KANTORSOHN Family

“Other than checking to
see whether Sara HAMMERSTEIN geb. KANTORSOHN happened to name a son
Baer or Bernhard (or Issachar), I will have to wait for more
opportunities to prove this new ancestral link.”

Checking the Nightengale Family Tree on Ancestry.com did add another consistent clue to the KANTORSOHN search.

Even though the first time I looked at the list of children of Hirsch Laser HAMMERSTEIN and Sara geb. KANTORSOHN, I specifically did not see a Bernhard or Berel, looking at the same list a few minutes later:

Pauline Hammerstein
Aurelie Hammerstein 1840 –
Moritz Hammerstein 1841 – 1907
Minna Hammerstein 1844 –
Jacob Hammerstein 1845 – 1901
Johanna Hammerstein 1845 –
Bernhard Hammerstein 1849 –
Leopold Hammerstein 1850 – 

there clearly was a son Bernhard HAMMERSTEIN.

So, both Rachel KANTORSOHN and Sara KANTORSOHN named sons Bernhard.   This is the closest thing to evidence that Rachel and Sara were sisters, and daughters of Baer KANTERSON of Schloß Kyschau.

It might even be noteworthy that Rachel and Sara also named daughters Johanna.

[Written at the Caffe Capanna in Point Roberts, Washington, USA.]