Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Zlata Jermulowsky and husband Nathan Goldfoot's Pale of Settlement
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| Catherine II |
Catherine II of Russia made the Pale of Settlement the area in which Jews were to live. This is because Russia caused all Jews to be kicked out of the huge land of Russia due to anti-Semitism.
Catherine I, Empress of Russia, ruled from 1725 to 1727 and in May 1727, expelled all Jews resident in Little Russia. This order was then countermanded after her death.
Catherine II, The Great Empress of Russia, ruled from 1762 to 1796 and her Jewish policy was marked by a combination of liberalism and coercion. Jews were allowed to register in the merchant and urban classes in 1780, but permission was restricted to White Russia in 1786.
This marked the beginning of the PALE OF SETTLEMENT-which was started in 1791. During her last years, which were marked by the reaction from 1789 to 1796, she prevented the extension of Jewish settlement and in 1795, prohibited Jewish residence in rural areas.
The Pale of Settlement consisted of 25 provinces of Czarist Russia in Poland, Lithuania, White Russia (Belorussia) , Ukraine, Bessarabia and Crimea where Jews were permitted residence.
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| My little Bubba with her daughter, Ann and granddaugher, Harriet |
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| Lazdijai, Lithuania/Poland |
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| Bubba, her son Maurice and me! 1934-35 |
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| Zlata's sister, Jennie b: 1881 and my mother, Mildred Goldfoot |
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| Uncle Louis Jermulowske b: 1886 -Cattle Hide Dealer, in Weiser, Idaho |
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| Cattle truck owned by Zlata's son, Maurice who created Silver Falls Meat Packing Co.in Oregon He also dealt in hides. |
The White Russians or Belorussians had Jews who went there originally from Poland. Bessarabia was a province, formerly Romanian, now in the Moldavian and Ukrainian Republics. Jews were resident there when Bessarabia was annexed to Russia in 1812.
To live outside the area, one needed permission and was granted only to certain groups; members of the liberal professions with a high school diploma, big businessmen, skilled artisans, and ex-Cantonists.
The fate of Jews found outside the Pale without permission depended on the arbitrary decision of the local governor. The borders were changed from time to time, by the oppressive "Statute Concerning the Jews" of 1835.
By May 3, 1882, the MAY LAWS were passed. Jews were excluded from rural areas inside the Pale. They couldn't live or acquire property outside the Pale. As a result of these restrictions, Jewish economic development was severely hampered. The Pale was abolished in effect in August 1915, and legally in March 1917 at the end of WWI.
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| Zlata when very young, probably taken in Boise, Idaho. Born January 11, 1886. She immigrated at the age of 17 and landed in New York. My grandmother Hattie"Zlotta" came over from "Russia"on May 6, 1903 along with her sisters Jenny and Bessie. Bessie was 21 or 20. Jenny must have been about 11 years old. I have not found them in the Ellis Island Port yet. On the Declaration of Intention paper, she said she came here via Hamburg, Germany on the ship Altverten and landed in New York. She had black hair and brown eyes and was dark complected. She was only 64 years old when she died. This was written by a clerk in the circuit court.
She was married in November 20, 1905 to Nathan Goldfoot in Council, Idaho, where her sisters Bessie was married to Sam Criss and Jennie was married to Harry Criss and Louis Jermulowske was single and living in Council in 1901 or 1902. He didn't marry until 1908 and that was in Portland, OR. She probably lived in Cuprum, Idaho with her sisters, a small mining town close to Council before she married. Six years earlier in 1897, a store was established here. Then a post office was built in December.. Cuprum means copper. In 1898 the town went through a boom. It soon had 3 general stores, 2 hotels, a hospital/drug store, a blacksmith shop, 2 livery stables, a newspaper-The Seven Devils Standard, an assay office, 6 saloons, a wholesale liquor store, post office in one of the stores, a shoe repair and laundry, a barber shop and several eating establishments. From 1898 to 1900 the population as as high as 1,000. There were about 21 homes in the town at one time. It had grown because it had a copper smelter that was built in 1897. They had 3 operators trying to make the smelter work, but they all failed and the smelter was dismantled.
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Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_War
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
Preserving Our Litvak Heritage, a history of 31 Jewish communities in Lithuania by Josef Rosin and Joel Alpert, editor.
http://www.kolpack.com/packnet/prussia.html
Labels: Catherine I, Catherine II, Goldfus, Jermulowske, Lazdijai, Lithuania, May Laws, Pale of Settlement, Poland, Russia, Suwalki, Telsiai
Monday, November 23, 2015
Notes On My Paternal Grandfather, Nathan Abraham Goldfus/Goldfoot
Nadene Goldfoot
Nathan Abraham Goldfoot was known to his family without the middle name. That was found during research. He never did speak English, only Yiddish. My father was 4 years 18 days old when he was killed in a horse and wagon accident.
Nathan Goldfoot was born on August 5 or 15, 1871 according to www.findmypast or 1874 on a Saturday. It is possible he was born in Telsiai, Lithuania, commonly referred to as "Russia." According to the Goldfoot family in South Africa, they came from the Ukraine in Russia. On the 1910 census he said he was born in 1872. When he died, his wife was not told about the accident as it was Shabbas. She learned about it later. He had money hidden, and she never learned where it was.
Grandfather Nathan "Nahum" came over to the U.S.A in 1896 ? when he was 24 years old.(according to census information or death certificate. (July 19, 1912.) He died at age 40 years 11 months 4 days. That would be two years after being in Quebec. He's buried at the Shaarie Torah Synagogue Cemetery in Portland alongside his 2nd wife, Hattie "Zlata" Jermulowske. .
12/5/08 Not listed on ancestry.com UK incoming passengers 1878-1960, though many other Goldfoots are in there. http://tinyurl.com/668qq5. Died at age 39 years 11 months 14 days in horse and wagon accident in Portland, Oregon.
4/13/11: Feb 21, 1893 married in Dublin, Ireland to Lena Goldberg, daughter of Naftolee Goldberg, capmaker, who was deceased at the time of the marriage.. Nathan's father was listed as Morris Goldfoot, Distiller, also deceased. By June 14, 1893 was on ship headed for Winnipeg listed as single. Nathan is found on the www.findmypast.com list having left Liverpool, England, Londonderry (Irish port) bound for Quebec and Montreal in 1893 at the age of 22. If the age is correct, he was born in 1871 and not 1874 as I have thought.
Winston Churchill was born in 1874, and Nathan Goldfoot b: 15 August 1871 in possibly Telsiai, Lithuania or Ukraine, Russia and died 19 July 1912 in Portland, Oregon.
Nathan was born at the worst period in Russian history. The 1880's was another dark period of rising anti-Semitism, expulsions from large cities and many other general restrictions. It was mandatory for Jews "to keep the same names that had been entered in the vital records."
1881 saw Alexander II assassinated causing antisemitism. Jews were traders and artisans since Middle Ages and were now restricted in Russia including much of Poland. in Pale of Jewish Settlement. Serfdom was in Russia until 1861.
In 1891 22,000 Jews in chains led from Moscow and St. Petersburg to the Pale. It was hard to leave Russia. They had to cross borders illegally into Austria/Hungary, then to Vienna or Berlin. In Hamburg, Bremen and Rotterdam, thousands tried to find passage to America, standing in long lines. Then they crowded into steerage for 2 to 4 weeks of seasickness and hundreds sharing a toilet.
In 1904, 20,000 people did not pass the inspection and were sent back to Europe. Between 1881 and 1910 1.5 million Jews immigrated to USA. Of that 1 million were from Russia. Most Eastern European immigrants destined for Oregon stopped on the Lower East Side before traveling by train across the country to Portland. Others came more directly because relatives or families had already settled here.
Pograms in Russia= Nathan was age 9
May Laws of Jewish Discrimination, Nathan was age 10
Lithuania lies in the eastern Europe, on the coast of the Baltic Sea. In the north Lithuania borders with Latvia, in the east and south with Byelorussia, in the south-west with Poland and with the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation.
12/20/08 I found him in Quebec arriving in 1893 on ship Parisian. Reference RG76; microfilm C-4539. He contracted to get off at Winnipeg. He was number 29520 on the ship of 8 men and 2 women passengers. Parisian was the 1st large steamer of the Allen Line taking immigrants to Canada. It weighed 5,359 tons and sailed first on May 1881. It took 13 1/4 days from Liverpool, England to Canada and took 18 days from Glasgow, Scotland.
His name, Nathan,and Natan is a Jewish name from the ten Polish Provinces of Kalisz, Kielee, Lomza, Lublin, Pietrkow, Plock, Radom, Siedlce, Suwalki, and Warsaw. Poland was partitioned in 1772, 1792 and 1795. Then it was part of Russia. Nathan must be the anglicized name.
Naum\Nakhim\(Nahum 1:1) Variants: Nakhim (L), Nokhim (L,P,V), Nokhum (L), Nukkhem, Nukhim (P,V) Nukhimche(P). (L )means Lithuania, present-day Lithuania and northern Belarus. (P) means Poland, the 10 Polish provinces, and (V) Volhyn, present day Zhitomir, Rovno, Luts'k and Volyn regions.
4/13/11: Dublin In 1911 the city was 83% Catholic, 13% Church of Ireland, 2% Presbyterian and Methodist and 2% others, including a growing Jewish presence.” Nathan was there in this year.
4/2/15 Nathan lived at 13 Arbutus Place, South Circular Road, Dublin Ireland in 1893 when he married Lena Goldberg. I found this about the address: from a man in 1949 in a nursing home located just down the street at 102 South Circular Road, Portobello, (now renumbered as no. 18), at a house that had been the home of the President’s father, the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, Isaac Herzog, throughout the 1920s. (He later moved the short distance to 33, Bloomfield Avenue for the remaining years of his ministry here before becoming Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel.) He was accordingly born in the same house where Chaim Herzog spent most of his Dublin childhood and where his gifted brother, the late Ya’acov Herzog, had been born in 1921." Nathan left this addresss, at least 4 months later after February 21, 1893 when he married Lena.
The cholera pandemic, beginning in India in 1881, did not subside until 1896, when it had spread across the Far East, Middle East, Russia,and Germany. More than 300,000 people died of cholera in famine-stricken Russia alone.
