Showing posts with label names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label names. Show all posts

Thursday, September 4, 2008

1910


By 1910, the Dubersteins had moved up -- and uptown, to the Bronx, where they resided at 408 E. 140th St. The census that year listed Morris as a "manufacturer, ice cream wafers" -- which fits nicely with the many family stories of his having invented the ice cream cone, or the ice cream sandwich, or something along those lines. Eldest daughter Anna B. (what did the B. stand for? I don't think I ever heard of her having a middle name...) was employed as an "operator, shirtwaists" while her sister Bertha ("Betsy" in the 1900 census and "Breine" on the ship manifest) was working as a milliner in a wholesale store. Jack was a bookkeeper in a coal yard, and Julius -- begininng a long history of family employment -- was keeping the books for his father. The younger children were still at home.


The 1910 census seems to settle the question of where Gerald, the youngest, had been born. In the 1900 census he was listed as having been born in the U.S., but that can't be right, if he was shown on the ship manifest when they came over from Minsk/Hamburg that year. Just another case of the government not quite getting it right ...

Monday, September 1, 2008

I suppose it's possible that another family of Dubersteins from Minsk could have been sailing over with the same number and gender mix of children, with names that correspond as well to ours. But not too likely...
So I'm assuming that:
Moses = Morris
Mere = Mary
Chane = Anne
Breine = Bertha
Jankno = Jacob
Judel = Julius
Dobe = Debbie
Cive = Ceil
Michle = Mabel
Gedalye = Gerald