WARSCHAWSKI and Zerkow

The path to our WARSCHAWSKI ancestors had many steps.

First, on 28 Nov 1997, there was learning that R. Moses Aron BACH (1809-1879) was married to the daughter of Israel GOLDMANN of Mieschkow in Posen Province, and later learning that her name was Mathilde.

Then, on 14 Jul 2001, from the family papers of R. Aron HEPPNER, there was the information that Israel GOLDMANN’s wife was named Sara, and that her parents were Itzchak and Röschen.  Rabbi HEPPNER’s papers also provided the information that Israel GOLDMANN lived from 1797 to 1863, and that Sara lived from ca.1798 to 1848.


Then, yesterday (17 Jan 2014), the puzzle pieces described in the previous blog entry led to the conclusion that Sara GOLDMANN was Sara GOLDMANN geb. WARSCHAWSKI.  And if Sara was born WARSCHAWSKI, then her father Itzchak must have also been a WARSCHAWSKI:
      meet my great great great great great grandfather Itzchak WARSCHAWSKI.
The only hitch is that his full name is all that is known of him.


In the first 24 hours of knowing the name of my “5x g gf” Itzchak WARSCHAWSKI, I have not been able to find any information about him.  But that has not prevented me from coming up with one theory about the WARSCHAWSKI family.

In Breslau Standesamt records indexed by the group Jewish Records Indexing – Poland (JRI-Poland), there are two records which I believe relate to the same man Isaac WARSCHAWSKI.  One is a death record, the other a marriage record.

The death was that of Helene WARSCHAWSKI geb. TUCHMANN, wife of Isaac WARSCHAWSKI, who died in Breslau in 1897 at age 56 (ca.1841-1897).  She was probably born in Ostrowo, daughter of Abraham TUCHMANN and Rosalie ANGERSKI.


The marriage was that of a 52-year-old Isaac WARSCHAWSKI (b.ca.1846) in Breslau in 1898.  Since he was 52, it seems reasonable to guess that this was a second marriage; and coming a year after the death of Helene, it also seems reasonable to guess that it is the marriage of the same Isaac WARSCHAWSKI; particularly, since both Helene and Isaac each had a connection to the town of Katscher in Upper Silesia.


In 1898, Isaac married the 28-year-old Luise MOSES.  Isaac was probably born in Zerkow in Posen Province.  His parents were Leiser WARSCHAWSKI and Kreindel WOLFSOHN.


Based solely on his name and his age, this Isaac WARSCHAWSKI from Zerkow could be a grandson of Itzchak WARSCHAWSKI.  Itzchak was probably born in the 1770s, and could easily have died before 1846 when Isaac was born.  If Itzchak and Isaac are related, the Zerkow records could be place to look for further clues about this family — though a grandson being born there, would not necessarily mean that the grandfather ever lived there.

On the other hand, Zerkow is only about 10 km northeast of Mieschkow where the GOLDMANN family lived, making it quite reasonable that Itzchak and his daughter Sara WARSCHAWSKI could have been from there.

So, Zerkow will be the first next-step in looking for WARSCHAWSKI clues.