He was 38 years old in 1910 at the time of the 1910 census, but 37 years, 11 months and 4 days old in 1912 when he died according to the death certificate. (I now have him figured to have been 39 years 11 months 14 days old when he died. He died on a Friday. (It was reported in the newspaper that he was 45 at the time of death.) He lived at 265 Arthur St. S., Portland, Oregon. He married Addie Hattie "Zlotte" Jermulouske (my grandmother) on November 20, 1905 in Council, Idaho. (Volume 3, page 405) The census stated that he had been married for 6 years in l910. He was 32 years old when he married Hattie. They had only been married 6 years when he was killed in an accident. Nathan was 6 years older than his wife. I thought he came to either the Baltimore, MD port, or the Philadelphia, Penn. Port, or some other port. But I found him on www.findmy past as coming from Londonderry, Ireland to Quebec on 9 June 1893, so he may have come in from Quebec. 1910 census, 6th Ward, Dist. 169, series T624, roll 1285, part 2, page 210B , Portland, Multnomah, Oregon. Listed as Goofoot. They lived at 265 Arthur St. in Portland. Next door was Moses Schnitzer and wife Becky with children Sadie, Joseph, Barney, Harry, Louis, and Fannie. Listed this as 2nd marriage.
My mother told me that he had been married before, but had no children. His wife had blamed him for this. He divorced her and married my grandmother in Council, Idaho. They then had five children in their six or eight years of marriage. My father, Maurice, was only about 4 yrs old) when his father died. He remembered sitting on his father's lap and combing his beard.
He said he was a junk dealer on the 1910 census. He had a wagon and a horse. One day the horse was out of hand and ran. He was injured and unconscious and was taken to the hospital. A friend would not get my grandmother as it was Shabbus (the Sabbath). He died without telling her where his money was hidden. It was probably hidden in the hay in the horse barn. No one ever found it. (Read newspaper article below.)
2/1/04: Oregon Daily Journal Newspaper, July 19, 1912: SHE SEEKS HUSBAND WHO FAILS TO RETURN; BODY IS AT MORGUE N. Goldfoot, Expressman Who Was Killed in Runaway Unidentified Many Hours.
After lying 12 hours fatally injured and unidentified at St. Vincent's hospital, where he had been rushed in the Red Cross ambulance, after having been hurled from his express wagon when his horse ran away, Nathan Goldfoot, aged 45 years, died this morning, without regaining consciousness, and was not identified until his wife called at the morgue.
When the expressman was picked up by passersby at East Twenty-eighth and Belmont streets, and the wagon, which was badly wrecked, several blocks further on, an effort was made to learn the man's identity, but there was no license tag on the wagon and no papers in the man's pockets. Late last night Mrs. Goldfoot reported to the police that her husband was missing and when Detective Litherand, who took the case up this morning, compared the report of the accident and the one of the missing man, the identification became possible.
Goldfoot resided at 265 Arthur street, was 45 years old and leaves a widow and three children. She was pregnant with my aunt Ann who was then born later on November 11, 1912. The wrecked express wagon and the horse are at a livery barn at 145 East Seventh street.
In the mad flight of the horse down the street, the wagon narrowly missed a collision with an auto, which was stopped by a pedestrian who saw the horse plunging down the street. The widow was prostrated when she found the body.
The Morning Oregonian Saturday, July 20, 1912: WIFE SEEKS MATE; DEAD Man Hurt in Runaway Dies at Hospital: Unknown to Spouse. While Mrs. Nathan Goldfoot of 268 Arthur street searched "high and low" for her husband Thursday night and for several hours yesterday morning, he was lying unconscious at St. Vincent's Hospital, a victim of a runaway accident. Not until he had been dead for more than an hour did the worried wife finally learn of her husband's fate.
Goldfoot was an expressman, 45 years of age. While on his way home Thursday afternoon, his horse ran away and collided with a tree, hurling him to the pavement, inflicting injuries from which he failed to regain consciousness. He remained unconscious from the time of the accident until he died. He had no papers from which his identity might be ascertained and there was no number or name on his express wagon by which he could be identified.
On the death certificate, it says his father's name was John Goldfoot. It actually was Chaim but this probably sounded like John to the nurse. He was born in Russia and his father was born in Russia. We know his father's name was Chaim Itzak as that is what the headstone says. (on jewishgen.org, I have found a different name for his father-Movshsa ben Josel Goldfus.) There are Chaims listed in Telsiai. It was his wife who thought she knew the name of his father. Was she wrong? I don't know.
At this time, I do not know his brother's name who he left Russia with . Supposedly they went to England. The brother stayed there, and Nathan travelled to the U.S. This was oral history through a relative in England that my brother met.
My father was about 4 years old when he died, so not enough information was passed on. He had filed for his first papers (Pa) for citizenship.
He should be on the 1900 Portland census. I'll try to check. (Have never found him there.)
Jewish immigration into the American continent did not really begin until the enactment of the May Laws in Russia in the 1880's (American Origins, Pine,p. 351)
12/24/02 Contact with Mike Posnick who is the other Goldfoot researcher besides Abraham Goldberg. (Abraham turned out to be Rabbi Abraham Goldberg who was slaughtered in Jerusalem by terrorists while praying "davening" in a synagogue. I never knew he was a rabbi. He told me that his Goldfus family lived in Laukuva, Lithuania, which was the southern-most town in the former Telsiai district of the Kovno province of the Russian Empire. The town is located at the crossroads of the Kaunas-Klaipeda and Taurage-Riga highways. He went on to say that we believe that all of the Jewish Goldfus(s) and Goldfoot families are related to one another. All appear to have originated in the area around Telsiai. Those who adopted the name Goldfoot all appear to have resided in the British Isles for at least a short time before moving elsewhere. (My grandfather, Nathan was in England before moving to Dublin, Ireland.)
Note from Mike Posnick, Researcher of Goldfoot: Nathan may have been travelling at the time of the 1900 census. That would explain why you can't find him. He also may have been using a different name, or the census taker or census indexer may have mispelled his name. Anything is possible.
It's not surprising that the eldest child was born where your grandmother's family lived. It was common for a daughter to return to her parents' home to give birth, especially for a first child. One finds this common in Eastern Europe as well as in the United States and Canada.
Are there any family stories about where, when, and how your grandparents met? They might shed some light on where Nathan was at the time of the 1900 census. Also, does a birth record exist for the first child? Have you seen it? It might contain some helpful fact(s).
I would agree with your comment that all of the living Goldfeet are accounted for, Hopefully, the research I am presently doing and planning to do will yield connections. I would appreciate it if you would pursue the subject of naturalization papers filed by your grandfather. If either first or second papers can be found, it will assist us in connecting him to the larger family. I will make a point of looking for him among the passenger manifests when I am next in Salt Lake City was Washington, D.C.
Mike
On his death certificate of July 1912 it states he had been here 13 years. That may mean he was in Oregon for 13 years. I also have that he came to this country in 1896. There is a 1 by the address of 265 Arthur Street. Moses (Maurice Goldfoot)-my father, was born at home at 277 Baker Street in 1908. 6/8/08 Gold Foot: ?????? ?????? and a try at pronouncing them would be Zoloto Peshkom
2/28/04 I heard from Chaim Goldfus in Jerusalem. He is a Phd and teaches classical archaeology and his cousin is also Chaim Goldfus, the insurance agent. They are both named for their grandfather Haim Goldfus from Leukova, Lithuania. According to his father, all the Goldfuses are connected and they are all from Lithuania. There are also Goldfuses that are not Jewish. He is a relative of Avraham Goldberg. He says that common characteristics among the Goldfuses he knows are highly moralistic, straight people proud of carrying the name and more.
6/23/04 I found a Goldfuss on passenger and immigration lists: Philadelphia, 1800-1850 on ship Johann Andreas from Tonnengin port of departure to Philadelphia on March 7, 1805 in Nat'l archives #425 #8 list #20.
1/13/06 I found a Max Goldfoot in Boston, Suffolk, Mass on 1910 census 19 April age 32 b: 1878. He was a junk dealer. (So was Nathan Goldfoot). Max and Rebecca immigrated in 1895. They probably came through the Boston port.
wife: Rebecca age 30, sons Harry age 7 and Robert age 2 and Florence 2 mo old. They were Russian Jews who spoke Yiddish. He could be the brother of Nahum, younger by 4 years.
I also found a Rose Goldfoot on the 1910 census 26 April in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 10 in the Home for Hebrew Orphans. She was Russian Jewish and spoke Yiddish and English.
5/20/06 a Joseph Goldfoot, b: 1891, came over to the Philadelphia port on 28 May 1906. He was a school boy originating in Russia, spoke Hebrew, and came from Queenstown, Dublin, Ireland on the ship Haverford. He was meeting an uncle who lived on 32nd North Broad, Trenton, New Jersey.
9/21/06 About 800 Jews came to Oregon under the auspices of the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) founded by trustees of the Baron de Hirsch Fund in 1900. They lent settlers money for train tickets. With the help of Portland's Hebrew Benevolent Association, Ben Selling would locate work and housing. Settlers frequently became junk peddlers with money for a horse and wagon lent to them by the Hebrew Benevolent Association. This must be what had happened to Nathan Goldfoot. (The Immigrants' Children by Polina Olsen).
1/13/07 Mike Posnick found Nathan on www.findmypast emigrating from Londonderry, Ireland in 1893 to Quebec Canada port. The ship was the Parisian steamship of the Allan Line. He was 22 years old. An Abraham, Lina, Rachel, and Sarah left in 1894 from Liverpool and Londonderry. Only 47 people were on this small ship. In Find My Past, there were 3 ships leaving Londonderry for Canada in 1893. The ship "Vancouver" left two time; 16th June 1893 and 21st July 1893. The Labrador left 15 Sept 1893. I bet it was the Vancouver, and that's how he got to Portland. (Could Lina be Lena who married my grandfather?
He probably took the train across; there would be records of his entry into the US if he crossed in 1895 or after, but not if he went directly from Quebec to the US in 1893:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~holdenclan/albans.htm
He wouldn't have required a passport at that time; in 1893 the border wasn't properly monitored and the Europe --> Canada --> US route was popular precisely because it avoided the US ports and therefore US inspection.
A US census should let you know when he came to the US from Canada.
10/16/08 I found a Pearl Goldfoot who died 5 July 1990 in North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the Jewishgen burial registry. She is in plot 4-D-51. She's buried in the Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
Nathan: June 14, 1893 on Parisian ship of Allen line (British 1881-) from Londonderry, Ireland to Winnipeg at age 22. b: 1871.
12/9/09 [edit] Jews in Telsiai
The Jewish community was proud of its renowned yeshiva, or rabbinical college. In 1941, the Telshe yeshiva was resettled in Cleveland, Ohio by a group of faculty members who escaped the Holocaust. The original yeshiva building still stands in Telšiai.
