Name: 5154 -- Jay Stowsky Family Tree

Updated: 05-16-2019 09:05:10. Owner: Jay Stowsky


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Max Stafsky\Mordechai Stawsky: Birth: 1859 in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (Belarus). Death: 20 AUG 1915 in Bronx, New York

  2. Yetta (Chaye) Stawsky: Birth: JUN 1867 in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (Belarus). Death: 3 JUL 1940 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  3. Fanny (Frottel) Stawsky: Birth: JUL 1868 in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (Belarus). Death: 19 NOV 1926 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  4. Samuel Aaron Stawsky: Birth: 4 JUN 1872 in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (Belarus). Death: 18 JUN 1922 in Bronx, New York

  5. Dora (Dubba) Stawsky: Birth: JAN 1876 in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (Belarus). Death: 24 APR 1933 in Brooklyn, New York

  6. Celia Stawsky: Birth: 1877 in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (Belarus). Death: 25 JUN 1944 in Bronx, New York

  7. Yetta Stawsky: Birth: APR 1878 in Brest-Litovsk, Russia. Death: 4 OCT 1963 in Brooklyn, New York

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Notes
a. Note:   There is a birth record for a Chaim-Yankel Stawsky in the town of Volchin near Brest-Litovsk in 1838. Many of the names in these archival records recur in our family (Abram, Reuben, Shmuel, Aaron). According to May Gilbert, Chaim farmed and raised cattle. Chaim came to America in August 1892. (He sailed from Hamburg to Hull/Liverpool on August 9, 1892 on the HMS Plato). But he missed Brest-Litovsk and returned there about 1903/1904. (There is a family anecdote about young boys on the Lower East Side poking fun and pulling at the old man's beard]. He died in Brest about 1909 (when he was 71, according to May Gilbert). While Chaim was in the United States, he traveled to Milwaukee to visit his daughters Yetta (Chayitka) Feldstein and Fannie (Frottel) Tobleske. According to family lore, one of the daughters was having trouble conceiving her first child. It was thought that perhaps this was because the marriage had taken place without the signing of an official ketubah (Jewish ritual marriage contract). According to the story, Chaim sat outside the couple's bedroom all night praying, and his daughter was soon pregnant with her first child. Both daughters seem to have had their first children fairly late in life for that time (Fannie at about 34, Yetta at about 37). I suspected that the story might be about the birth of Yetta's first son, Benjamin Feldstein, born in December 1899, because that date seems to best fit the time frame suggested by May Gilbert for Chaim's stay in the U.S. I told this story to Benjamin's widow, Ruth, when I spoke to her in 1991, and she said she thought the story was plausible; she remembered hearing that Yetta had had trouble becoming pregnant. Many of Chaim's children named their children for him -- Henry, Harry, Howard, Helen, etc.

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