Michelsohn
I visited Bauska in 2004 and spent two days getting familiar with my charming ancestral town. My great grandfather, Aaron Moshe Michelson, was one of ten children, and he was born January 2, 1856. I have his birth record. His oldest sibling was born in 1847 and the youngest was born in 1871. Aaron's parents, also from Bauska, were Jossel (b. 1821) and Perre (nee Israelsohn) (b. 1823). Jossel's father was Aron Moshe Michelsohn, 1782-1855. His wife was Rebecca and she died at 91 in 1873. My great aunt (Aaron's daughter) was named after her in 1896 in the USA.
When I was in Bauska, the curator of the Bauska museum took me to a house at 14 Rupniecibas iela. It was the house of Shmu Itzik Michelsohn (b. 1840), my great grandfather's first cousin, and the house, very large to accommodate a liquor business and about 14 children, was still standing and available for rent.
Our relatives date back to the 1700's, either in Bauska or in the area just above it which looked down on it. For a while they did not allow the Jews to live in the main city.
The photos below show the house at 14 Rupniecibas iela today and at 14 Armenhaus Strasse in the 1880's or 1890's. You can see the name S.I. Michelson at the left corner of the building and Shmu himself and various members of his family.
Randy Wasserstrom
Shmu Michelsohn and his father Ural