Under the subsequent Nazi German occupation in World War II, large Jewish population of Telšiai was almost completely annihilated.
Telsiai or Telzh in Yiddish, it is in Kovno Province. Telshi is the name of the town and the district. In 1900 there were 3,088 Jews living there. It is 42 miles West of Siauliai. and is in the NW part of Lithuania.
12/18/10 Interesting that I found an 11 yr old Nathan Goldbont going from Hamburg to NY via London from Suwalki, Poland on 1 May 1881 to 30 May 1881. (Suwalki, Poland is where my paternal grandmother, Hattie "Zlata" Jermulowske b: Lazidai, Suwalki, Lithuania, found herself living when part of Lithuania was taken over by Poland. This had not happened to Telsiai, which was further east.
2/2/11: Found an 11 yr old Nathan Goldbont on Hamburg Passenger List written in German traveling alone from Suwalki, Poland on May 30, 1881. Interesting. Going to New York via London on Viola.
Ship Name: Parisian from Liverpool, England to Londonderry, Ireland to Winnipeg
Years in service: 1881-
Funnels: 2
Masts: 4
Shipping line: Allan (British) 1893 Liverpool Mar. 23 Halifax Apr. 02 Londonderry - Portland. Allan & State LineTransatlantc ID . Was this Portland, Maine or Portland, Oregon as Nathan came to reside in Portland, Oregon.
Ship description: Built by Robert Napier & Sons, Glasgow, Scotland. Tonnage: 5,395. Dimensions: 441' x 46'. Single-screw, 15 knots. Compound engines. Four masts and two funnels. Steel hull.
History: Passengers: 150 first, 100 second, 1,000 third. Maiden voyage: Liverpool-Halifax-Boston, March 10, 1881. Re-engined with triple expansions in 1899 and also had her original funnels replaced with a single large one. Served in various North Atlantic routes, including Glasgow-New York run. Sold to Italian shipbreakers in January 1914, and soon afterwards was dismantled at Genoa.
3/1/11 Found Nathan Abraham Goldfoot in Dublin South on Ireland, Civil Registration Index for marriages; film number 101257, volume #2, page # 631, digital folder # 4179389, image # 00022. Marriage listed Jan-Mar 1893. Then on June 14, 1893 he was heading for Winnipeg on the ship Parisian. Something happened. He was alone.
Search collectionAbout this collectionName: Nathan Abraham Goldfoot
Registration District: Dublin South
Event Type: MARRIAGES
Registration Quarter and Year: Jan - Mar 1893
Estimated Birth Year:
Age (at Death):
Mother's Maiden Name:
Film Number: 101257
Volume Number: 2
Page Number: 631
Digital Folder Number: 4179389
Image Number: 00022
5/12/11: He died on a Tuesday at age 40 years 11 months 4 days. He was born on a Saturday.
I just found in Telsiai, Lithuania the birth of Nokhum Abram Goldfus on 1/1/1871. Father was Movsha, grandfather Liosel, mother was Beile. Could this be my grandfather? The year is right but not the month or day.
11/18/11 On ancestry.com he was listed as either Goofoot or Garfoot and does have PA, which means Declaration of Intent; this is if he understood the question for on the 1910 census of April 16, 1910 he did not read or write.
The Jewish community was proud of its renowned yeshiva, or rabbinical college. In 1941, the Telshe yeshiva was resettled in Cleveland, Ohio by a group of faculty members who escaped the Holocaust. The original yeshiva building still stands in Telšiai.
Under the subsequent Nazi German occupation during World War II, large Jewish population of Telšiai was almost completely annihilated. Telšiai has a rare, surviving wooden synagogue.[4]
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| Nathan "Nochum" Abraham Goldfoot b: August 5, 1872, d: July 19, 1912 from Telsiai, Lithuania to England to Ireland to Council, Idaho to Portland, Oregon |
Nathan Abraham Goldfoot was known to his family without the middle name. That was found during research. He never did speak English, only Yiddish. My father was 4 years 18 days old when he was killed in a horse and wagon accident.
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| Nathan's 2 sons: Charles b: 1906 in Council, Idaho and Morris "Moshe" b: 1908 in Portland, Oregon |
Grandfather Nathan "Nahum" came over to the U.S.A in 1896 ? when he was 24 years old.(according to census information or death certificate. (July 19, 1912.) He died at age 40 years 11 months 4 days. That would be two years after being in Quebec. He's buried at the Shaarie Torah Synagogue Cemetery in Portland alongside his 2nd wife, Hattie "Zlata" Jermulowske. .
12/5/08 Not listed on ancestry.com UK incoming passengers 1878-1960, though many other Goldfoots are in there. http://tinyurl.com/668qq5. Died at age 39 years 11 months 14 days in horse and wagon accident in Portland, Oregon.
4/13/11: Feb 21, 1893 married in Dublin, Ireland to Lena Goldberg, daughter of Naftolee Goldberg, capmaker, who was deceased at the time of the marriage.. Nathan's father was listed as Morris Goldfoot, Distiller, also deceased. By June 14, 1893 was on ship headed for Winnipeg listed as single. Nathan is found on the www.findmypast.com list having left Liverpool, England, Londonderry (Irish port) bound for Quebec and Montreal in 1893 at the age of 22. If the age is correct, he was born in 1871 and not 1874 as I have thought.
Winston Churchill was born in 1874, and Nathan Goldfoot b: 15 August 1871 in possibly Telsiai, Lithuania or Ukraine, Russia and died 19 July 1912 in Portland, Oregon.
Nathan was born at the worst period in Russian history. The 1880's was another dark period of rising anti-Semitism, expulsions from large cities and many other general restrictions. It was mandatory for Jews "to keep the same names that had been entered in the vital records."
1881 saw Alexander II assassinated causing antisemitism. Jews were traders and artisans since Middle Ages and were now restricted in Russia including much of Poland. in Pale of Jewish Settlement. Serfdom was in Russia until 1861.
In 1891 22,000 Jews in chains led from Moscow and St. Petersburg to the Pale. It was hard to leave Russia. They had to cross borders illegally into Austria/Hungary, then to Vienna or Berlin. In Hamburg, Bremen and Rotterdam, thousands tried to find passage to America, standing in long lines. Then they crowded into steerage for 2 to 4 weeks of seasickness and hundreds sharing a toilet.
In 1904, 20,000 people did not pass the inspection and were sent back to Europe. Between 1881 and 1910 1.5 million Jews immigrated to USA. Of that 1 million were from Russia. Most Eastern European immigrants destined for Oregon stopped on the Lower East Side before traveling by train across the country to Portland. Others came more directly because relatives or families had already settled here.
Pograms in Russia= Nathan was age 9
May Laws of Jewish Discrimination, Nathan was age 10
Lithuania lies in the eastern Europe, on the coast of the Baltic Sea. In the north Lithuania borders with Latvia, in the east and south with Byelorussia, in the south-west with Poland and with the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation.
12/20/08 I found him in Quebec arriving in 1893 on ship Parisian. Reference RG76; microfilm C-4539. He contracted to get off at Winnipeg. He was number 29520 on the ship of 8 men and 2 women passengers. Parisian was the 1st large steamer of the Allen Line taking immigrants to Canada. It weighed 5,359 tons and sailed first on May 1881. It took 13 1/4 days from Liverpool, England to Canada and took 18 days from Glasgow, Scotland.
His name, Nathan,and Natan is a Jewish name from the ten Polish Provinces of Kalisz, Kielee, Lomza, Lublin, Pietrkow, Plock, Radom, Siedlce, Suwalki, and Warsaw. Poland was partitioned in 1772, 1792 and 1795. Then it was part of Russia. Nathan must be the anglicized name.
Naum\Nakhim\(Nahum 1:1) Variants: Nakhim (L), Nokhim (L,P,V), Nokhum (L), Nukkhem, Nukhim (P,V) Nukhimche(P). (L )means Lithuania, present-day Lithuania and northern Belarus. (P) means Poland, the 10 Polish provinces, and (V) Volhyn, present day Zhitomir, Rovno, Luts'k and Volyn regions.
4/13/11: Dublin In 1911 the city was 83% Catholic, 13% Church of Ireland, 2% Presbyterian and Methodist and 2% others, including a growing Jewish presence.” Nathan was there in this year.
4/2/15 Nathan lived at 13 Arbutus Place, South Circular Road, Dublin Ireland in 1893 when he married Lena Goldberg. I found this about the address: from a man in 1949 in a nursing home located just down the street at 102 South Circular Road, Portobello, (now renumbered as no. 18), at a house that had been the home of the President’s father, the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, Isaac Herzog, throughout the 1920s. (He later moved the short distance to 33, Bloomfield Avenue for the remaining years of his ministry here before becoming Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel.) He was accordingly born in the same house where Chaim Herzog spent most of his Dublin childhood and where his gifted brother, the late Ya’acov Herzog, had been born in 1921." Nathan left this addresss, at least 4 months later after February 21, 1893 when he married Lena.
The cholera pandemic, beginning in India in 1881, did not subside until 1896, when it had spread across the Far East, Middle East, Russia,and Germany. More than 300,000 people died of cholera in famine-stricken Russia alone.
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| Morris, Nathan's son, remembers his beard. He might have looked like this Goldfus grandfather, of which Chaim Goldfus the archaeologist and Chaim Goldfus the insurance man, both of Israel and 1st cousins, have as grandfather. Nathan's wife had said Nathan's father was Chaim Itzak Goldfus. Hmmm. |
My mother told me that he had been married before, but had no children. His wife had blamed him for this. He divorced her and married my grandmother in Council, Idaho. They then had five children in their six or eight years of marriage. My father, Maurice, was only about 4 yrs old) when his father died. He remembered sitting on his father's lap and combing his beard.
He said he was a junk dealer on the 1910 census. He had a wagon and a horse. One day the horse was out of hand and ran. He was injured and unconscious and was taken to the hospital. A friend would not get my grandmother as it was Shabbus (the Sabbath). He died without telling her where his money was hidden. It was probably hidden in the hay in the horse barn. No one ever found it. (Read newspaper article below.)
2/1/04: Oregon Daily Journal Newspaper, July 19, 1912: SHE SEEKS HUSBAND WHO FAILS TO RETURN; BODY IS AT MORGUE N. Goldfoot, Expressman Who Was Killed in Runaway Unidentified Many Hours.
