillian and Dorothy, Aron and his family all seem to have somehow evaded the enumerator.

The following years saw another marriage in the family when Rudolph Rothschild’s son Mortimer Maxwell Rothschild married Amelia Spiegel on April 14, 1927, in New York City. Amelia was born in New York on August 13, 1905, to Adolph Spiegel and Ida Jaffa.14

Also, Lillian Rothschild, Albert and Rose’s daughter, married Max Blumenfeld on June 29, 1929, in the Bronx.15 Max was the younger brother of Arnold Blumenfeld, Lillian’s brother-in-law and the husband of her older sister Theresa. Max was born on February 18, 1904, in Poland.16

Thus, the family was expanding throughout the 1920s. Next time we will see how they fared through the Depression of the 1930s.

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Theresa Rothschild, Gender Female, Marriage Date 22 Sep 1923, Marriage Place Manhattan, New York, USA, Spouse, Arnold Blumenfeld, Certificate Number 33859, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937 ↩
  2. Eliasz Dawid Blumenfeld, Birth Date 1862, Birth Place Czestochowa, Film 875329
    Line 123, JRI-Poland Shtetl CO-OP Volunteers, comp. Poland, Jewish Records Indexing-Poland, Births, 1550-1993. When I first saw “Blumenfeld,” I wondered if Arnold was a cousin, but once I realized his family was from Poland, not Germany, I knew there was no familial connection. ↩
  3. Celia Blumenfeld, [Celia Finkenstein], Gender Female, Race White, Marital Status Widowed, Age 75, Birth Date abt 1865, Birth Place Russia, Residence Street Address 1748 Washington Av, Residence Place New York, Years in US 30, Death Date 15 Aug 1940, Hospital Morrisania, Death Place New York City, Bronx, New York, USA, Cause of Death Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease Conestive Heart Failure, Burial Date 16 Aug 1940
    Burial Place Beth David Cemetery, Occupation Hwife, Father’s Birth Place Russia, Mother’s Birth Place Russia, Father, Aaron Finkenstein, Mother Sarah Finkenstein, Child, Aaron Blumenfeld, Informant Aaron Blumenfeld, Informant Gender Male, Informant Relationship Son, Executor Aaron Blumenfeld, Executor Relationship Son
    Certificate Number 7791, New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Death Certificates; Borough: Bronx; Year: 1940, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Death Certificates, 1862-1948 ↩
  4. BLUMENFELD Aron Icyk Eliasz Dawid Cyrla FINKELSZTAJN 6 Dec 1899 Czestochowa 119 12 1089 With parents 1232, Czestochowa Book of Residents 1870-1914 CRARG, JRI-Poland, at https://legacy.jri-poland.org/databases/jridetail_2.php ↩
  5. Arnold Blumenfeld ship manifest, The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC, USA; Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957; Microfilm Serial or NAID: T715; RG Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; RG: 85, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 ↩
  6. Arnold Blumenfeld, 1920 US census, Year: 1920; Census Place: Manhattan Assembly District 17, New York, New York; Roll: T625_1217; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 1205, Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census ↩
  7. Albert Blumenfeld, Gender Male, Race White, Birth Date 9 Sep 1926, Birth Place NY Bx, New York, Death Date 19 Oct 1989, Father Arnold Blumenfeld, Mother Theresa Rothschild, SSN 054200492, Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 ↩
  8. Charles H Hall, Gender Male, Marriage Date 14 Oct 1924, Marriage Place Manhattan, New York, USA, Certificate Number 27615, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937; Charles H Hall, Gender Male
    Marriage License Date 14 Oct 1924, Marriage License Place Bronx, New York City, New York, USA, Spouse Josephine F Rothschild, License Number 5830, New York City Municipal Archives; New York, New York; Borough: Bronx, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018 ↩
  9. Joseph Hall, 1900 US census, Year: 1900; Census Place: Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York; Roll: 1079; Page: 8; Enumeration District: 0726, Description
    Enumeration District: 0726; Description: Oyster Bay Town; Election District 8, Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census; Minnie I Golden, Gender Female
    Marriage Date 14 Sep 1896, Marriage Place Glen Cove, New York, USA, Spouse
    Joseph H Hall, Certificate Number 16959, New York State Department of Health; Albany, NY, USA; New York State Marriage Index, Ancestry.com. New York State, Marriage Index, 1881-1967. ↩
  10. Samuel Rothschild and family, 1925 NYS census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1925; Election District: 72; Assembly District: 02; City: New York; County: Bronx; Page: 17, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1925 ↩
  11. Rudolph Rothschild and family, 1925 NYS census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1925; Election District: 01; Assembly District: 11; City: New York; County: New York; Page: 11, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1925 ↩
  12. Charles Lancelot and family, 1925 NYS census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1925; Election District: 18; Assembly District: 23; City: New York; County: New York; Page: 3, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1925 ↩
  13. Charles Hall and family, 1925 NYS census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1925; Election District: 69; Assembly District: 08; City: New York; County: Bronx; Page: 5, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1925 ↩
  14. New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938″, , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24WQ-H78 : Tue Feb 20 22:32:18 UTC 2024), Entry for Mortimer Rottschild and Amelie Spiegel, 14 Apr 1927. ↩
  15. Lillian Rothchild, Gender Female, Marriage Date 29 Jun 1929, Marriage Place Bronx, New York, USA, Spouse, Max Blumenfeld, Certificate Number 4938, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937 ↩
  16. Elias Blumenfeld and family, 1910 US census, Year: 1910; Census Place: Manhattan Ward 12, New York, New York; Roll: T624_1020; Page: 3a; Enumeration District: 0474; FHL microfilm: 1375033, Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census; Max Blumenfeld ship manifest, The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC, USA; Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957; Microfilm Serial or NAID: T715; RG Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; RG: 85, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957; Max Blumenfeld, Social Security Number 056-09-6623, Birth Date 18 Feb 1904, Issue year Before 1951, Issue State New York, Last Residence 11367, Flushing, Queens, New York, USA, Death Date Apr 1971, Social Security Administration; Washington D.C., USA; Social Security Death Index, Master File, Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014; “New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938”, , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2CJ-G79S : Sat Mar 09 14:13:28 UTC 2024), Entry for Max Blumenfeld and Lillian Rothchild, 29 June 1929. ↩

Albert Rothschild’s Family 1915-1920: Loss and Survival

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The third son of Moses and Matilda Rothschild, Albert, was the first to die, and he died far too young.

On August 25, 1915, Albert, while a patient at Lloyd’s Sanitarium in New York City, drew up his last will and testament. According to this website, Lloyd’s Sanitarium was created by Dr. Henry William Lloyd in 1909 as a private hospital for the well-to-do.

Dr Lloyds Sanitarium from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York

Albert’s will1 provides evidence that Albert was at least financially comfortable although perhaps not wealthy. In it he provided for a $500 trust to be created for his mother, Mathilde. In 1915 $500 would be worth over $15,000 in today’s money—not a fortune, but still a generous bequest. The will also provided that his wife Rose would receive “a third of her dower rights” or alternatively $50 to $60 a month, or about $1500 a month or $18,000 a year in today’s money. Again, hardly a fortune. Albert named Rose as well as his brothers Samuel and Rudolph to be the executors of his estate. The will documents reveal that Rose and the children were living at 964 Simpson Street in the Bronx in 1915 (although they are not listed there on the 1915 New York State census).

Albert Rothschild Last Will and Testament

Albert Rothschild notice of probate

Albert Rothschild probate order

Albert died a month later on September 29, 1915, in Amityville, New York, out on Long Island, presumably at a hospital there.2 I do not know what the cause of death was (and ordering a copy of the certificate from Vital Records is prohibitively expensive), but it would certainly appear that Albert knew he was gravely ill a month earlier when he wrote his will. He was only 38 years old and left behind not only his widow Rose, but their five daughters, Rachael, then 19, Josephine (13), Theresa (9), Lillian (6), and Dorothy, only one year old.

In this way Albert was following in the footsteps of his father Moses, who also died in his thirties and left behind six children who were all quite young. Was it the same cause of death? Was Moses’ cause of death really general paresis or was there a genetic cause of death for both Albert and Moses? I don’t know.

As for Albert’s widow Rose and their five daughters, their lives continued. Rose remarried in 1917, in New York;3 her second husband was Craig Powis, born in New York on October 27, 1874, to Charles Powis and Jennie Armstrong.4 On his 1918 World War I draft registration, Craig’s occupation was reported as an engineer at the army base in Brooklyn, and he and Rose were living in Brooklyn.

Craig Powis World War I draft registration, Registration State: New York; Registration County: Kings, Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

But two years later in 1920, Rose was living with four of her daughters in the Bronx. Although she was using the last name Powis and reported her marital status as married, Craig was not listed as living with her. Rose was working as a salesperson in a dry goods store.  Perhaps Craig was living on the army base in Brooklyn. Perhaps the marriage had failed.

