My husband's grandmother, whom he did not know, is said to have come from "Budrug Kerestula near Tokay" which must be Bodrogkeresztúr. Her Hebrew name was Elka-Beila Morganstern; her father was an innkeeper, according to my husband's Uncle Jack Honig (now deceased). She arrived in the US about 1883 at age 13, again according to Uncle Jack, and she started from home with a brother who was detained at the Austrian border and sent to the army. Elka-Beila (later usually seems to have gone by Bertha) is supposed to have had a widower half-cousin named Schlessenger who had 2 kids.
Sometime in the 1890s she married Abraham Honig, a Jew from Mielec, Galicia, by whom she had 1 daughter and 4 sons, all in NYC. She died ca. 1927 in Jersey City.
Sasha Honig