After lying 12 hours fatally injured and unidentified at St. Vincent's hospital, where he had been rushed in the Red Cross ambulance, after having been hurled from his express wagon when his horse ran away, Nathan Goldfoot, aged 45 years, died this morning, without regaining consciousness, and was not identified until his wife called at the morgue.
When the expressman was picked up by passersby at East Twenty-eighth and Belmont streets, and the wagon, which was badly wrecked, several blocks further on, an effort was made to learn the man's identity, but there was no license tag on the wagon and no papers in the man's pockets. Late last night Mrs. Goldfoot reported to the police that her husband was missing and when Detective Litherand, who took the case up this morning, compared the report of the accident and the one of the missing man, the identification became possible.
Goldfoot resided at 265 Arthur street, was 45 years old and leaves a widow and three children. She was pregnant with my aunt Ann who was then born later on November 11, 1912. The wrecked express wagon and the horse are at a livery barn at 145 East Seventh street.
In the mad flight of the horse down the street, the wagon narrowly missed a collision with an auto, which was stopped by a pedestrian who saw the horse plunging down the street. The widow was prostrated when she found the body.
The Morning Oregonian Saturday, July 20, 1912: WIFE SEEKS MATE; DEAD Man Hurt in Runaway Dies at Hospital: Unknown to Spouse. While Mrs. Nathan Goldfoot of 268 Arthur street searched "high and low" for her husband Thursday night and for several hours yesterday morning, he was lying unconscious at St. Vincent's Hospital, a victim of a runaway accident. Not until he had been dead for more than an hour did the worried wife finally learn of her husband's fate.
Goldfoot was an expressman, 45 years of age. While on his way home Thursday afternoon, his horse ran away and collided with a tree, hurling him to the pavement, inflicting injuries from which he failed to regain consciousness. He remained unconscious from the time of the accident until he died. He had no papers from which his identity might be ascertained and there was no number or name on his express wagon by which he could be identified.
On the death certificate, it says his father's name was John Goldfoot. It actually was Chaim but this probably sounded like John to the nurse. He was born in Russia and his father was born in Russia. We know his father's name was Chaim Itzak as that is what the headstone says. (on jewishgen.org, I have found a different name for his father-Movshsa ben Josel Goldfus.) There are Chaims listed in Telsiai. It was his wife who thought she knew the name of his father. Was she wrong? I don't know.
At this time, I do not know his brother's name who he left Russia with . Supposedly they went to England. The brother stayed there, and Nathan travelled to the U.S. This was oral history through a relative in England that my brother met.
My father was about 4 years old when he died, so not enough information was passed on. He had filed for his first papers (Pa) for citizenship.
He should be on the 1900 Portland census. I'll try to check. (Have never found him there.)
Jewish immigration into the American continent did not really begin until the enactment of the May Laws in Russia in the 1880's (American Origins, Pine,p. 351)
12/24/02 Contact with Mike Posnick who is the other Goldfoot researcher besides Abraham Goldberg. (Abraham turned out to be Rabbi Abraham Goldberg who was slaughtered in Jerusalem by terrorists while praying "davening" in a synagogue. I never knew he was a rabbi. He told me that his Goldfus family lived in Laukuva, Lithuania, which was the southern-most town in the former Telsiai district of the Kovno province of the Russian Empire. The town is located at the crossroads of the Kaunas-Klaipeda and Taurage-Riga highways. He went on to say that we believe that all of the Jewish Goldfus(s) and Goldfoot families are related to one another. All appear to have originated in the area around Telsiai. Those who adopted the name Goldfoot all appear to have resided in the British Isles for at least a short time before moving elsewhere. (My grandfather, Nathan was in England before moving to Dublin, Ireland.)
Note from Mike Posnick, Researcher of Goldfoot: Nathan may have been travelling at the time of the 1900 census. That would explain why you can't find him. He also may have been using a different name, or the census taker or census indexer may have mispelled his name. Anything is possible.
It's not surprising that the eldest child was born where your grandmother's family lived. It was common for a daughter to return to her parents' home to give birth, especially for a first child. One finds this common in Eastern Europe as well as in the United States and Canada.
Are there any family stories about where, when, and how your grandparents met? They might shed some light on where Nathan was at the time of the 1900 census. Also, does a birth record exist for the first child? Have you seen it? It might contain some helpful fact(s).
I would agree with your comment that all of the living Goldfeet are accounted for, Hopefully, the research I am presently doing and planning to do will yield connections. I would appreciate it if you would pursue the subject of naturalization papers filed by your grandfather. If either first or second papers can be found, it will assist us in connecting him to the larger family. I will make a point of looking for him among the passenger manifests when I am next in Salt Lake City was Washington, D.C.
Mike
On his death certificate of July 1912 it states he had been here 13 years. That may mean he was in Oregon for 13 years. I also have that he came to this country in 1896. There is a 1 by the address of 265 Arthur Street. Moses (Maurice Goldfoot)-my father, was born at home at 277 Baker Street in 1908. 6/8/08 Gold Foot: ?????? ?????? and a try at pronouncing them would be Zoloto Peshkom
2/28/04 I heard from Chaim Goldfus in Jerusalem. He is a Phd and teaches classical archaeology and his cousin is also Chaim Goldfus, the insurance agent. They are both named for their grandfather Haim Goldfus from Leukova, Lithuania. According to his father, all the Goldfuses are connected and they are all from Lithuania. There are also Goldfuses that are not Jewish. He is a relative of Avraham Goldberg. He says that common characteristics among the Goldfuses he knows are highly moralistic, straight people proud of carrying the name and more.
6/23/04 I found a Goldfuss on passenger and immigration lists: Philadelphia, 1800-1850 on ship Johann Andreas from Tonnengin port of departure to Philadelphia on March 7, 1805 in Nat'l archives #425 #8 list #20.
1/13/06 I found a Max Goldfoot in Boston, Suffolk, Mass on 1910 census 19 April age 32 b: 1878. He was a junk dealer. (So was Nathan Goldfoot). Max and Rebecca immigrated in 1895. They probably came through the Boston port.
wife: Rebecca age 30, sons Harry age 7 and Robert age 2 and Florence 2 mo old. They were Russian Jews who spoke Yiddish. He could be the brother of Nahum, younger by 4 years.
I also found a Rose Goldfoot on the 1910 census 26 April in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 10 in the Home for Hebrew Orphans. She was Russian Jewish and spoke Yiddish and English.
5/20/06 a Joseph Goldfoot, b: 1891, came over to the Philadelphia port on 28 May 1906. He was a school boy originating in Russia, spoke Hebrew, and came from Queenstown, Dublin, Ireland on the ship Haverford. He was meeting an uncle who lived on 32nd North Broad, Trenton, New Jersey.
9/21/06 About 800 Jews came to Oregon under the auspices of the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) founded by trustees of the Baron de Hirsch Fund in 1900. They lent settlers money for train tickets. With the help of Portland's Hebrew Benevolent Association, Ben Selling would locate work and housing. Settlers frequently became junk peddlers with money for a horse and wagon lent to them by the Hebrew Benevolent Association. This must be what had happened to Nathan Goldfoot. (The Immigrants' Children by Polina Olsen).
1/13/07 Mike Posnick found Nathan on www.findmypast emigrating from Londonderry, Ireland in 1893 to Quebec Canada port. The ship was the Parisian steamship of the Allan Line. He was 22 years old. An Abraham, Lina, Rachel, and Sarah left in 1894 from Liverpool and Londonderry. Only 47 people were on this small ship. In Find My Past, there were 3 ships leaving Londonderry for Canada in 1893. The ship "Vancouver" left two time; 16th June 1893 and 21st July 1893. The Labrador left 15 Sept 1893. I bet it was the Vancouver, and that's how he got to Portland. (Could Lina be Lena who married my grandfather?
He probably took the train across; there would be records of his entry into the US if he crossed in 1895 or after, but not if he went directly from Quebec to the US in 1893:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~holdenclan/albans.htm
He wouldn't have required a passport at that time; in 1893 the border wasn't properly monitored and the Europe --> Canada --> US route was popular precisely because it avoided the US ports and therefore US inspection.
A US census should let you know when he came to the US from Canada.
10/16/08 I found a Pearl Goldfoot who died 5 July 1990 in North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the Jewishgen burial registry. She is in plot 4-D-51. She's buried in the Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
Nathan: June 14, 1893 on Parisian ship of Allen line (British 1881-) from Londonderry, Ireland to Winnipeg at age 22. b: 1871.
12/9/09 [edit] Jews in Telsiai
The Jewish community was proud of its renowned yeshiva, or rabbinical college. In 1941, the Telshe yeshiva was resettled in Cleveland, Ohio by a group of faculty members who escaped the Holocaust. The original yeshiva building still stands in Telšiai.
Under the subsequent Nazi German occupation in World War II, large Jewish population of Telšiai was almost completely annihilated.
Telsiai or Telzh in Yiddish, it is in Kovno Province. Telshi is the name of the town and the district. In 1900 there were 3,088 Jews living there. It is 42 miles West of Siauliai. and is in the NW part of Lithuania.
12/18/10 Interesting that I found an 11 yr old Nathan Goldbont going from Hamburg to NY via London from Suwalki, Poland on 1 May 1881 to 30 May 1881. (Suwalki, Poland is where my paternal grandmother, Hattie "Zlata" Jermulowske b: Lazidai, Suwalki, Lithuania, found herself living when part of Lithuania was taken over by Poland. This had not happened to Telsiai, which was further east.
2/2/11: Found an 11 yr old Nathan Goldbont on Hamburg Passenger List written in German traveling alone from Suwalki, Poland on May 30, 1881. Interesting. Going to New York via London on Viola.
Ship Name: Parisian from Liverpool, England to Londonderry, Ireland to Winnipeg
Years in service: 1881-
Funnels: 2
Masts: 4
Shipping line: Allan (British) 1893 Liverpool Mar. 23 Halifax Apr. 02 Londonderry - Portland. Allan & State LineTransatlantc ID . Was this Portland, Maine or Portland, Oregon as Nathan came to reside in Portland, Oregon.
Ship description: Built by Robert Napier & Sons, Glasgow, Scotland. Tonnage: 5,395. Dimensions: 441' x 46'. Single-screw, 15 knots. Compound engines. Four masts and two funnels. Steel hull.
History: Passengers: 150 first, 100 second, 1,000 third. Maiden voyage: Liverpool-Halifax-Boston, March 10, 1881. Re-engined with triple expansions in 1899 and also had her original funnels replaced with a single large one. Served in various North Atlantic routes, including Glasgow-New York run. Sold to Italian shipbreakers in January 1914, and soon afterwards was dismantled at Genoa.