Rose Powis and family 1920 US census, ear: 1920; Census Place: Bronx Assembly District 1, Bronx, New York; Roll: T625_1130; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 42,  Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census

It’s hard to know because I cannot find Craig on the 1920 census nor can I find either Rose or Craig on the 1925 NYS census. However, it does appear that Craig may have married again because on the index of his death record on FamilySearch, it says that he died on July 14, 1926, in the Bronx and that his surviving spouse was named Anna. Of course, the index could be an incorrect transcription of the death certificate or it could just be a mistake. But in any event it does not appear that Craig was living with Rose in 1920.5

Living with their mother Rose in the Bronx in 1920 were her four younger daughters: Josephine (17), Theresa (14), Lillian (10), and Dorothy (5). Josephine was working as a billing clerk for a lumber company. The other three were still in school.6

Albert and Rose’s oldest daughter Rachael (now using Rae) was not living with her mother and sisters because she had married Gerald L. Jordan on July 17, 1919, in Brooklyn, New York. Gerald was born in Charleston, West Virginia, on June 9, 1892, to Louis Jordan and Bertha Schmitz.7 On his June 1917 World War I draft registration, Gerald was living in New York City and was the secretary and salesman for the David Cohen Sales Company. He claimed an exemption from military service because of “heart trouble.” I could not find Rae and Gerald on the 1920 census. They had a daughter born on April 18, 1921, in the Bronx, named Alberta.8 She was Moses and Mathilde Rothschild’s first great-grandchild, and I assume she was named for Rae’s father Albert Rothschild.

Gerald Jordan World War I draft registration, Registration State: New York; Registration County: New York, Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

The rest of the story of Albert Rothschild’s family will follow in subsequent posts.

  1. Albert Rothschild, Probate Date 25 Aug 1915, Probate Place Bronx, New York, USA, Inferred Death Date 1915, Item Description Probate Administration Records, #0335-0343, Mary Vander Roest-Charles V Schüll, 1915-1916, New York, Bronx Probate Administration Records; Author: New York. Surrogate’s Court (Bronx County); Probate Place: Bronx, New York, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999 ↩
  2. Albert Rotohschild [sic], Event Type Death, Event Date 29 September 1915, Event Place Amityville, Babylon, Suffolk, New York, United States. Event Place (Original) Amityville, New York, Entry Number 55476, “New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956”, , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2W-Y243 : Fri Mar 08 01:04:50 UTC 2024), Entry for Albert Rotohschild, 29 Sep 1915. ↩
  3. Rose Rothschild, Gender Female, Marriage License Date 1 Mar 1917, Marriage License Place Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, Spouse Craig Powis
    License Number 6232, New York City Municipal Archives; New York, New York; Borough: Manhattan; Volume Number: 3, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018 ↩
  4. Craig A. Powis., Sex Male, Age 52, Birth Year (Estimated) 1874, Marital Status Unknown, Father’s Name Charles, Father’s Sex Male, Mother’s Name Armstrong
    Mother’s Sex Female, Spouse’s Name Anna Powis, Event Type Death, Event Date 14 Jul 1926, Event Place The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States, Event Place (Original) Bronx, New York, New York, United States, Record Type death, Certificate Number cn 5497, “New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949”, , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WG3-NVM : 13 May 2022), Craig A. Powis, 1926. ↩
  5. See Note 4, supra. ↩
  6. See image above. ↩
  7. Gerald Lewis Jordan, Sex Male, Age 25 years, Birth Year (Estimated) 1892, Father’s Name Louis, Father’s Sex Male, Mother’s Name Bertha Schmitz
    Mother’s Sex Female, Spouse’s Name Rae Rotschild, Spouse’s Sex Female
    Spouse’s Age 21 years, Spouse’s Birth Year (Estimated) 1896, Spouse’s Father’s Name Albert, Spouse’s Father’s Sex Male, Spouse’s Mother’s Name Rose Katz, Event Type Marriage, Event Date 10 July 1917, Event Place Kings, New York, United States
    Source Details 10399, “New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938”, , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2CK-YV93 : Sat Mar 09 05:09:54 UTC 2024), Entry for Gerald Lewis Jordan and Rae Rotschild, 10 July 1917. Gerald L. Jordan Sex Male Father’s Name Louis Jordan Mother’s Name Bertha Schmitz Event Type Birth Event Date 9 Jun 1892 Event Place Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States, “West Virginia Births and Christenings, 1853-1928”, , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X556-8BP : 12 December 2019), Gerald L. Jordan, 1892. ↩
  8. Alberta L Jordan, Birth Date 15 Apr 1921, Birth Place Bronx, New York City, New York, USA, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Birth Index, 1910-1965 ↩

Moses Rothschild’s Family: Where Was His Widow in 1920?

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In my last post before the holiday last week, we saw that all six of Moses Rothschild’s children, his widow Matilda, and their nine grandchildren were all living in the Bronx. But by 1915, there were some changes.

Matilda and her youngest child Aaron, now 32, had moved back to Manhattan, and Aaron was working as a bead salesman.1 Samuel, Moses and Matilda’s oldest child, and his family were still in the Bronx, and he was working as a factory superintendent.2 But Rudolph, the second child, had, like his mother and brother Aaron, moved back to Manhattan with his wife and children; Rudolph was still working as a traveling salesman.

As for Albert, the third son, it took some doing to find him and his family on the 1915 NYS census because his surname was transcribed as “Nathschild” instead of Rothschild. At the time the census was enumerated in June, 1915, Albert and his family were living on St. Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan, and Albert was working as an importer. Sadly, within a few months Albert would pass away. That will be the story of my next post.

Albert Rothschild and family 1915 NYS census,New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 53; Assembly District: 23; City: New York; County: New York; Page: 39, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1915

Moses and Matilda’s two daughters were both still living in the Bronx in 1915. Theresa Rothschild Alexander,3 the older daughter of Moses and Mathilde, was living with her husband Max, their nine year old daughter Frances, and their four year old son Herbert Mortimer Alexander, who was born on September 1, 1910, in New York.4 A third child, Albert Alexander, was born on July 6, 1915, in New York, not long after the 1915 New York State census was taken.5 Theresa’s husband Max was in the real estate business.

Gertrude, the younger daughter, was living with her husband Charles Lancelotti (spelled Lancelot here),6 who was working as an artist, their seven year old son Milton, and their daughter Estelle, who was born on February 18, 1911, in New York City.7

With the outbreak of World War I in Europe and America’s subsequent entry into that war, three of the sons of Moses and Mathilde Rothschild as well as their two sons-in-law registered for the draft. Samuel’s registration shows that he was living in the Bronx and working as a superintendent in a celluloid factory owned by Rice & Hochster. From what I could find on the internet, it appears that Rice & Hochster was a leading manufacturer of women’s hair accessories.

Samuel Rothschild World War I draft registration, Registration State: New York; Registration County: Bronx, Draft Card: R, Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

Rudolph’s registration reveals that he also was employed by Rice & Hochster, but as a traveling salesman. He was living in Manhattan.

Rudolph Rothschild World War I draft registration, Registration State: New York; Registration County: New York, Draft Card: R, Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

Meanwhile, the youngest brother Aaron had married Martha Schoenholz on July 3, 1918, in New York.8 Martha was born in New York on November 3, 1890, to Max Schoenholz and Clothilde Herman.9 Aaron registered for the World War I draft on September 12, 1918, two months after his marriage to Martha. They were living in New York, apparently with Aaron’s sister Gertrude and her husband Charles Lancelotti, given the “c/o Lancellotti” on the registration. Aaron was self-employed as a wholesale merchant. Aaron and Martha’s son Melville Albert Rothschild was born a year later on July 22, 1919, in New York.10 I assume his middle name was for Aaron’s brother Albert.

Aaron Rothschild World War I draft registration, Registration State: New York; Registration County: New York, Draft Card: R, Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

As for Charles Lancelotti, his draft registration shows he was working as the art director at Standard Engraving Company and living in New York City.

Charles Lancellotti World War I draft registration,Registration State: New York; Registration County: New York, Draft Card: L, Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

And Max Alexander, Theresa’s husband, reported on his draft registration that he was a self-employed real estate broker. They were living in the Bronx.

Max Alexander World War I draft registration, Registration State: New York
Draft Card: A, Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

The 1920 census for the family of Moses and Matilda Rothschild does not show many changes. Samuel and his family were living in the Bronx and Samuel was the manager of a novelty house.11 Rudolph and his family were living in Manhattan, and Rudolph as well as his 20-year-old son Milton were working as ladies’ wear salesmen while Alvin, the younger son now 17, was working as an office boy in a wholesale business.12 Aaron, the youngest brother, was living with his wife and son in Manhattan, and he owned a wholesale bead and novelty business.13 Theresa and her husband Max Alexander and their two children were living in the Bronx, and Max was a real estate broker.14 And Gertrude and her husband Charles Lancelot(ti) were living in Manhattan with their two children, and Charles was still an artist for an engraving company.15

The only family member who has been difficult to locate on the 1920 census is Matilda Rothschild, Moses’ widow and the mother of their children. The only entry I can find for a Matilda or Mathilde Rothschild is this one for a widow with that name, but this record reports that she was born in Pennsylvania, whereas my Matilda was born in Germany. It also says she was 77 whereas my Matilda would have been 71 in 1920. This Mathilde Rothschild was living at 550 Park Avenue in Manhattan, which is at 62nd Street near Central Park. My Matilda’s children who lived in Manhattan (Rudolph, Aaron and Gertrude) were all living much further uptown.

