The Rosenblooms in 1850... and 1834

Srul (seated) with family

It was nearly five years ago that I last added historical records about my great-grandfather's Rosenbloom family. To refresh your memories, what we knew before that was that Israel David (Srul) Rosenbloom was born around 1850 to Yaakov and Shayna-Liba and lived in Borisov (Belarus), where my grandmother and her siblings were born.

Then during one of my occasional reviews of the JewishGen database for Belarus (calling them "periodic" would be generous), I found a Revision List dated 15 July 1858 which included Yankel and Shayna Rozenblyum, their ages (45 & 38), their fathers (Itzka and Khaim) and two daughters (Tsyv'ya age 20 and Leya age 10).  Srul was missing, but this was clearly his family.

So this gave me two names of third great-grandfathers plus Srul's two sisters, as well as some ages.

I wondered if there was any more to be done.

I had a look a few days ago and found a new Revision List, this one dated 29 October 1850.

 

A household with seven entries. The head of the household was Itska, whom we knew. His father was Abel, presumably a form of Avraham. Itska had been 56 years old at the previous Revision List (1834) but had died in 1847. Abel is my fourth great-grandfather. I have barely a handful of those.

 

Yankel and Sheina appear on lines 2 & 4, with ages that fit the 1858 list. 

The third entry was a son (of Yankel) named Abel who had been five years old in 1834 but was currently missing from the household because he was "recruited." The name and age implies that Old Abel died before 1829.

 

A daughter Ronya appears on the fifth line. She was 19 years old but no age is recorded for 1834.

 

The two younger daughters - Tsviya and Leya - fill out the household, with ages that match the 1858 list.

 

Still no mention of Srul.

 

So this adds another generation back (Abel), gives us Itska's age, and adds a brother and sister of Srul. It is not clear to me if the absence of Itska's wife means that she died before the 1834 list or perhaps there is another explanation.

 

It also reminds me how important it is to review record searches from time to time. You never know when something might turn up. 

 

And it gives me hope for the 1834 Revision Lists.
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As I often do, I completed this post and left it to percolate a few days before publishing. Then, lo and behold, this shows up.

The Revision List from 15 April 1834. We see Itsko, Yankel and the children Abel and Ronya, as we know them in 1850. But also Itsko's wife Tsyvia, age 45. That gives us the name of another third great-grandmother. She does not appear as "missing" in 1850.

 

And Minya, age 20, the wife of Yankel. We know Yankel's wife to be Shayna (or more properly Shayna Liba), so this Minya must be a previous wife. She too does not appear as "missing" in 1850. In any case, based on her age, I think that Yankel's daughter Tzvi'ya is from this first wife and have changed my database to reflect that.

 

I have had no luck finding any subsequent references to Ronya, Tsivia or Leya. Yet.