3/1/11 Found Nathan Abraham Goldfoot in Dublin South on Ireland, Civil Registration Index for marriages; film number 101257, volume #2, page # 631, digital folder # 4179389, image # 00022. Marriage listed Jan-Mar 1893. Then on June 14, 1893 he was heading for Winnipeg on the ship Parisian. Something happened. He was alone.
Search collectionAbout this collectionName: Nathan Abraham Goldfoot
Registration District: Dublin South
Event Type: MARRIAGES
Registration Quarter and Year: Jan - Mar 1893
Estimated Birth Year:
Age (at Death):
Mother's Maiden Name:
Film Number: 101257
Volume Number: 2
Page Number: 631
Digital Folder Number: 4179389
Image Number: 00022
5/12/11: He died on a Tuesday at age 40 years 11 months 4 days. He was born on a Saturday.
I just found in Telsiai, Lithuania the birth of Nokhum Abram Goldfus on 1/1/1871. Father was Movsha, grandfather Liosel, mother was Beile. Could this be my grandfather? The year is right but not the month or day.
11/18/11 On ancestry.com he was listed as either Goofoot or Garfoot and does have PA, which means Declaration of Intent; this is if he understood the question for on the 1910 census of April 16, 1910 he did not read or write.
The Jewish community was proud of its renowned yeshiva, or rabbinical college. In 1941, the Telshe yeshiva was resettled in Cleveland, Ohio by a group of faculty members who escaped the Holocaust. The original yeshiva building still stands in Telšiai.
Under the subsequent Nazi German occupation during World War II, large Jewish population of Telšiai was almost completely annihilated. Telšiai has a rare, surviving wooden synagogue.[4]
Labels: Council, Dublin, England, expressman, genealogy, Goldfus, history, horse and wagon, Idaho, Ireland, Lithuania, Londonderry Port, Nathan Goldfoot, Oregon, Portland, Russia, Telsiai, Winnipeg, Yiddish
Tuesday, November 03, 2015
Rothschild Banking Family: Part of Our Court Jews of Vienna-Connection to Oppenheimer
Nadene Goldfoot
The Rothschild Banking family is a family of financier and philathropists taking their name from a house at the sign of the "red shield" at Frankfort-on-Main, where its family were founded by Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812), who died at age 69 in Frankfort, on wikipedia and the encyclopedia as below, originally a dealer in antique coins, who became financial agent to the landgrave of Hesse-Cassel during the French Revolutionary wars. He had 5 sons who established themselves in different European centers. The many branches of the House of Rothschild are dealt with individually in entries. Many have omitted the common title of baron and the suffixes "de" and "von."
Mayer Amschel Rothschild was born in 1744 in the ghetto in Frankfurt. At the age of 13, he went to Hanover to serve an apprenticeship with the bank of Simon Wolf Oppenheimer. At the age of 19, he returned to Frankfurt. There he joined his brother Calmann's money-changing business. He became a dealer in rare coins and won the patronage of Wilhelm IX of Hesse, gaining the title of "court factor". Rothschild's coin business expanded through the provision of banking services to Wilhelm IX. His bank became one of the biggest in Frankfurt.
The family line started with Mayer Amschel Rothschild who married Guttle Schnapper (1753–1849), the daughter of Wolf Salomon Schnapper, on 29 August 1770. "He was a German banker and the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty, which is believed to have become the wealthiest family in human history. Referred to as the "founding father of international finance," Rothschild was ranked seventh on the Forbes magazine list of "The Twenty Most Influential Businessmen of All Time" in 2005.
"Five lines of the Austrian branch of the family were elevated into the Austrian nobility, being given hereditary baronies of the Habsburg Empire by Emperor Francis II in 1816. The British branch of the family was elevated into the British nobility by Queen Victoria.
Through the familyfinder test at Family Tree DNA, I find that I am connected to Rothschild by DNA. Out of 5 matches, 2 are 4th cousins and the other 3 are 5th cousins. One 4th cousin listed Oppenheimer as his connection and I am also connected to Oppenheimer. Rothschild would be among the court Jews of Vienna.
Our Rothschild Connections
Our Rothschild Connections
My brother matches with 2 Rothschilds, 1 4th cousin and 1 5th cousin
My son matches with 1 Rothschild that I match, also as a 5th cousin.
My paternal cousin matches with 3 Rothschilds, 1 2nd cousin and 2 4th cousins. .
Her nephew matches with 3 Rothschilds
My son's wife's brother matches 5 Oppenheim but no Rothschild. I match 3 Oppenheim , all as 5th cousins. This daughter-in-law's brother matches the same Oppenheims that match me but 1 is a 4th and 2 are 5th cousin. Then he matches 2 more; a 4th and a 5th. One that had matched me as a 5th matched him as a 4th. Her nephew matches with 3 Rothschilds
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| Baron Mayer Amschel Rothschild |
The Rothschild Banking family is a family of financier and philathropists taking their name from a house at the sign of the "red shield" at Frankfort-on-Main, where its family were founded by Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812), who died at age 69 in Frankfort, on wikipedia and the encyclopedia as below, originally a dealer in antique coins, who became financial agent to the landgrave of Hesse-Cassel during the French Revolutionary wars. He had 5 sons who established themselves in different European centers. The many branches of the House of Rothschild are dealt with individually in entries. Many have omitted the common title of baron and the suffixes "de" and "von."
Mayer Amschel Rothschild was born in 1744 in the ghetto in Frankfurt. At the age of 13, he went to Hanover to serve an apprenticeship with the bank of Simon Wolf Oppenheimer. At the age of 19, he returned to Frankfurt. There he joined his brother Calmann's money-changing business. He became a dealer in rare coins and won the patronage of Wilhelm IX of Hesse, gaining the title of "court factor". Rothschild's coin business expanded through the provision of banking services to Wilhelm IX. His bank became one of the biggest in Frankfurt.
The family line started with Mayer Amschel Rothschild who married Guttle Schnapper (1753–1849), the daughter of Wolf Salomon Schnapper, on 29 August 1770. "He was a German banker and the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty, which is believed to have become the wealthiest family in human history. Referred to as the "founding father of international finance," Rothschild was ranked seventh on the Forbes magazine list of "The Twenty Most Influential Businessmen of All Time" in 2005.
- Schönche Jeannette Rothschild (1771–1859), married Benedikt Moses Worms (1769–1824)
- Amschel "Anselm" Mayer Rothschild (1773–1855)
- Salomon Mayer Rothschild (1774–1855), married Caroline Stern who started the Vienna branch.
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836), married to Hannah Barent Cohen (1783–1850), daughter of Levi Barent Cohen Founder of the English house of Rothschild. Lived in Manchester.
- Isabella Rothschild (1781–1861)
- Babette Rothschild (1784–1869)
- Calmann "Carl" Mayer (1788–1855), married to Adelheid Herz (1800–1853)
- Julie Rothschild (1790–1815)
- Henriette "Jette" Rothschild (1791–1866) married Abraham Montefiore(1788–1824)
- Jacob "James" Mayer (1792–1868), married to Betty Salomon von Rothschild (1805–1886), daughter of Salomon Mayer Rothschild
- See Rothschild banking family of France
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Baron Edmond de Rothschild - It was Edmond (Baron Edmond de Rothschild 1845-1934), son of James Rothschild of France (1792-1868) who was interested in intellectual and artistic pursuits and built up a great art collection. Edmond and his wife, Adelaide Rothschild nee Rothschild, were attached to their Jewish traditions. James, his father, was the 5th son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild. James had founded the Paris house in 1817.
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- The first Zionist pioneers in Palestine appealed to Edmond in the early 1880's at the time of the 1st Aliyah from Russia and he wanted to save them from financial collapse. He supported Palestinian colonization and took under his protection all the new settlements which would have had to be liquidated had it not been for his aid. What he did was send agricultural experts and officials who didn't always agree with the settlers. Many of the failure were caused by these very officials, but they educated the new agricultural population of Palestine.
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Beduin home in Palestine 1930
Edmond Rothschild visited Palestine 5 times; 1887, 1893, 1899, 1914, and 1925. Altogether, he bought 125,000 acres in Palestine and is to be credited with the settlement of Galilee and Samaria. In his last years, he cooperated with Chaim Weizmann and Sokolow .
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| Menorah outside Knesset building |
In 1929 he became honorary president of the Jewish Agency. When he and his wife died, they were interred a Zikhron Yaacov, Israel in 1954. Edmond and Adelaide had a son, James (1878-1957) who sat in the British parliament as a Liberal from 1929 to 1945, and left a large bequest for the construction of Israel's new Knesset building.
Austria
Salomon Mayer Rothschild (1774-1855) lived in Vienna from 1816 and developed the Austrian branch of the firm, with his attention on the industrial development and railroad construction. His line was followed by:
Anselm Rothschild (1803-1874)
Albert Solomon Rothschild (1844-1892). His sons were held for ransom by the Nazis after their seizure of Vienna in 1938 when the firm was ended, existing no more.
"Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (September 9, 1774 – July 28, 1855) was the 2nd son but 3rd child of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a German-born banker in the Austrian Empire and the founder of the Austrian branch of the prominent Mayer Amschel Rothschild family.
He was born at Frankfurt-am-Main of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812) and Gutlé Schnapper (1753–1849) was his mother. In 1800, he married Caroline Stern (1782–1854). They had the following children:
- Anselm Salomon Rothschild (1803–1874)
- Betty Salomon Rothschild (1805–1886) - married her uncle, James Mayer de Rothschild in 1824. This is not unheard of. Abraham had also married his niece, Sarah.
Amschel Rothschild, (1773-1855), oldest son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812 , had remained in Frankfort and was active there in the Jewish communal life. His nephews from Naples, Mayer Karl Rothschild (1820-1886) and Wilhelm Carl Rothschild (1828-1901), succeeded him as head of the parent house, which closed down when Wilhelm died. Wilhelm was strictly Orthodox. "The Rothschild sons often included their fathers' names in their own, as we see from the example of Carl Meyer's sons, Meyer Carl and Wilhelm Carl, both of whom took over the Frankfurt branch when their Uncle Amschel left no sons.
Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayer_Amschel_Rothschild
- The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia-Rothschild.
- http://geneagraphie.com/getperson.php?personID=I303158&tree=1
- http://www.geni.com/people/Benedict-Benedikt-Worms/6000000009203326767
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Benedict_de_Worms
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy_of_the_Rothschild_family
- familytreedna
- http://www.manfredlehmann.com/sieg442.html
Labels: DNA matches, history of Rothschild, Oppenheim, Rothschild
Sunday, November 01, 2015
What Are 3rd cousins, anyway and More?