Mathilde Rothschild 1920 US census, “United States Census, 1920”, , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV35-QX2 : Fri Mar 08 16:41:16 UTC 2024), Entry for Mathilde Rothchild, 1920.

What do you think? Is the Mathilde Rothschild living on Park Avenue in 1920 the widow of my cousin Moses Rothschild? I am not sure.

UPDATE: Thank you to my cousin Richard Bloomfield, who figured out that the Mathilde Rothschild on that census record was NOT my cousin’s widow. See his comment below. I guess Mathilde just somehow eluded the census enumerator.

Wishing all who celebrate Yom Kippur an easy but meaningful fast!

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Matilda Rothschild, 1915 NYS census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 52; Assembly District: 23; City: New York; County: New York; Page: 06, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1915 ↩
  2. Rudolph Rothschild, 1915 NYS census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 51; Assembly District: 23; City: New York; County: New York; Page: 36, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1915 ↩
  3. Max Alexander and family, 1915 NYS census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 33; Assembly District: 35; City: New York; County: Bronx; Page: 43, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1915 ↩
  4. Herbert M Alexander, Birth Date 1 Sep 1910, Birth Place Bronx, New York City, New York, USA, Certificate Number 9831, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Birth Index, 1910-1965 ↩
  5. Albert Edward Alexander, [Albert E Alexander], Gender Male, Race White
    Birth Date 6 Jul 1915, Birth Place New York Bx, New York, Death Date 15 Sep 1994
    Father Max Alexander, Mother Theresa Rothschild, SSN 114122501, Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 ↩
  6. Charles Lancelot and family, 1915 NYS census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 29; Assembly District: 34; City: New York; County: Bronx; Page: 20, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1915 ↩
  7. [illegible] E Lancellotti, Birth Date 18 Feb 1911, Birth Place Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, Certificate Number 11462, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Birth Index, 1910-1965. ↩
  8. Martha Schoenholz, Gender Female, Marriage Date 3 Jul 1918, Marriage Place Manhattan, New York, USA, Spouse Aaron Rothschild, Certificate Number 19662, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937. ↩
  9. Martha Schonholz Sex Female Race White Father’s Name Max Schonholz Father’s Age 31 Father’s Birthplace Germany Mother’s Name Clothilde Herman Mother’s Age 23 Mother’s Birthplace Germany Event Type Birth Event Date 03 Nov 1890 Event Place Manhattan, New York, New York, United States “New York, New York City Births, 1846-1909,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WMB-JL2 : 11 February 2018), Martha Schonholz, 03 Nov 1890; citing Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, reference cn 34007 New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,322,237. ↩
  10. Melville Albert Rothschild, [Melville Rothschild], Gender Male. Race White
    Birth Date 22 Jul 1919, Birth Place New York City, New York, [New York Cit], Death Date Jun 1978, Father Aron Rothschild Mother Martha Schoenholz, SSN 084037768, Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 ↩
  11. Samuel Rothschild and family, 1920 US census, Year: 1920; Census Place: Bronx Assembly District 2, Bronx, New York; Roll: T625_1133; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 161, Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census ↩
  12. Rudolph Rothschild and family, 1920 US census, Year: 1920; Census Place: Manhattan Assembly District 22, New York, New York; Roll: T625_1226; Page: 23B; Enumeration District: 1486, Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census ↩
  13. Aaron Rothschild and family, 1920 US census, Year: 1920; Census Place: Manhattan Assembly District 23, New York, New York; Roll: T625_1227; Page: 19B; Enumeration District: 1504, Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census ↩
  14. Max Alexander and family, 1920 US census, Year: 1920; Census Place: Bronx Assembly District 8, Bronx, New York; Roll: T625_1141; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 416, Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census ↩
  15. Charles Lancelot and family, 1920 US census, Year: 1920; Census Place: Manhattan Assembly District 23, New York, New York; Roll: T625_1227; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 1503, Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census ↩

Moses Rothschild’s Family: The Move to the Bronx 1900 to 1910

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The 1905 New York State census helped me locate the family of Moses and Mathilde Rothschild’s second-born son Rudolph; he was living with his wife Rebecca and their two children in New York City and working as a salesman. It looks like he was a “hail” salesman, but given how badly the enumerator spelled their names, I assume Rudolph was not selling frozen precipitation.

Rudolph Rothschild 1905 NYS census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1905; Election District: A.D. 23 E.D. 41 2; City: Manhattan; County: New York; Page: 13, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1905

But what about Rudolph’s mother and siblings? What does the New York State census show for them in 1905? His mother Mathilde and the three youngest children—Theresa (26), Gertrude (24), and Aaron (22)—were living together in New York City, and Gertrude was working as a stenographer and Aaron as a bookkeeper. Theresa and her mother listed their occupations as housework.

Matilda Rothschild 1905 NYS census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1905; Election District: A.D. 31 E.D. 13; City: Manhattan; County: New York; Page: 14, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1905

Samuel Rothschild and his wife Sallie also were living in New York City in 1905, and Samuel was working as a “superintendent,” specifics not given.1 His brother Albert was working as a traveling salesman and living in the Bronx with his wife Rose and daughters Rachael (or Rae, age 9) and Josephine,2 who was born on November 19, 1902.3

By 1910, there had been quite a few changes, including marriages, babies, and many relocations from Manhattan to the Bronx. Mathilde had moved from Manhattan to the Bronx and was living only with Aaron, her youngest child. Aaron was working as a traveling salesman in the trimmings business.4

Moses and Mathilde’s two daughters married between the 1905 NYS census and the 1910 US census. Theresa married Max Alexander on June 15, 1905, not long after that NYS census was enumerated.5 Max was born in New York on September 18, 1874, to Henry Alexander and Fannie Meyer.6 Theresa and Max had their first child on May 13, 1906, a daughter Frances.7 In 1910, Theresa, Max, and Frances were living in the Bronx, and Max had his own real estate office.8

Theresa’s sister Gertrude married Charles Lancelotti on November 27, 1907, in New York City. Charles was born in Italy on October 1, 1882, to Raphael Lancelotti  and Maria De Rosa.9 He had immigrated with his parents to the US as a young child. In 1900 he had been living with his parents and siblings in New York, working as a carpenter. In 1905, he was working as a bookkeeper. Gertrude and Charles’ first child, Milton, was born on November 23, 1908, in New York, and in 1910, they were all living in the Bronx, and Charles was working as an artist for an engraving company.10

Meanwhile, the three older sons of Moses and Mathilde Rothschild were also all living in the Bronx in 1910. Samuel and his wife and son were living in the Bronx and Samuel was a superintendent of a comb factory.11 Rudolph and his family were also in the Bronx, and Rudolph continued to work as a traveling salesman.12

And Albert and his family also were in the Bronx, and Albert was working as a traveling furniture salesman. Albert’s family, however, had expanded since the 1905 NYS census. He and his wife Rose now had two more daughters: Theresa, born January 5, 1906,12 and Lillian, born December 9, 1909.13 Since Rose reported on the 1910 census that she had had six children of whom only four were living, I assume that there may have been another child who died before 1910 in addition to their son Milton, but I cannot find a birth or death record for that child.

Albert Rothschild and family 1910 US census, Year: 1910; Census Place: Bronx Assembly District 33, New York, New York; Roll: T624_1000; Page: 10a; Enumeration District: 1528; FHL microfilm: 1375013, Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census

Thus, in 1910 Moses Rothschild’s widow Mathilde and their six children and nine grandchildren were all living in the Bronx. Here’s a map showing where they were located as of that date.

 

But the next decade saw many changes, including departures from the Bronx.

 

 

