And a Little More CANTORSON Family

Two days ago, as a result of some more CANTORSON websurfing, I ran across another possible sibling of my great great great grandmother Rahel LAUDON geb. CANTORSOHN (ca.1805-bef.1861).  She is Eva ROSENTHAL geb. CANTORSON (1820-1897).


As it turns out, several researchers (in Sweden, Germany and Israel) have information on MyHeritage.com about Eva ROSENTHAL geb. CANTORSOHN and her husband Caspar ROSENTHAL, including photographs of both of them.  (It is interesting how often the name Casper shows up in West and East Prussia in the 19th century, particularly in contrast to Posen and Silesia, where it shows up rarely, if at all …)


The same family tree includes information on Eva’s brother Abraham CANTORSON — the same one I was already speculating about in my last blog entry.   In addition to the child I could definitely ascribe to Abraham (Aurelie (BEHRENDT)), and the ones I speculated about (Ida (HENNIG), Bernhard, George, Arthur), this tree includes Bertha (NEUWERK (?)), Anna (ROSENBAUM), Ernst and Gerhard (who, I suspect, should be Bernhard…).


According to one of the researchers in Sweden, his information is based on an old family tree from the late 19th century or early 20th century.  It apparently does not contain any information about Rahel (LAUDON), Sara (HAMMERSTEIN) or Johanna (FALKENHEIM), but it does identify the parents of Eva and Abraham CANTORSON as Baer CANTORSON and Adelheid.  This would seem to confirm one of my theories:  that Adeline CANTORSOHN geb. JACOBY (ca.1782-1864, Rosenberg, West Prussia) was the wife of Baer KANTERSON / CANTORSON / CANTORSOHN.


Baer and Adelheid / Adeline apparently lived in the town of Schöneck (Skarszewy) in West Prussia in 1820 when Eva was born.  Schöneck is not far from Kyschau where Baer KANTERSON was living in 1812 when he adopted the surname KANTERSON (and variants, apparently).


More information, but no answers.