Nadene Goldfoot
I was born in 193? and have taken the familyfinder DNA test from Family Tree DNA, now finding chromosome DNA matches with 3rd cousins. Many times I have never heard of these 3rd cousins and have the job of trying to figure out the genealogy to understand the connection. What is a 3rd cousin and how far back do I have to go?
Hinde Anna Goldfoot, b: 1870 is from Ian's tree. Our mutual ancestors came from Lithuania. Our grandparents came from Lithuania. She's about the same age as my paternal grandfather, Nathan Abraham Goldfus/Goldfoot. Hinde's father was Solomon b: 1848-1849, a son of Avrohom Goldfus b: 1820. Ian is her 1st cousin once removed. To me, she is my 2nd cousin once removed.
I now know of 2 branches of Goldfoot. Ian's is originally from South Africa and ours is from Oregon. We are 3rd cousins. Going back farther, our ancestors came from Dublin, Ireland and before that, England and before that, Telsiai, Lithuania and before that, Germany and before that? Judah! Maybe even Jerusalem.
How close is a 3rd cousin or a 3rd cousin once removed, 3rd cousin twice removed, 3rd cousin 4 times removed and so on. We are only told the person is a 2nd to 4th cousin, more specifically a 3rd cousin from FamilyTreeDNA, but that could mean much farther back than a 3rd cousin. Very few cousins come up as 2nd cousins for me. Not too many 3rd cousins come up on my Family Tree Maker report. Most of my 393 matches come up as 5th cousins to Remote cousins. My software genealogy program where I keep all my information lists people as any number of cousin, such as 5th cousin and the tag could be 3 times removed to 8 times removed etc but the DNA program doesn't figure the times removed part though it does tell you the size of the segments inherited such as 40cMs.
My 3rd cousin Goldfoot below and my Goldfoot family came from Telsiai, Lithuania. Telsiai is the name of a town. Many of our Goldfoots were said to come from the Shtetl of Laukova. 96% of all Lithuanian Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. Many are listed in Jewishgen records as just from Telsiai.
Ian Goldfoot b: about 193? came up from my genealogy tree as a 3rd cousin. His father, Solomon, and my father, Maurice, come up as 2nd cousins to each other, not 1st cousins twice removed. They had different fathers to start with, but shared an ancestor. Luckily, I knew Ian and had his name on my tree. He and my brother tested and have the same Y haplogroup of Q with my brother listed as Q1b1a and Ian listed so far as Q-M378 and have a genetic distance from each other of 3 . From Family Tree DNA I learned that at 4 generations they shared a common ancestor with 22.83% but at 12 generations their percent was raised to 90.53%. A generation is worth 25 years. I was lucky to have found their branch since they had a lot of genealogy facts. Also, I had found our grandfather, after much searching, on Jewishgen.org and discovered for the first time that his full name included Abraham as a middle name. It turns out that his middle child who died in infancy was named Abraham.
Iankel Goldfus is the connecting ancestor, born in 1768. Ian is 4 generations away from Iankel and I am 5 generations away, so even though Ian an I are the same age, we are a generation apart.
1. Ian went back to Solomon b: 1904; Louis b: 1867; Avrohom b: 1820; and ......................Iankel b: 1768.
2. Nadene went back to Maurice b; 1908, Nathan b: 1872, Movsha b: 1836; Iosel b: 1798 and Iankel b: 1768.
3. Stanley Goldfoot, born 1914, Simon b: 1874, Solomon b: 1848-49, Avrohom b: 1820, and Iankel b: 1768.
Iosel b: 1798 and Avrohom b: 1820 were brothers. Their father, Iankel b: 1768 was married to a Khana, where the name of Anna appears often in the Goldfoot line. I have listed 15 children from findings on Jewishgen.org, which may not be quite correct. The families tended to use the same first names over and over again and it was quite confusing to follow.
On December 24, 2002 I had contact with Mike Posnick who is the other Goldfoot researcher besides Rabbi Abraham Goldberg, who was killed recently in Jerusalem in a synagogue while doing his morning prayers. . Mike told me that his Goldfus family lived in Laukuva, Lithuania, which was the southern-most town in the former Telsiai district of the Kovno province of the Russian Empire. The town is located at the crossroads of the Kaunas-Klaipeda and Taurage-Riga highways. I have found the following in Laukuva:
Chaim b: 1801; Leyb b: 1835-43; Abram 1840; Gersh 1861, Yankel 1876, Chaim 1880-85; Dore 1915.
On Nathan's headstone in the cemetery in Hebrew, his name lists Nathan ben Chaim Itzak Goldfoot His wife was the one to give this information. The Nathan I found on jewishgen.org was Nathan Abraham Goldfus, and his father was Abram. It was the ONLY Nathan that I found in Lithuania records, no other Nathan. I sure wish I had been able to talk to Rabbi Goldberg about this. So I went with jewishgen's records. We never knew of any middle name. Neither my grandfather or grandmother were able to read or write in English. Grandfather died when my father was 3 or 4 years old, so he did not learn any family lore.
On Nathan's marriage certificate that I sent for, to Lena Goldfberg in Dublin, Ireland that only lasted a few weeks, Nathan said his father was Morris Goldfoot who was deceased. This is interesting because Nathan's 2nd son with Zlata Jermulowsky, my grandmother, was named Moshe which was then anglicized to Morris. Naming is done by naming after the deceased. I did find Movsha ben Josel Goldfus in Telsiai,Lithuania in the Jewishgen.org information and figured he must be the right father. Lena's deceased father was Naftolee Goldberg. We did know that Nathan had previously been married for a short period without any issue.
Mike Posnick went on to say that we believe that all of the Jewish Goldfus(s) and Goldfoot families are related to one another. All appear to have originated in the area around Telsiai. Those who adopted the name Goldfoot all appear to have resided in the British Isles for at least a short time before moving elsewhere. My grandfather, Nathan did that, too before moving to Dublin, Ireland where other Goldfoots also resided.
4/2/15 Nathan lived at 13 Arbutus Place, South Circular Road, Dublin Ireland in 1893 when he married Lena Goldberg. (I wonder if this was Rabbi Goldberg's connection to Goldfoot?) I found this about South Circular Road from an unknown party: "(I (not my grandfather) was born in 1949 in a nursing home located just down the street at 102 South Circular Road, Portobello, (now renumbered as no. 18), which had been the home of the President’s father, the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, Isaac Herzog, throughout the 1920s. (He later moved the short distance to 33, Bloomfield Avenue for the remaining years of his ministry here before becoming Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel.) I was accordingly born in the same house where Chaim Herzog spent most of his Dublin childhood and where his gifted brother, the late Ya’acov Herzog, had been born in 1921." Nathan left this address on South Circular Road at least 4 months later after February 21, 1893 when he married Lena. He had been listed as a commercial traveler, fancy title for "traveling salesman."
Finding out about an ancestor is the best part. Here's what I found out about our mutual ancestor, from Ian's father, Solomon. On 3/11/08 I was given the oral history from Stanley Goldfoot and Ian's father, Solomon Goldfoot in that they were descendants of the Vilna Gaon, who was Elijah Ben Solomon Zalman. 1720-1797. Talmudist. He was born in Lithuania and was early famed for his scholarship. From 1740-1745 he traveled among the Jewish communities of Poland and Germany, settling in Vilna where he taught and later founded his own academy. He lived in seclusion and refused rabbinic office. He was called a saint and a scholar. He led the opposition to the Hasidim in Lithuania, ordering their excommunication and the destruction of their literature. His obdurate attitude checked the spread of Hasidism in Lithuania. When he was about 60, he set out unaccompanied for Palestine but returned before reaching it. His reputation lies primarily in the field of Halakhah. He sought to establish critical texts of the authoritative rabbinic writings, resorting also to emendations. He avoided pilpul and based his views and rulings upon the plain meaning of the text. He regarded highly the early Kabbalistic works, and was extremely critical of philosophy. He was interested in secular studies insofar as they threw light on the Torah, but he opposed the Haskalah. His works include commentaries on the Bible, annotations on the Talmud, Midrash, and Zohar, works on mathematics, the geography of Palestine, Hebrew grammar, etc. He exercised a vast influence on his own and succeeding generations, the Mitnaggedim regarding him as their spiritual leader.
I bought the research book about the Vilna Gaon, and to my disappointment, Goldfoot or Goldfus was not listed as one of the descendants. The book is ELIYAHU'S BRANCHES by Chaim Freedman. . They must have been connected through another surname in the family. I hope we're connected to that person as well. Our Goldfus family lived in the county of Telsiai which was about 150 miles from Vilna, a good 2 hours 30 minutes away by today's standards.
1. In the list is a Khaya Halpern married to Akivah Pines and it is Pines who is connected on page 378.
2. Khone Joseph Hirschhorn b: 1899 in Jukst, Latvia, director of the Hirschorn Museum who was married to Jennie Berman and listed on page 430 is a person that we are connected to.
He died at age 92 from old age, on Lithuania death list of LitvakSIG. On Tevet 5. also from Jewishgen through researcher, Dennis Khan.
3. I found Yisrael Sieff listed on page 450. Evidently Sieff is from the surname of Ziv. Going back a ways, Reizel Klatzki married Rabbi Azriel Ziv b: 1760, son of Gershon Mendel Ziv. Reizel died in 1833 in Vilna, Lithuania. Reizel was the most probably link with the Ziv (Sieff) and Grad families, based on the tradition related to Lord Israel Sieff by his great-grandfather that he was descended from a brother of the Gaon of Vilna. Sieff recalled the name of the Geon's brother as Joshua, which was probably a distortion of Yissakhar Ber. There is a conflict in the sources with regard to the identity of Azriel's father.
4. Michelle Richmond, p. 466 is listed. She is married to Jonathan Lee Rubin who was the one listed. We do have a Russian Rebecca Richmond married to a George Goldfoot who died in Dublin, Ireland in 1935 from BS Russia. George was the son of Avrohom Goldfus b: 1820.
5. We have a Sally Hermer married to Samuel Goldfoot b: 1890 in Dublin, Ireland. There is a Johanna Hermer on page 432 who married Wolf Friedlander b: 1846 who is the connection. They married in 1904. He had a farm in De Aar. Also, on the tree I have Lazer Hirshhorn b: abt 1858 married to Amalka Friedlander b: prob.1864 in Djukst, Latvia/ Courland, Russia.