  1. Samuel Rothschild, 1905 NYS census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1905; Election District: A.D. 31 E.D. 16; City: Manhattan; County: New York; Page: 50, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1905. ↩
  2.   Albert Rothschild, 1905 NYS census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1905; Election District: A.D. 34 E.D. 37; City: Bronx; County: New York; Page: 22, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State Census, 1905 ↩
  3. Josephine Isabel Rothschild, Gender Female, Race White, Birth Date 19 Nov 1902
    Birth Place Manhattan, New York City, New York, New York, USA, Residence Address E 127th Street 120, Certificate Number 48555, Father Albert Rothschild, Mother Rosie Rothschild, Mother Maiden Name Katz, New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Birth Certificates; Borough: Manhattan; Year: 1902, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Birth Certificates, 1866-1909 ↩
  4. Matilda Rothschild, 1910 US census, Year: 1910; Census Place: Bronx Assembly District 33, New York, New York; Roll: T624_1000; Page: 15a; Enumeration District: 1527; FHL microfilm: 1375013, Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census ↩
  5. Theresa Rothschild, Gender Female, Marriage Date 15 Jun 1905, Marriage Place Manhattan, New York, USA, Spouse Max Alexander, Certificate Number 12562, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937 ↩
  6. “New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938”, , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24MB-LP1 : Tue Feb 20 22:32:07 UTC 2024), Entry for Max Alexander and Theresa Rothschild, 15 Jun 1905. Max Alexander
    Birth Date 18 Sep 1874, Residence Date 1917-1918, Street Address 2385 Grand Concourse, Residence Place Bronx, New York, USA, Draft Board 21, Relative Theresa Alexander, Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 ↩
  7. Frances Alexander, Birth Date 13 May 1906, Birth Place Manhattan, New York, USA, Certificate Number 4332 S, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Birth Index, 1878-1909.  ↩
  8. Max Alexander and family, 1910 US census, Year: 1910; Census Place: Bronx Assembly District 35, New York, New York; Roll: T624_1003; Page: 1a; Enumeration District: 1613; FHL microfilm: 1375016, Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census ↩
  9. “New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938”, , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24HY-Y61 : Tue Feb 20 19:16:26 UTC 2024), Entry for Charles Lancellotti and Gertrude Rothschild, 27 Nov 1907. Charles Lancellotti, Social Security Number 063-07-0924, Birth Date 1 Oct 1882, Issue year Before 1951, Issue State New York, Last Residence 10453, Bronx, Bronx, New York, USA, Death Date Aug 1967, Social Security Administration; Washington D.C., USA; Social Security Death Index, Master File, Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 ↩
  10. Charles Lancellotti and family, 1910 US census, Year: 1910; Census Place: Bronx Assembly District 33, New York, New York; Roll: T624_1000; Page: 3b; Enumeration District: 1523; FHL microfilm: 1375013, Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census ↩
  11. Samuel Rothschild and family, 1910 US census, Year: 1910; Census Place: Bronx Assembly District 32, New York, New York; Roll: T624_996; Page: 5b; Enumeration District: 1422; FHL microfilm: 1375009, Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census ↩
  12. Theresa Rothschild, Gender Female, Race White, Birth Date 15 Jan 1906, Birth Place Bronx, New York City, Bronx, New York, USA, Residence Address E. 144th Street 673, Certificate Number 506, Father Albert Rothschild, Mother Rose Rothschild
    Mother Maiden Name Katz, New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Birth Certificates; Borough: Bronx; Year: 1906, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Birth Certificates, 1866-1909 ↩ ↩
  13. Lillian Rothschild, Gender Female, Race White, Birth Date 9 Dec 1909, Birth Place Bronx, New York City, Bronx, New York, USA, Residence Address Cauldwell Av. 955, Certificate Number 8964, Father Albert Rothschild, Mother Rose Rothschild
    Mother Maiden Name Katz, New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Birth Certificates; Borough: Bronx; Year: 1909, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Birth Certificates, 1866-1909 ↩

Moses Rothschild, Part III: Is this his headstone?

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Once again the genealogy village came through to help me try and find out when my second cousin, three times removed, Moses Rothschild, died. This time I was helped by Lara Diamond, who is an amazing genealogist and the author of Lara’s Jewnealogy. Lara emailed me to tell me that there was a photograph at the JewishData.com website of a headstone at Union Field cemetery for a man named Moses Rothschild . She hadn’t been able to access the image since she does not subscribe to that site, but she suggested that I check it out. Thank you so much, Lara! I am very grateful.

I had to pay $18 to access the site, but I was so determined to find out whether my Moses is the one on the death certificate I obtained and on the FindAGrave entry that I paid it just to see that image. And here it is:

All I can read is the name, Moses Rothschild, and the words Waltersbruck, Hessia. The line underneath is partially legible, and it seems to end with 1885, so I think that must be the date of death. I tried manipulating the image—turning it into its negative, sharpening the focus, making it black and white, but even so I can’t decipher any more of the words.

I posted the image on Tracing the Tribe, but no one else could read any more of what was there. It looks like at some point I will need to go to Union Field Cemetery to see if it is more legible in person.

But I can read enough to surmise that this is likely the man on that April 1885 death certificate since the man buried here died in 1885 and is also quite likely my cousin Moses. Although the gravestone mentions Waltersbruck and I have Moses’ birthplace as Zimmersrode, I now realize that he may have actually been born in Waltersbruck. The first page of the birth register lists Waltersbruck as one of the towns included in the register.

Also, Moses’ father Simon was born in Waltersbruck as were some of Moses’ siblings. I am willing to assume that Moses also was born or from Waltersbruck. Thus, I am pretty persuaded that this headstone is for my cousin Moses and that he was in fact the man who died on April 11, 1885, and who is the decedent on the death certificate I obtained from Susan Glenn.

UPDATE: Thank you to my cousin Richard Bloomfield who showed me that on Moses’ birth record it says Waltersbruck. I had that record, but never could have deciphered the handwriting! Here it is. 

If I am able to get to see the gravestone in person at some point, perhaps I’ll be able to decipher whatever was inscribed on the stone that I cannot decipher from the photograph. But for now, I am comfortable believing that Moses Rothschild, my second cousin, three times removed, died on April 11, 1885, at an asylum on Ward Island in New York City and is buried at Union Field Cemetery. He was only 37 years old and left behind his widow Mathilde and six children ranging in age from three year old Aaron to eleven year old Samuel.

With that issue now more or less resolved, I can move on to tell the stories of Mathilde and their children.

Moses Rothschild, Part I: When Did He Die?

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This summer’s posts up to now have all been devoted to the John Nusbaum photo album, but now it’s time to return to the Blumenfelds and my more traditional genealogy work. When last I wrote about the Blumenfelds back on May 29, 2024, I wrote about Levi Rothschild, the third child of Gelle Blumenfeld Rothschild. To refresh everyone’s recollection (including my own), Gelle was the third child and only daughter of Moses Blumenfeld. And Moses was the older brother of my three-times great-grandmother Breine Blumenfeld Katzenstein. Here’s a chart showing where I am in my research of the Blumenfeld family

But now it’s time to turn to Gelle Blumenfeld Rothschild’s next child, Moses Rothschild, and he has a far different story from those of his other siblings. Unlike his two older brothers Seligmann and Levi, he left Germany as a teenager and came to the United States.

Moses was born on August 30, 1848, in Zimmersrode, Germany. He immigrated to the United States as a young man, but I cannot be certain exactly when because there are two ship manifests for men named Moses Rothschild and both could be the one I am looking for. One manifest has a Moses Rothschild arriving in New York at age fifteen in 1865, meaning he was born in 1850.1  Another Moses Rothschild arrived on July 31, 1868, at twenty-five, meaning he was born in 1843.2 Neither of those two Moses Rothschilds was born in 1848, assuming their ages were accurately reported, but both are pretty close.

I could only find one man named Moses Rothschild living in New York on the 1870 census, and he was 22, so born in 1848 in Germany like “my” Moses Rothschild. He was living on the Lower East Side; unfortunately the census does not provide any occupational information.3 But it seems likely that this was the right Moses Rothschild.

On December 8, 1872, in New York City, Moses Rothschild married Mathilde Seligmann, the daughter of Ludwig Seligmann and Therese Rosenthal.4  Her death record says that she was born on February 19, 1849, in Germany,5, but I have no birth record to back that up. Based on various records including census records and records for her siblings, I believe she was born in Darmstadt, Germany, but I am not certain because some trees claim she was born in Mainz, Germany, and emigrated from there. I have yet to resolve that conflicting information. 

Moses and Mathilde had six children. Their first was Samuel Seligmann Rothschild, born July 21, 1873, in New York, New York.6 Second born was Rudolph Rothschild, born in New York on March 17, 1875.7 The third son was Albert Rothschild, born January 2, 1876, in New York.8 Finally, a daughter was born on August 22, 1878, in New York.9 She is identified as Theresa (presumably for Mathilde’s mother) on almost all records, but on the 1880 census, she is listed as Betsy. I assume that was a mistake on the part of the census enumerator. On February 10, 1880, Moses and Mathilde’s fifth child was born; her name was Grethe, but she was later known as Gertrude.10

In 1880, the family was living at 322 East Third Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. In addition to Moses and Mathilde and their five children, two of Mathilde’s brothers, August and Carl were living with the family as well as a servant. Moses was working as a butter dealer, and his brother-in-law August was working as a grocer.

Moses Rothschild 1880 US census, Year: 1880; Census Place: New York City, New York, New York; Roll: 881; Page: 20c; Enumeration District: 307, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census

One more child was born to Moses and Mathilde after the 1880 census—their son Aron. He was born on August 17, 1881, in New York.11 If the transcribed birth information on Ancestry is correct, it appears that the family had moved from lower Manhattan to 344 East 78th Street uptown when Aron was born.

Trying to find Moses in the New York City directories during the 1880s was tricky because there were multiple men with that same name. For example, in 1880, the year Moses is listed as living at 322 East Third Street in Manhattan in the 1880 census record, there were three men named Moses Rothschild in the NYC directory, none of whom were living at that address: one was an agent living at 340 East 77th Street, closest to where Aron would be born in 1881, one was a milliner living at 622 Fifth Avenue, and one was a “pedlar” living at 284 Third Avenue, almost two miles from 322 East Third Street where the family was in 1880.

There is no 1881 NYC directory, but in 1882 there were now only two men named Moses Rothschild, both “pedlars,” and one was still living at 284 Third Avenue uptown, the other at 25 Rutgers Street all the way downtown.12 The 1883 directory has two men named Moses Rothschild, one an agent, the other a meat dealer at 281 Second Avenue.13 I don’t know if one of those is my Moses.

The 1884 NYC directory is even more confusing. Now there are FOUR men named Moses Rothschild: two meat dealers, one grocer, and one insurance agent.14 I have no way of knowing if any of them were my Moses. And this continues. In 1886 there are three Moses Rothschilds, a driver, an insurance agent, and a meat dealer at 284 Second Avenue.15

I would have thought that my Moses was most likely the meat dealer, who was at 284 Second Avenue. But in the 1888 directory, there is a Matilda Rothschild, listed as the widow of Moses, living at 163 East 104th Street, and there are still three other listings for Moses Rothschilds: the insurance agent, a clerk, and the meat dealer at 284 Second Avenue.16 So either 1) the directory listed my Moses after he was dead or 2) Moses the meat dealer was not my Moses or 3) there were two men named Moses Rothschild married to women named Matilda/Mathilde. Later directories include listings for Matilda, widow of Moses, at various addresses.

The 1900 census does show Mathilde is listed as a widow and Moses is missing from the family, but the children are there, meaning this is the right Rothschild family. They were now living at 49 West 114th Street.

Matilda Rothschild 1900 US census, Year: 1900; Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Roll: 1154; Page: 9; Enumeration District: 0841, Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census

So Moses does seem to have died sometime between 1886 and 1900. But I have not located a death record for Moses. I have searched The New York City Municipal Archives as well as Ancestry and FamilySearch, but with no luck. There is a FindAGrave listing for a Moses Rothschild at Union Field Cemetery in Queens,17 but it has no gravestone photograph nor any dates for birth or death, so I do not know whether that is for my Moses Rothschild, and even if I did, it provides no useful information. It does appear that Mathilde’s brother August was buried at the same cemetery in 1916, however, so perhaps that is a useful bit of circumstantial evidence.18

Because I couldn’t find a death record for Moses, I began to wonder whether Mathilde was not really a widow, but a woman whose husband had abandoned or divorced her. There is, however, other circumstantial evidence suggesting that Moses had died by 1898 and had not divorced or abandoned Mathilde: the names of his grandchildren.

Moses’ third son Albert was the first to marry. On May 4, 1895, he married Rosie Katz, for whom I have little background information except that she was born in Germany in 1875.19Their first daughter, Rachel, was born in New York in March 1896, but more to the point of this post, Albert and Rose named their second child and first son Milton, born on September 26, 1898.20

Moses’ next child to marry was his second oldest child Rudolph. He married Rebecca Schlossberg on April 17, 1898, in New York. Rebecca was born in North Carolina in about 1877 to Max Schlossberg and Fanny Otterbourg.21 Rudolph and Rebecca’s first child was named Mortimer Maxwell Rothschild; he was born on October 28, 1899, in New York.22

Samuel, Moses’ first-born, married Sallye Livingston on September 4, 1898, in Chicago, Illinois.23 Sallye was the daughter of Aaron and Magdalena Livingston, and she was born in Missouri on October 14, 1868.24 Sallye and Samuel’s first son was named Milton Samuel Rothschild. He was born on March 5, 1906.25

Do you see a pattern here? The oldest son of all three of Moses’ oldest three children had names that began with an M. In fact, as we will see, the three younger children of Moses and Mathilde also named their oldest sons with names that start with M. So I am inferring from this that Moses had died before that first M grandson was born on September 26, 1898, and probably died before 1888 when Mathilde is listed as a widow in the NYC directory.

But why is there no death record for Moses? If anyone has any suggestions for where to find it, please let me know.

I will be back with more on the family of Moses Rothschild in September. My children are all arriving today and so I will be focusing on them until Labor Day!

  1. Moses Rothschild, ship manifest, The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC, USA; Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897; Microfilm Serial or NAID: M237; RG Title: Records of the U.S. Customs Service; RG: 36, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 ↩
  2. Moses Rothschild, ship manifest, The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC, USA; Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897; Microfilm Serial or NAID: M237; RG Title: Records of the U.S. Customs Service; RG: 36, Description Ship or Roll Number: Ariel, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 ↩
  3. Moses Rothschild, 1870 US census, Year: 1870; Census Place: New York Ward 11 District 23 (2nd Enum), New York, New York; Roll: M593_1028; Page:  787B, Description Township: New York Ward 11 District 23 (2nd Enum), Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census ↩
  4. “New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938”, , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2CN-VN8G : Fri Mar 08 21:51:45 UTC 2024), Entry for Moses Rothschild and Matilda Seligmann, 8 December 1872. ↩
  5. Mathilda Rothschild, [Mathilda Selizmann], Gender Female, Race White
    Marital Status Widowed, Age 82, Birth Date 19 Feb 1849, Birth Place Germany
    Years in US 63 Years, Death Date 7 Nov 1931, Death Street Address 2033 Morris Ave
    Death Place New York City, Bronx, New York, USA, Cause of Death Chronic Myocarditis and Nephritis, Arterial Hypertension, Burial Date 9 Nov 1931
    Burial Place Mount Carmel Cemetery, Occupation House Wife, Father’s Birth Place Germany, Mother’s Birth Place Germany, Father Louis Selizmann, Mother Theresa Selizmann, Executor Sam Rothschild, Executor Relationship Son, Certificate Number 9230, New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Death Certificates; Borough: Bronx; Year: 1931, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Death Certificates, 1862-1948 ↩
  6. Samuel Rothschild birth record, “New York, New York City Births, 1846-1909,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:27BV-JW5 : 11 February 2018), Samuel Rothschild, 21 Jul 1873; citing Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, reference cn 114503 New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,322,065. ↩
  7. Rudolph Rothschild birth record, New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Birth Certificates; Borough: Manhattan; Year: 1875, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Birth Certificates, 1866-1909; Rudolph Rothschild, Birth Date 17 Mar 1875, Birth Place New York, Claim Date 3 Apr 1940, SSN 111071339, Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 ↩
  8. Albert Rothschild birth record, Gender Male, Race White, Birth Date 2 Jan 1876
    Birth Place Manhattan, New York City, New York, New York, USA, Residence Address 7th Street 256, Certificate Number 198376, Father Moses Rothchild, Mother Mathilda Rathchild, Mother Maiden Name Seligman, New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Birth Certificates; Borough: Manhattan; Year: 1876, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Birth Certificates, 1866-1909 ↩
  9. Theresa Rothschild birth record, Teresa Rothschild, Gender Female, Race White
    Birth Date 22 Aug 1878, Birth Place Manhattan, New York City, New York, New York, USA, Residence Address 7 Street 244, Certificate Number 239687, Father Moses Rothschild, Mother Matilda Deligman Rothschild, Mother Maiden Name Seligman, New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Birth Certificates; Borough: Manhattan; Year: 1878, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Birth Certificates, 1866-1909 ↩
  10. Grethe Rothschild birth record, Grethe Rothschild, Gender Female, Race White
    Birth Date 10 Feb 1880, Birth Place Manhattan, New York City, New York, New York, USA, Residence Address E. 5 Street 622, Certificate Number 277695, Father Moses Rothschild, Mother Matilda Seligman Rothschild, Mother Maiden Name Seligman, New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Birth Certificates; Borough: Manhattan; Year: 1880, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Birth Certificates, 1866-1909 ↩
  11. Aron Rothchild, Gender Male, Race White, Birth Date 17 Aug 1881, Birth Place Manhattan, New York City, New York, New York, USA, Residence Address E. 78th St. New York 344, Certificate Number 318749, Father Moses Rothchild, Mother Matilda Rothchild, Mother Maiden Name Seligmann, New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Birth Certificates; Borough: Manhattan; Year: 1881, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Birth Certificates, 1866-1909 ↩
  12.  New York, New York, City Directory, 1882, Ancestry.com. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995, p. 1385. ↩
  13.  New York, New York, City Directory, 1883, Ancestry.com. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 ↩
  14.  New York, New York, City Directory, 1884, Ancestry.com. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995, p. 1523. ↩
  15.  New York, New York, City Directory, 1886, Ancestry.com. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995, p. 868. ↩
  16.  New York, New York, City Directory, 1888, Ancestry.com. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995, p. 1706. ↩
  17. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131249188/moses-rothschild: accessed August 17, 2024), memorial page for Moses Rothschild (unknown–unknown), Find a Grave Memorial ID 131249188, citing Union Field Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens County, New York, USA; Maintained by Athanatos (contributor 46907585). ↩
  18. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127067956/august-seligmann: accessed August 17, 2024), memorial page for August Seligmann (unknown–1916), Find a Grave Memorial ID 127067956, citing Union Field Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens County, New York, USA; Maintained by Athanatos (contributor 46907585). As we will see in later posts, Mathilde and several of their children are buried elsewhere. ↩
  19. Albert Rothschild and Rosie Katz marriage record, “New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938”, , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2CN-Q2R3 : Sun Mar 10 19:42:31 UTC 2024), Entry for Albert Rothschild and Rosie Katz, 4 May 1895. ↩
  20. Milton Rothschild birth record, Milton Rothschild, Gender Male, Race White
    Birth Date 26 Sep 1898, Birth Place Manhattan, New York City, New York, New York, USA, Residence Address Third Avenue 2068, Certificate Number 40264, Father
    Albert Rothschild, Mother Rosie Rothschild Mother Maiden Name Katz, New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Birth Certificates; Borough: Manhattan; Year: 1898, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Birth Certificates, 1866-1909 ↩
  21. Rudolph Rothschild and Rebecca Schlossberg marriage record, “New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938”, , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24ZZ-QWH : Tue Feb 20 21:40:11 UTC 2024), Entry for Rudolph Rothschild and Rebecca Schlossberg, 17 Apr 1898. ↩
  22. Mortimer Rothschild, World War I draft registration, Mortimer Maxwell Rothschild
    Birth Date 28 Oct 1899, Residence Date 1917-1918, Street Address 645 W 160st St
    Residence Place Manhattan, New York, USA, Draft Board 147, Relative Rudolph Rothschild, Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 ↩
  23. Samuel Rothschild and Sallye Livingston marriage record, Samuel S. Rothschild
    Age 25, Gender Male, Birth Year abt 1873, Marriage Type Marriage, Marriage Date 4 Sep 1898, Marriage Place Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Spouse Name Sallie Livingston
    Spouse Age 24, Spouse Gender Female, FHL Film Number 1030288, Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Marriages Index, 1871-1920 ↩
  24. Sallye Rothschild death record, Sallye Rothschild, [Sallye Livingston], Gender Female, Race White, Marital Status Married, Age 77, Birth Date 14 Oct 1868, Birth Place Missouri, Clarkville, Residence Street Address 1900 Grand Concourse
    Residence Place New, Death Date 14 Nov 1945, Death Street Address 1900 Grand Concourse, Death Place New York City, Bronx, New York, USA, Cause of Death Adenocarcinoma of Ascending Colon, With Metastasis, Burial Date 16 Nov 1945
    Burial Place MT Carmel Cemetery, Occupation Housewife, Father’s Birth Place Germany, Mother’s Birth Place Germany, Father Aaron Livingston, Mother Magdeline Livingston, Spouse Samuel Informant Thomas Rothschild, Informant Gender Male
    Informant Relationship Husband Executor Samuel Rothschild Executor Relationship Husband, Certificate Number 10938, New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Death Certificates; Borough: Bronx; Year: 1945, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Index to Death Certificates, 1862-1948 ↩
  25. Milton Rothschild birth record, Milton Rothschild, Birth Date 5 Mar 1906
    Birth Place Manhattan, New York, USA, Certificate Number 28041, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Birth Index, 1878-1909 ↩