6. An Evelyn Gershon on p. 120 is connected to the Gaon. We have a Leja Gershon b: 1915 married to Dore Goldfus who married in Pilviskiai, Vilkaviskis, Suvalki, Lithuania. Dore's father was from Laukuva, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania where Goldfoots were said to be from. Evelyn had married Minnas Goodrich b: 1900 in Dvinsk, Latvia. Minnas died in 1957 in Macon, Georgia.
I somehow made a connection with Joseph Hirschhorn's daughter, Gene Harriet Hirschhorn, better known as Gene LePere, author. I have 2 of her books. " Never Pass this Way Again;" pub. 1987 which was also made into a TV movie, and "Little Man in a Big Hurry, " a most interesting book about her very interesting father. She's a great writer and had a most interesting experience. She helped me by double-checking my Goldfoot findings from Jewishgen.org since she also had a Goldfoot on her tree.
11/6/08 I had made contact with Gene through Jewishgen about Gertrude Goldfoot, a new Goldfoot I had found on her tree. She put me in touch with Seiff. Gertrude is wife of her 2nd cousin. I then found Gertrude Goldfoot and she is from Ian's tree, now blended with my tree, but I am not a cousin of hers. She was the daughter of Morris Maurice Yankel Meier Goldfoot. who was the son of Leib Gershon Goldfus, another branch. Then again, I could have made a mistake finding the fathers. This again is where DNA comes in handy. Therefore, I'm not a cousin of Gene LePere's either, but we connect to the same people. I think we're just "Mishpuka." or maybe, shirttail relatives. Now, a DNA would tell the whole story if we are related in any little bit.
1 Simon Sieff b: July 25, 1911 in Cork, Ireland
.. +Gertrude Gertie Miriam Goldfoot b: April 18, 1906 in Dublin South, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Gene's 2nd book is the remarkable story of "Joseph H. Hirshhorn, who donated the largest private art collection ever accumulated to the people of the United States. A rags-to-riches story of an immigrant Jewish boy, barely eight years old, who arrived in the United States from Latvia in 1907 and who, through oversized ambition, energy, smarts, luck, and determination, accumulated a multi-million-dollar collection of contemporary art which is now housed on the Mall in Washington, D.C., in a Smithsonian Museum which bears his name: The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Joe's father died in Latvia when Joe, the twelfth of thirteen children was one year old. By 1906 his mother, with two of her daughters, arrived in Brooklyn where they worked in sweatshops to bring the remainder of the children to America. From this humble beginning, ambitious Joe set out to lift his family out of poverty. His first financial successes were made as a broker's broker, with later successes in gold and uranium mining. He was also married four times, and struggled to balance family life with the work that consumed him. Having developed a fascination with art that brightened up "ugly walls" where he had lived as a child, Joe Hirshhorn began a hobby that would soon turn into a joyful obsession, buying and collecting art. After he accumulated a vast and impressive collection, offers to house the collection came pouring in from London, Italy, Canada, and Israel. Finally, under the administration of President Lyndon Johnson, a suitable museum was built where Mr. Hirshhorn's collection is on display today. This is his amazing story, as told by his daughter".
About the Author
Gene Hirshhorn LePere is the second daughter of Joseph Hirshhorn, born in October of 1926. Ms. LePere received her B.A. from the University of Southern California in 1949, and her MBA from Pace University in 1977. Raised in Great Neck, New York, the author has lived a bi-coastal life, living in both Los Angeles and New York. She has traveled extensively to India, China, the South Pacific, Jordan, Israel, Oman, Yemen, Turkey, Egypt, and "everywhere but South America." She is the author of Never Pass This Way Again, and has worked as a marketing researcher, antiques dealer, decorator, and social worker, as well as working for Reader's Digest magazine. The author currently works as a genealogist and enjoys hand quilting in her spare time. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
In Israel I found an insurance agent and an archaeologist by the names of Goldfus, our original name. Each man was named Chaim Goldfus. They are 1st cousins to each other, evidently named for a deceased relative. I have 3 Chaim Goldfus on our tree. The picture of their grandfather is below. They must be related to us. The familyfinder test would tell us just how close or far apart we are.
1. Chaim Goldfus b: 1880-1885, married to Elke Zaksaite, both of Laukkuva, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania. Dore Goldfus was their son b: 1915.
2. Chaim Goldfus b: 1801 in Laukkuva, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania. . Leyb b: 1835-1840 and Abram b: 1840 were his sons.
3. Chaim Goldfus b: 1867 to Abram, son of Josel Goldfus, and he was son of Iankel Goldfus b: 1768 in Telsiai, Lithuania. and in turn he was son of Abram Goldfus b: abt 1852 in Telsiai. His father was Iones Goldfus b: abt 1730 in Telsiai.
When I was in Israel from 1980-1985, I met with my 3rd cousin, Stanley Goldfoot, who turned out to have been the Chief of Intelligence for the Stern Group when he was younger. He lived in Jerusalem. He's my 3rd cousin. His father was Simon Goldfoot b: 1874. Simon's father was Solomon b: 1848-1849. Solomon's father was Avrohom b: 1820. He's Ian's 2nd cousin.
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| Chart of finding 3rd and 4th cousins. 4th is in orange on bottom row. |
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| Myself with father, Maurice Goldfoot, born 1908. |
I was born in 193? and have taken the familyfinder DNA test from Family Tree DNA, now finding chromosome DNA matches with 3rd cousins. Many times I have never heard of these 3rd cousins and have the job of trying to figure out the genealogy to understand the connection. What is a 3rd cousin and how far back do I have to go?
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| Nathan Goldfoot b: 1872, grandfather who died when my father was 4. Nathan's father, Movsha, died when Nathan was 7. |
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| Hinde Goldfoot, ancestor of Ian Goldfoot |
I now know of 2 branches of Goldfoot. Ian's is originally from South Africa and ours is from Oregon. We are 3rd cousins. Going back farther, our ancestors came from Dublin, Ireland and before that, England and before that, Telsiai, Lithuania and before that, Germany and before that? Judah! Maybe even Jerusalem.
How close is a 3rd cousin or a 3rd cousin once removed, 3rd cousin twice removed, 3rd cousin 4 times removed and so on. We are only told the person is a 2nd to 4th cousin, more specifically a 3rd cousin from FamilyTreeDNA, but that could mean much farther back than a 3rd cousin. Very few cousins come up as 2nd cousins for me. Not too many 3rd cousins come up on my Family Tree Maker report. Most of my 393 matches come up as 5th cousins to Remote cousins. My software genealogy program where I keep all my information lists people as any number of cousin, such as 5th cousin and the tag could be 3 times removed to 8 times removed etc but the DNA program doesn't figure the times removed part though it does tell you the size of the segments inherited such as 40cMs.
My 3rd cousin Goldfoot below and my Goldfoot family came from Telsiai, Lithuania. Telsiai is the name of a town. Many of our Goldfoots were said to come from the Shtetl of Laukova. 96% of all Lithuanian Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. Many are listed in Jewishgen records as just from Telsiai.
"Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania
The majority of Jews in Lithuania were not required to live in ghettos nor sent to the Nazi concentration camps which by then were just in the preliminary stages of operation. Instead they were shot in pits near their places of residence with the most infamous mass murders taking place in the Ninth Fort near Kaunas and the Ponary Forest near Vilnius. Lithuania’s Jews were thus the first in Europe to be subjected to the Nazi policy of complete extermination. 48,000 people were murdered at Ponary in the first six months of the Nazi occupation between late June 1941 and December 1941. It is estimated that only 40,000 of the 220,000 Jews in Lithuania at the time of the invasion were still alive by the end of 1941. " Ian Goldfoot b: about 193? came up from my genealogy tree as a 3rd cousin. His father, Solomon, and my father, Maurice, come up as 2nd cousins to each other, not 1st cousins twice removed. They had different fathers to start with, but shared an ancestor. Luckily, I knew Ian and had his name on my tree. He and my brother tested and have the same Y haplogroup of Q with my brother listed as Q1b1a and Ian listed so far as Q-M378 and have a genetic distance from each other of 3 . From Family Tree DNA I learned that at 4 generations they shared a common ancestor with 22.83% but at 12 generations their percent was raised to 90.53%. A generation is worth 25 years. I was lucky to have found their branch since they had a lot of genealogy facts. Also, I had found our grandfather, after much searching, on Jewishgen.org and discovered for the first time that his full name included Abraham as a middle name. It turns out that his middle child who died in infancy was named Abraham.
Iankel Goldfus is the connecting ancestor, born in 1768. Ian is 4 generations away from Iankel and I am 5 generations away, so even though Ian an I are the same age, we are a generation apart.
1. Ian went back to Solomon b: 1904; Louis b: 1867; Avrohom b: 1820; and ......................Iankel b: 1768.
2. Nadene went back to Maurice b; 1908, Nathan b: 1872, Movsha b: 1836; Iosel b: 1798 and Iankel b: 1768.
3. Stanley Goldfoot, born 1914, Simon b: 1874, Solomon b: 1848-49, Avrohom b: 1820, and Iankel b: 1768.
Iosel b: 1798 and Avrohom b: 1820 were brothers. Their father, Iankel b: 1768 was married to a Khana, where the name of Anna appears often in the Goldfoot line. I have listed 15 children from findings on Jewishgen.org, which may not be quite correct. The families tended to use the same first names over and over again and it was quite confusing to follow.
On December 24, 2002 I had contact with Mike Posnick who is the other Goldfoot researcher besides Rabbi Abraham Goldberg, who was killed recently in Jerusalem in a synagogue while doing his morning prayers. . Mike told me that his Goldfus family lived in Laukuva, Lithuania, which was the southern-most town in the former Telsiai district of the Kovno province of the Russian Empire. The town is located at the crossroads of the Kaunas-Klaipeda and Taurage-Riga highways. I have found the following in Laukuva:
Chaim b: 1801; Leyb b: 1835-43; Abram 1840; Gersh 1861, Yankel 1876, Chaim 1880-85; Dore 1915.
On Nathan's headstone in the cemetery in Hebrew, his name lists Nathan ben Chaim Itzak Goldfoot His wife was the one to give this information. The Nathan I found on jewishgen.org was Nathan Abraham Goldfus, and his father was Abram. It was the ONLY Nathan that I found in Lithuania records, no other Nathan. I sure wish I had been able to talk to Rabbi Goldberg about this. So I went with jewishgen's records. We never knew of any middle name. Neither my grandfather or grandmother were able to read or write in English. Grandfather died when my father was 3 or 4 years old, so he did not learn any family lore.