Levi Rothschild’s Daughters Thekla Rothschild Weinberg and Frieda Rothschild Phillipsohn: One Survived, One Did Not

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This is the story of the last two children of Levi Rothschild and Clara Jacob who lived to adulthood, their daughters Thekla and Frieda. Both have heartbreaking stories though Thekla survived and Frieda did not.

The fifth child of Levi and Clara, their daughter Thekla, married Manuel Edward Weinberg on August 19, 1907, in Borken. Manuel was born in Lichenroth, Germany, to Lazarus Weinberg and Karoline Oppenheimer on October 11, 1880.

Thekla Rothschild and Manuel Weinberg marriage record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: 920; Laufende Nummer: 843, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Marriages, 1849-1930

Thekla and Manuel had a son Hans Herbert Weinberg born in Frankfurt, Germany, on November 2, 1908.1

After Kristallnacht in November 1938, Manuel Weinberg was imprisoned at Buchenwald for a short time,2 and that may have motivated the family to leave Germany. By 1940 if not before, the family had left Germany for France, and according to Yad Vashem, Thekla’s husband Manuel was deported in 1940 to the internment camp near Toulouse, France known as the Recebedou camp.3

According to one website, the camp of Recebedou was created in July 1940 to receive refugees and those who had been evacuated. It was turned into a hospital camp in February 1941. But conditions in the camp deteriorated over time due to the lack of adequate medical care and a shortage of food. By late 1941, there were 739 interns, many of whom were over 60 and ill; 118 of them died in the winter of 1941-1942. Manuel Weinberg was one of those who died; he died on March 4, 1942.4

I don’t know for certain whether Thekla or their son Herbert, as he came to be known, were also interned at Recebedou because there are no documents I can find that indicate that they were. However, I do know that they must have been in France because Herbert and his wife, Edith Seckbach, had a daughter Yvonne born in Toulouse, France sometime in 1943.5  I could not find a marriage record for Herbert and Edith, but according to other records, Edith was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in about 1918. 6

Wherever they were in France, somehow Thekla, Herbert, Edith, and their baby daughter survived. A document on Ancestry’s collection of Munich, Vienna and Barcelona Jewish Displaced Persons and Refugee Cards, 1943-1959 (JDC) indicates that as of November 1942, Thekla, Herbert, Edith, and Yvonne were in Vigo, Spain, which is almost seven hundred miles from Toulouse, France. How they got there in the midst of the war is a story I do not know.

Ancestry.com. Munich, Vienna and Barcelona Jewish Displaced Persons and Refugee Cards, 1943-1959 (JDC)

From Vigo they went to Madrid as of December 26, 1943. The Refugee Card lists two people as the “parents,” which I assume really means sponsors in this situation. One was Walter Hirschmann, Thekla’s nephew, the son of her sister Betti Rothschild Hirschmann.7 The other, Jacob Bleibtreu, was a banker and later a governor of the New York Stock Exchange who had immigrated to the US from Germany as a young man in 1909. He also was on the Greater New York Army and Navy Committee of the Jewish Welfare Board. Perhaps he knew Walter from the banking and broker business and agreed to help rescue his aunt and other family members.8

On March 23, 1944, Thekla, Herbert, Edith, and Yvonne all arrived in Philadelphia after sailing from Lisbon, Portugal. The ship manifest shows that they all had last been residing in Madrid, Spain, and were heading to Montreal, Canada under the sponsorship of the Joint Distribution Committee. Herbert reported that he was a chemist by occupation.

Thekla Weinberg and family passenger manifest, The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Series Title: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; NAI Number: 4492386; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: 85; Series: T840; Roll: 177, Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1798-1962

Herbert’s wife Edith must not have lived very long after their voyage from Portugal to Philadelphia because on September 8, 1946, Herbert married his second wife, Anna or Anya Grodzky, in Hochelaga, Quebec, Canada. Anna was born in Russia on June 18, 1910, and was a beautician. Herbert is listed as a widower on their marriage record and as a chemist by trade.

Hans Herbert Weinberg marriage to Anna Grodsky, Marriage Sep 8 1946 Westmount, Québec, Canada, Groom Herbert Hans Weinberg, Groom’s birth 1908 Germany, Bride Anna Goodsky, Certificate number upd46-128967, Quebec Marriage Returns, 1926-1997, found at https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10723-1831907/herbert-hans-weinberg-and-anna-goodsky-in-quebec-marriage-returns

The family all settled in Montreal, where Thekla died on March 11, 1962, at the age of 76.9 Herbert lost his second wife Anna on July 9, 1976.10 He died February 12, 2001, at the age of 92, and was survived by his third wife Sally Lazoff Bailen.11

I have not found any further information about Herbert’s daughter Yvonne despite searching everywhere I could and receiving help from members of Tracing the Tribe. I don’t know whether she died, married, or moved from Canada and changed her name. There just is no trace of her after a mention in her stepmother Anna’s obituary in 1976. She is not mentioned in her father’s obituary in 2001.12

Although Thekla Rothschild Weinberg survived the Holocaust, she lost her husband, her homeland, and, as we will now see, her sister Frieda to the Holocaust.

Frieda was born May 31, 1993, in Borken, Germany.  As we saw, she first married Leonard Marxsohn and was widowed and then married Paul Phillipsohn, with whom she had a daughter Hannelore, born December 3, 1926.

Unfortunately, I have no happy ending for Frieda, Paul, or Hannelore. On June 11, 1942, they were all deported to Theriesenstadt. None of them survived. According to Yad Vashem, Paul died on December 20, 1942. I have no exact dates for Frieda or Hannelore, only that they also died in about 1942.13

Thus ends the story of Levi Rothschild’s family. Although most of them survived the Holocaust and made it to the US, Israel, or Canada, they were scattered across the globe, and their lives were all forever changed. The family members who were killed must have left holes in their hearts forever.