On Nathan's marriage certificate that I sent for, to Lena Goldfberg in Dublin, Ireland that only lasted a few weeks, Nathan said his father was Morris Goldfoot who was deceased. This is interesting because Nathan's 2nd son with Zlata Jermulowsky, my grandmother, was named Moshe which was then anglicized to Morris. Naming is done by naming after the deceased. I did find Movsha ben Josel Goldfus in Telsiai,Lithuania in the Jewishgen.org information and figured he must be the right father. Lena's deceased father was Naftolee Goldberg. We did know that Nathan had previously been married for a short period without any issue.
Mike Posnick went on to say that we believe that all of the Jewish Goldfus(s) and Goldfoot families are related to one another. All appear to have originated in the area around Telsiai. Those who adopted the name Goldfoot all appear to have resided in the British Isles for at least a short time before moving elsewhere. My grandfather, Nathan did that, too before moving to Dublin, Ireland where other Goldfoots also resided.
4/2/15 Nathan lived at 13 Arbutus Place, South Circular Road, Dublin Ireland in 1893 when he married Lena Goldberg. (I wonder if this was Rabbi Goldberg's connection to Goldfoot?) I found this about South Circular Road from an unknown party: "(I (not my grandfather) was born in 1949 in a nursing home located just down the street at 102 South Circular Road, Portobello, (now renumbered as no. 18), which had been the home of the President’s father, the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, Isaac Herzog, throughout the 1920s. (He later moved the short distance to 33, Bloomfield Avenue for the remaining years of his ministry here before becoming Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel.) I was accordingly born in the same house where Chaim Herzog spent most of his Dublin childhood and where his gifted brother, the late Ya’acov Herzog, had been born in 1921." Nathan left this address on South Circular Road at least 4 months later after February 21, 1893 when he married Lena. He had been listed as a commercial traveler, fancy title for "traveling salesman."
Finding out about an ancestor is the best part. Here's what I found out about our mutual ancestor, from Ian's father, Solomon. On 3/11/08 I was given the oral history from Stanley Goldfoot and Ian's father, Solomon Goldfoot in that they were descendants of the Vilna Gaon, who was Elijah Ben Solomon Zalman. 1720-1797. Talmudist. He was born in Lithuania and was early famed for his scholarship. From 1740-1745 he traveled among the Jewish communities of Poland and Germany, settling in Vilna where he taught and later founded his own academy. He lived in seclusion and refused rabbinic office. He was called a saint and a scholar. He led the opposition to the Hasidim in Lithuania, ordering their excommunication and the destruction of their literature. His obdurate attitude checked the spread of Hasidism in Lithuania. When he was about 60, he set out unaccompanied for Palestine but returned before reaching it. His reputation lies primarily in the field of Halakhah. He sought to establish critical texts of the authoritative rabbinic writings, resorting also to emendations. He avoided pilpul and based his views and rulings upon the plain meaning of the text. He regarded highly the early Kabbalistic works, and was extremely critical of philosophy. He was interested in secular studies insofar as they threw light on the Torah, but he opposed the Haskalah. His works include commentaries on the Bible, annotations on the Talmud, Midrash, and Zohar, works on mathematics, the geography of Palestine, Hebrew grammar, etc. He exercised a vast influence on his own and succeeding generations, the Mitnaggedim regarding him as their spiritual leader.
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| Vilna Gaon b: 1720 d: 1797 |
1. In the list is a Khaya Halpern married to Akivah Pines and it is Pines who is connected on page 378.
2. Khone Joseph Hirschhorn b: 1899 in Jukst, Latvia, director of the Hirschorn Museum who was married to Jennie Berman and listed on page 430 is a person that we are connected to.
He died at age 92 from old age, on Lithuania death list of LitvakSIG. On Tevet 5. also from Jewishgen through researcher, Dennis Khan.
3. I found Yisrael Sieff listed on page 450. Evidently Sieff is from the surname of Ziv. Going back a ways, Reizel Klatzki married Rabbi Azriel Ziv b: 1760, son of Gershon Mendel Ziv. Reizel died in 1833 in Vilna, Lithuania. Reizel was the most probably link with the Ziv (Sieff) and Grad families, based on the tradition related to Lord Israel Sieff by his great-grandfather that he was descended from a brother of the Gaon of Vilna. Sieff recalled the name of the Geon's brother as Joshua, which was probably a distortion of Yissakhar Ber. There is a conflict in the sources with regard to the identity of Azriel's father.
4. Michelle Richmond, p. 466 is listed. She is married to Jonathan Lee Rubin who was the one listed. We do have a Russian Rebecca Richmond married to a George Goldfoot who died in Dublin, Ireland in 1935 from BS Russia. George was the son of Avrohom Goldfus b: 1820.
5. We have a Sally Hermer married to Samuel Goldfoot b: 1890 in Dublin, Ireland. There is a Johanna Hermer on page 432 who married Wolf Friedlander b: 1846 who is the connection. They married in 1904. He had a farm in De Aar. Also, on the tree I have Lazer Hirshhorn b: abt 1858 married to Amalka Friedlander b: prob.1864 in Djukst, Latvia/ Courland, Russia.
6. An Evelyn Gershon on p. 120 is connected to the Gaon. We have a Leja Gershon b: 1915 married to Dore Goldfus who married in Pilviskiai, Vilkaviskis, Suvalki, Lithuania. Dore's father was from Laukuva, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania where Goldfoots were said to be from. Evelyn had married Minnas Goodrich b: 1900 in Dvinsk, Latvia. Minnas died in 1957 in Macon, Georgia.
I somehow made a connection with Joseph Hirschhorn's daughter, Gene Harriet Hirschhorn, better known as Gene LePere, author. I have 2 of her books. " Never Pass this Way Again;" pub. 1987 which was also made into a TV movie, and "Little Man in a Big Hurry, " a most interesting book about her very interesting father. She's a great writer and had a most interesting experience. She helped me by double-checking my Goldfoot findings from Jewishgen.org since she also had a Goldfoot on her tree.
11/6/08 I had made contact with Gene through Jewishgen about Gertrude Goldfoot, a new Goldfoot I had found on her tree. She put me in touch with Seiff. Gertrude is wife of her 2nd cousin. I then found Gertrude Goldfoot and she is from Ian's tree, now blended with my tree, but I am not a cousin of hers. She was the daughter of Morris Maurice Yankel Meier Goldfoot. who was the son of Leib Gershon Goldfus, another branch. Then again, I could have made a mistake finding the fathers. This again is where DNA comes in handy. Therefore, I'm not a cousin of Gene LePere's either, but we connect to the same people. I think we're just "Mishpuka." or maybe, shirttail relatives. Now, a DNA would tell the whole story if we are related in any little bit.
1 Simon Sieff b: July 25, 1911 in Cork, Ireland
.. +Gertrude Gertie Miriam Goldfoot b: April 18, 1906 in Dublin South, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Gene's 2nd book is the remarkable story of "Joseph H. Hirshhorn, who donated the largest private art collection ever accumulated to the people of the United States. A rags-to-riches story of an immigrant Jewish boy, barely eight years old, who arrived in the United States from Latvia in 1907 and who, through oversized ambition, energy, smarts, luck, and determination, accumulated a multi-million-dollar collection of contemporary art which is now housed on the Mall in Washington, D.C., in a Smithsonian Museum which bears his name: The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Joe's father died in Latvia when Joe, the twelfth of thirteen children was one year old. By 1906 his mother, with two of her daughters, arrived in Brooklyn where they worked in sweatshops to bring the remainder of the children to America. From this humble beginning, ambitious Joe set out to lift his family out of poverty. His first financial successes were made as a broker's broker, with later successes in gold and uranium mining. He was also married four times, and struggled to balance family life with the work that consumed him. Having developed a fascination with art that brightened up "ugly walls" where he had lived as a child, Joe Hirshhorn began a hobby that would soon turn into a joyful obsession, buying and collecting art. After he accumulated a vast and impressive collection, offers to house the collection came pouring in from London, Italy, Canada, and Israel. Finally, under the administration of President Lyndon Johnson, a suitable museum was built where Mr. Hirshhorn's collection is on display today. This is his amazing story, as told by his daughter".
About the Author
Gene Hirshhorn LePere is the second daughter of Joseph Hirshhorn, born in October of 1926. Ms. LePere received her B.A. from the University of Southern California in 1949, and her MBA from Pace University in 1977. Raised in Great Neck, New York, the author has lived a bi-coastal life, living in both Los Angeles and New York. She has traveled extensively to India, China, the South Pacific, Jordan, Israel, Oman, Yemen, Turkey, Egypt, and "everywhere but South America." She is the author of Never Pass This Way Again, and has worked as a marketing researcher, antiques dealer, decorator, and social worker, as well as working for Reader's Digest magazine. The author currently works as a genealogist and enjoys hand quilting in her spare time. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
In Israel I found an insurance agent and an archaeologist by the names of Goldfus, our original name. Each man was named Chaim Goldfus. They are 1st cousins to each other, evidently named for a deceased relative. I have 3 Chaim Goldfus on our tree. The picture of their grandfather is below. They must be related to us. The familyfinder test would tell us just how close or far apart we are.
1. Chaim Goldfus b: 1880-1885, married to Elke Zaksaite, both of Laukkuva, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania. Dore Goldfus was their son b: 1915.
2. Chaim Goldfus b: 1801 in Laukkuva, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania. . Leyb b: 1835-1840 and Abram b: 1840 were his sons.
3. Chaim Goldfus b: 1867 to Abram, son of Josel Goldfus, and he was son of Iankel Goldfus b: 1768 in Telsiai, Lithuania. and in turn he was son of Abram Goldfus b: abt 1852 in Telsiai. His father was Iones Goldfus b: abt 1730 in Telsiai.
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| Stanley Goldfoot and 2nd wife, Helen Stanley was my grandfather Nathan's 1st cousin twice removed. That means they were a distance of 2 generations with Nathan born in 1872 and Stanley in 1914. |
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| Stanley Goldfoot and family |
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| My father's brother, Charles b: 1906 |
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| Grandfather Goldfus from the Israeli branch living in Jerusalem
Resource: http://jewishwebindex.com/Lithuanian%20Shtetls.htm
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/about/04/baltic.asp
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Labels: 3rd cousins, cousins, Family Tree DNA, Gene LePere, Goldfoot, Jewishgen, Joseph Hirschhorn, Lithuania, Stanley Goldfoot, Vilna Gaon