 

 

  1. Hans Herbert Kaufmann Weinberg, Gender männlich (Male), Record Type Inventory, Birth Date 02 Nov 1908 (2 Nov 1908), Birth Place Frankfurt am Main,
    Last Residence Frankfurt am Main, Residence Place Frankfurt am Main, Father
    Edmund Weinberg, Mother Thekla Weinberg, Spouse Edith Seckbach, Notes Inventories of personal estates of foreigners and especially German Jews
    Reference Number 02010101 oS, Document ID 70370883, Arolsen Archives, Digital Archive; Bad Arolsen, Germany; Lists of Persecutees 2.1.1.1, Ancestry.com. Free Access: Europe, Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees, 1939-1947 ↩
  2. Arolsen Archives, 1 Incarceration Documents / 1.1 Camps and Ghettos / 1.1.5 Buchenwald Concentration Camp / 1.1.5.3 Individual Documents male Buchenwald / Individual Files (male) – Concentration Camp Buchenwald / Files with names from SYS and further sub-structure / Files with names from WECK /, Personal file of WEINBERG, EMANEL, born on 11-Oct-1880, Reference Code, 01010503 002.042.476, Number of documents, 1, found at https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/document/7388346 ↩
  3. Yad Vashem entries for Manuel Weinberg, found at  https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names/13545516 and at https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names/3229127 ↩
  4. See Note 3, supra. ↩
  5. Yvonne Miriam Weinberg, passenger manifest, The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Series Title: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; NAI Number: 4492386; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: 85; Series: T840; Roll: 177, Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1798-1962 ↩
  6. Edith Weinberg, passenger manifest, The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Series Title: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; NAI Number: 4492386; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: 85; Series: T840; Roll: 177, Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1798-1962. See also Edith Weinberg geb. Seckbach, Arolsen Archives, Digital Archive; Bad Arolsen, Germany; Lists of Persecutees 2.1.1.1, Description Reference Code: 02010101 oS,
    Ancestry.com. Free Access: Europe, Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees, 1939-1947 ↩
  7. It was Walter’s name on this card that led me to discover that he was the child of Betti and Emanuel Hirschmann. ↩
  8. “Jacob Bleibtreu, Former Governor of New York Stock Exchange, 90,” The New York Times, December 6, 1976. ↩
  9. Thekla Weinberg death notice, The Montreal Star, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Mon, Mar 12, 1962, Page 16. ↩
  10. Anna (Anya) Weinberg death notice, The Montreal Star, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Sat, Jul 10, 1976, Page 10. ↩
  11. Marriage of Herbert Weinberg to Sally Lazoff, Nov 15 1980, Côte St Luc, Québec, Canada, Groom Herbert Weinberg, Groom’s birth Nov 5 1908, Germany, Groom’s age 72, Bride Sally Lazoff, Bride’s birth Aug 15 1917, Québec, Canada, Bride’s age 63, Groom’s father Manuel Weinberg, Groom’s father’s birth Germany, Groom’s mother Thekla Rothschild, Groom’s mother’s birth Germany, Bride’s father Gedaliah Lazoff
    Bride’s father’s birth Russia, Bride’s mother Telia Brasgold, Bride’s mother’s birth Russia
    Certificate number upd80-141452, Quebec Marriage Returns, 1926-1997, found at https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10723-2419633/herbert-weinberg-and-sally-lazoff-in-quebec-marriage-returns. Herbert Weinberg death notice, The Gazette
    Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Mon, Feb 12, 2001, Page 35. ↩
  12. Anna (Anya) Weinberg death notice, The Montreal Star, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Sat, Jul 10, 1976, Page 10. Herbert Weinberg death notice, The Gazette, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Mon, Feb 12, 2001, Page 35. ↩
  13. See Yad Vashem entries at https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names/11607287 for Frieda, https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names/14969310 for Paul, and https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names/11607287 for Hannelore. ↩

Mathilde Rosenbaum Rothschild: Why Didn’t She Leave Germany?

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Several readers asked me whether I could learn more about why Mathilde Rosenbaum Rothschild did not go with her husband Hirsch Rothschild and their children to the United States in the 1930s, but stayed in Germany. Tragically Mathilde was eventually killed by the Nazis whereas her husband and children all survived.

I decided to dig a little deeper into Mathilde’s family to see if perhaps she’d stayed to care for elderly parents, but both of her parents died long before the Nazi era.1  Mathilde also had numerous siblings, including one who was killed at Auschwitz, but others escaped—to Israel, to the US, and to South Africa. In fact, this review of my research allowed me to realize something I had not noticed before. Mathilde’s sister Fanni Rosenbaum had married Hirsch Rothschild’s older brother Sigmund. They had escaped to South Africa.

I couldn’t trace all of her siblings, but given that her family was from Schluechtern and that Schluechtern is over 250 miles from Bremen, the city Hirsch listed as his wife’s residence on the passenger manifest, I don’t think that Mathilde was in Bremen to help with a family member.

I looked more closely at the address that had been added to Hirsch’s passenger manifest—Bahnhofsplatz 16, in Bremen, thinking that perhaps it was the address of a hospital where Mathilde might have been getting treatment.

Hirsch Rothschild, passenger manifest, p. 2, The National Archives At Washington, D.c.; Washington, D.c.; Series Title: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving At Miami, Florida; NAI Number: 2788508; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 – 2004; Record Group Number: 85 Description Roll Number: 086 Source Information Ancestry.com. Florida, U.S., Arriving and Departing Passenger and Crew Lists, 1898-1963

But “Bahnhofsplatz” means a plaza or square where the train station is located, and as best I can tell, in the late 1930s there was no hospital located near there. Rather, it was a place where there were hotels for those traveling to Bremen, an indoor swimming pool facility, and other public and private buildings. Although I can’t be certain, Banhofsplatz 16 may have been the address for a hotel in the 1930s.

Bahnhofsplatz-1928 Bremen Germany

Why would Mathilde be living in a hotel in Bremen? When Hirsch left Germany in the late 1930s, he listed his last permanent residence as Delmenhorst, a village about ten miles from Bremen.  It’s possible that Hirsch and Mathilde had been forced out of their home in Delmenhorst by then either by force or for better opportunities and had moved into a hotel in Bremen. As a  Jewish doctor, by 1938-1939, Hirsch would only have been allowed to treat Jewish patients, and Bremen had a larger Jewish population than Delmenhorst.  Although the passenger manifest indicates that Hirsch’s last permanent residence was Delmenhorst, not Bremen, I would think that staying in a hotel near the train station would not be considered a “permanent” residence so Delmenhorst would still have been more accurate.

I still don’t know why Hirsch left without Mathilde. Maybe he thought he’d go first and settle in and then send for her. I also don’t know when Hirsch left Germany because the ship manifest listing his arrival in Florida on December 18, 1939, was for a ship arriving from Havana, Cuba. I searched the Bremen passenger manifests and found two of his children on them—Edith and Edmund—but not Hirsch. And I don’t know how long Hirsch was in Cuba before being allowed to sail to the US. So…anything I write is total speculation on my part.

The only way I’ll be able to find an answer to these questions would be to ask one of Mathilde’s grandchildren. I have located a few of them but have not yet contacted them. Somehow it just feels intrusive to ask them why their grandmother was left behind. For now I am letting this sit as an unanswered question.

  1. Her mother died in 1913. Jeanette Rosenbaum, Maiden Name Sondheimer, Gender weiblich (Female), Death Age 72, Birth Date abt 1841, Death Date 23 Okt 1913 (23 Oct 1913), Death Place Schluechtern (Schlüchtern), Hessen (Hesse), Deutschland (Germany), Civil Registration Office Schluechtern, Father Moses Sondheimer, Mother
    Marianne Sondheimer, Spouse Salomon Rosenbaum, Certificate Number 47, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Personenstandsregister Sterberegister; Signatur: 5999, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Deaths, 1851-1958. Her father died in 1925. Salomon Rosenbaum, Gender männlich (Male), Death Age 83
    Birth Date abt 1842, Death Date 14 Juli 1925, Death Place Schluechtern (Schlüchtern), Hessen (Hesse), Deutschland (Germany), Civil Registration Office Schluechtern, Spouse Johannatta Certificate Number 40, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Personenstandsregister Sterberegister; Signatur: 6011, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Deaths, 1851-1958 ↩

Levi Rothschild’s son Hirsch: Leaving Germany with a Heavy Heart

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Levi Rothschild’s fourth child, Hirsch (also known as Harry) and his three children Gertrude, Edith, and Edmund all managed to leave Germany in time to survive the Holocaust. His wife and their mother Mathilde Rosenbaum, however, did not.

Gertrude, Hirsch’s oldest child, was the first member of the family to come to the US although her husband preceded her. She had married Gustav Rosbasch sometime before 1933, the year their first child was born. Gustav was born in Kremenchug, Russia (maybe now Ukraine?) on August 12, 1901. Gustav, a surgeon, came to the US on October 10, 1934, listing his last residence as Delmenhorst, Germany, a town in the Saxony state of Germany.  He reported his wife Gertrude as the person he had left behind in Delmenhorst, and his uncle Phillip Rosbasch of Rochester, New York, as the person he was going to in the US. 1

Gertrude arrived almost a year later with their two-year-old daughter. They arrived on September 8, 1935, listing their prior residence as Delmenhorst and listing “G. Rosbasch” in Rochester as the person they were going to; “H. Rothschild,” Gertrud’s father, was listed as the person they had left behind in Delmenhorst.2 Gustav and Gertrude had a second child in Rochester a few years after Gertrude’s arrival.

The next member of the family to escape to the US was Edith, Gertrude’s younger sister. She arrived in New York on May 28, 1937, listing her destination as Rochester, New York, where her sister Gertrude was living, and listing her father, “Dr. Rothschild” as the person she’d left behind in Delmenhorst, her prior residence.3

Edith and Gertrud’s brother Edmund arrived a year after Edith on June 24, 1938, in New York with his destination being New York City where his uncle Karl Rosenbaum, his mother’s brother, was living. Edmund identified his occupation as a physician, like his father and his brother-in-law Gustav, and listed his father “Dr. Harry Rothschild” of Delmenhorst as the person he left behind, but Edmund gave his last residence as Basel, Switzerland, not Delmenhorst.4

Thus, the three children of Hirsch and Mathilde Rothschild had all arrived before Kristallnacht in November 1938. Their father Hirsch did not arrive for over another year. His ship sailed from Havana, Cuba, and arrived in Miami on December 17, 1939, three months after World War II had begun. Hirsch listed his occupation as a physician and the person he was going to as his son “Edw. Rothschild” in Rochester, New York. He also listed his last residence as Delmenhorst.

Hirsch Rothschild passenger manifest, The National Archives At Washington, D.c.; Washington, D.c.; Series Title: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving At Miami, Florida; NAI Number: 2788508; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 – 2004; Record Group Number: 85, Roll Number: 086, Ancestry.com. Florida, U.S., Arriving and Departing Passenger and Crew Lists, 1898-1963

There is a notation on Hirsch’s line on the passenger manifest that reads, “Admitted on appeal 1-3-40.”  Also for the section listing the person left behind in the prior country, where the word None had been typed, someone added in handwriting, “Wife Mathilde Rothschild” living in Bremen, Germany. Another handwritten change indicates that his son had paid his passage; “self” was crossed out.

Were these additions of Mathilde’s name and the fact that his son was paying his way what helped Hirsch win his appeal? Why wouldn’t he have listed Mathilde before? Why was she living in Bremen, not Delmenhorst? When did Hirsch actually leave for Germany? How long had he been in Cuba before sailing from Havana to Miami in December 1939?

These are questions for which I currently do not have answers, just some speculation. Was Mathilde ill and hospitalized in Bremen? Is that why she hadn’t come with Hirsch to the US?

I don’t know, but we do know that by early 1940, Hirsch and his three children and his son-in-law and granddaughter were all safely in the US. Gustav and Gertrude and their two children were living in Rochester, New York, where Gustav was a doctor.5 Edith was also in Rochester, working as a housekeeper for another family.6 Edmund was working as a doctor at the Monroe County (New York) Infirmary and Home for the Aged in Brighton, New York, only four miles from Rochester.7 I could not locate Hirsch/Harry on the 1940 US census, but on April 25, 1942, when he registered for the World War II draft, he was at that time living in Rochester with Gertrude and Gustav and unemployed.

Harry Hirsch Rothschild, World War II draft registraiton, The National Archives At St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War Ii Draft Cards (Fourth Registration) For the State of New York; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147; Box or Roll Number: 522, Name Range: Rosser, Roscoe – Rought, Walter, Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942

But not long after that Hirsch/Harry must have moved to New Rochelle, New York, 350 miles from his children in Rochester, where he found work as the house physician for the Jewish Home for the Aged in New Rochelle. Harry died on April 18, 1945, in New Rochelle; he was 64. Heartbreakingly, his obituary revealed that as of that date with Germany’s surrender just a few weeks away, Harry and his children did not yet know what had happened to Mathilde, their wife and mother. The obituary states that Harry’s wife Mathilde “remained in Germany when Dr. Rothschild left the country. Relatives here have been trying through the Red Cross to learn her fate.”

“Death Claims Ex-Physician to Aged Jews,” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, April 14, 1945, p. 17

Yad Vashem, however, reveals what had happened to Mathilde. On November 18, 1941, she had been deported to the Minsk ghetto in Belarus where she was murdered on July 28, 1942. She was 57 years old. It must have been devastating for the family to learn this.8

But Mathilde and Harry were survived by all three of their children and by their grandchildren. Their daughter Gertrude and her husband Gustav remained in Rochester, New York, for the rest of their lives, where Gustav continued to practice medicine. He died on January 7, 1992, at the age of 90.9 Gertrude outlived him by five and a half years; she died on July 4, 1997; she was 86 years old.10 They were survived by their children and grandchildren.

Gertrud’s sister Edith married Abram Solomon (Jalomek) in 1943.11 As far as I can tell, they did not have children as none are listed in either of their obituaries. Edith died July 28, 2003, in Rochester, at the age of 92;12 her husband Abram died many years before on June 9, 1971, in Rochester.13

Edmund Rothschild, the youngest child of Hirsch and Mathilde, had registered for the draft on October 16, 1940.

Edmund Rothschild, World War II draft registration, National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Wwii Draft Registration Cards For New York State, 10/16/1940 – 03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147, Name Range: Roth, Cletus-Rotonde, Nicholas
Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947

He married Helene Lois Brown on August 17, 1941, in Buffalo, New York.  She was the daughter of David Brown and Lucile Manheim.14 Edmund and Helene would have two children. Edmund served in the US Army during World War II from August 27, 1943, until March 11, 1946.15 Edmund and his family then settled in Springville, New York, where he continued to practice medicine.16

Later Edmund and Helene retired to Fort Myers, Florida, where Helene died at age 71 on April 24, 1993.17 Edmund died in Cleveland, Ohio, almost exactly a year later on April 21, 1994; he was 81.18 According to his obituary in the Springville Journal, Edmund “was an old-fashioned family physician [who] cared not only for his patients but also for their families and their community. His home was always equipped to see patients after hours and house calls were made often.” The obituary also noted that he was a gifted artist. Edmund and Helene are survived by their children and grandchildren.19

The story of the family of Hirsch Rothschild and his family reminds me of how much the US gained when Germany’s persecution of the Jews forced so many to come here. Hirsch, his son Edmund, and his son-in-law Gustav were all doctors educated and trained in Europe. They came to this country as refugees, and Americans benefited from those skills and that education and dedication. But Mathilde Rosenbaum Rothschild’s death at the hands of the Nazis must remind us that the gifts we Americans may have received from those refugees were not given by them without enduring terrible heartbreak and loss on their part.

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Gustav Rosbasch, World War II draft registration, National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Wwii Draft Registration Cards For New York State, 10/16/1940 – 03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147, Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947; Gustav Rosbasch, passenger manifest, The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC, USA; Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957; Microfilm Serial or NAID: T715; RG Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; RG: 85, Ship or Roll Number: Scythia, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 ↩
  2. Gertrude Rosbasch, passenger manifest, The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC, USA; Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957; Microfilm Serial or NAID: T715; RG Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; RG: 85, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 ↩
  3. Edith Rothschild, passenger manifest, The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC, USA; Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957; Microfilm Serial or NAID: T715; RG Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; RG: 85, Ship or Roll Number: New York, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 ↩
  4. Edmund Rothschild, passenger manifest, The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC, USA; Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957; Microfilm Serial or NAID: T715; RG Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; RG: 85, Ship or Roll Number: New York, Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 ↩
  5. Gustav Rosbasch and family, 1940 US census, Year: 1940; Census Place: Rochester, Monroe, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02848; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 65-232, Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census ↩
  6. Edith Rothschild, 1940 US census, Year: 1940; Census Place: Rochester, Monroe, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02842; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 65-22, Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census ↩
  7. Edmund Rothschild, 1940 US census, Year: 1940; Census Place: Brighton, Monroe, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02678; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 28-9, Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census ↩
  8. Yad Vashem entry found at https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names/11619667 ↩
  9. Gustav Rosbasch, Social Security Administration; Washington D.C., USA; Social Security Death Index, Master File, Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 ↩
  10. Gertrude Rosbasch, [Gertrude Rothschild], Gender Female, Birth Date 3 Sep 1910, Birth Place Gudensberg, Death Date 4 Jul 1997, Claim Date 17 May 1973
    Father Harry Rothschild, Mother Mathilde Rosenbaum, Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 ↩
  11. “Marriage Licenses,” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, October 26, 1943, p. 12 ↩
  12. Edith Miriam Solomon, [Edith Miriam Rothschild], Gender Female, Race White, Birth Date 4 Jul 1911, Birth Place Gudensberg, Federal Republic of Germany, Death Date 28 Jul 2003, Claim Date 19 Jan 1976, Father Harry Rothschild, Mother Mathilde Rosenbaum, Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. ↩
  13. Abram Solomon, Social Security Number 128-09-6834, Birth Date 18 Nov 1899,
    Issue year Before 1951, Issue State New York, Last Residence 14617, Rochester, Monroe, New York, USA, Death Date Jun 1971, Social Security Administration; Washington D.C., USA; Social Security Death Index, Master File,  Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 ↩
  14. “Dr. Edward [sic] Rothschild to be Married Soon,” Bradford Evening Star and The Bradford Daily Record, Bradford, Pennsylvania · Friday, August 01, 1941, p. 5; Helene Brown Rothschild, Gender Female, Birth Date 30 Jul 1921, Birth Place Minneapolis, Minnesota, Death Date 24 Apr 1993, Father David Brown, Mother Lucile S Manheim,
    SSN 057382510, Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. ↩
  15. Edmund S Rothschild, Birth Date 30 Jul 1912, Death Date 21 Apr 1994, Cause of Death Natural, SSN 114342498, Enlistment Branch ARMY, Enlistment Date 27 Aug 1943, Discharge Date 11 Mar 1946, Page number 1, Ancestry.com. U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010. ↩
  16. “Founder of Medical Group Dies,” Springville Journal, Springville, New York · Thursday, May 05, 1994, p. 6. ↩
  17. “Helene L. Brown Rothschild,” News-Press, Fort Myers, Florida · Tuesday, April 27, 1993, p. 19; Helene Brown Rothschild, Gender Female, Birth Date 30 Jul 1921, Birth Place Minneapolis, Minnesota, Death Date 24 Apr 1993, Father David Brown, Mother Lucile S Manheim, SSN 057382510, Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. ↩
  18. See Notes 15 and 16, supra. ↩
  19. See Note 16, supra. ↩