Analysis: Five members are listed in this Gruber family household. There is another larger Gruber family next in the revision (see household #14) The head of household here is Moshko-Leib, age 34, also called Srul-Noeh. He and his wife, Surah, age 32, were both in the 1850 census. Their son Mordko who was born in 1850 at the age of 5. Their daughter Rivka who was in 1850 census is still present here and is now 16 years old. A new addition to the family appears: a 4 year old daughter by the name of Molka-Roislya, who was born in 1854.

The Rivka Gruber who is listed here at age 16 is believed to be the ancestress of the Demb family descendants. The few details we have about that Rivka Gruber come from the memoire of one of her granddaughters (Clara Fram) written in 1980 in Baltimore. Clara has childhood memories of her grandmother Rivka. Here memoire indicates that Rivka Gruber was an only child and had a father named Moshe Gruber. According to the memoire, Rivka's father, Moshe Gruber, owned a brass and copper foundry in Mlynov that employed a large number of men. When Rivka was of marrying age at 11 years old, her father went in search of a scholarly husband for her and brought back, Israel Jacob Demb, from Ludmir (Voldymyr Volinsky). Rivka and Israel Jacob Demb had nine children, seven of whom later migrated to the US. The match between the later Rivka Gruber and the Rivka Gruber here is not perfect but it is suggestive.^[8] If this is the same Rivka Gruber, we now learn for the first time that her mother's first name was Surah, that she had a brother who died, and at least one of sister.

You can read more about the subsequent history of Rivka's descendants in the Demb/Guber family and the memories of Rivka in the memoire of her granddaughter, Clara Fram.

[8] On the face of it, it is hard to believe that this Rivka Gruber who has a father named Moshko-Leib is not the later ancestress remembered in the Demb family as Rivka Gruber, daughter of Moshe. But there are a few discrepancies. I'm inclined to believe those discrepancies can be accounted for as mistaken recollections of a young Clara Fram who left Mlynov in 1908 at the age of six and who wrote down her memoire in 1980 as part of an adult education class.

Thus Clara may have remembered her grandmother as a only child when she wasn't or perhaps Rivka's sister also died and her grandmother had no living siblings when Clara was young. The ages also don't precisely fit. Clara indicates that Rivka was 11 when she was married off, which must be a story that she heard. If Rivka was married at 11, she would be married already in this census. However, know that the Rivka's oldest daughter, Pesse Demb (Clara's mother) was born in about 1864 from later Baltimore census records. If Rivka was 16 in 1858, as this revision suggests, she would have been 24 in 1864 when her eldest daughter was born, a plausible age for childbearing. ↩

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Analysis: This Braer family does not appear in 1850. However, this 1858 census says that the wife, Esther-Maria, was present in 1850 and was born in 1836. One possibility is that Esther-Maria here was Esther Osterman in the 1850 census who was born in 1835. She no longer appears in 1858 in the Osterman family and may have gotten married as noted in the discussion of that family. The only other Esther who appeared in 1850 was too young to be married in 1858.

Analysis: In contrast to the prior Gruber family (household #12) this one is quite large. There are 14 members listed, all of whom are related to the head of household, Shimon Gruber, who died at the age of 61 in 1850, apparently after that revision was taken. Shimon's wife Haya-Beila, also listed in 1850, is no longer present in the household, suggesting perhaps that she had passed as well. The rest of the household is comprised of the families of their two sons (Aisik-El and Moshko-Aron), all but one of whom were present in 1850 as well. A third son of Shimon and Haya-Beila named Mendel-Itsko had been marked in the 1850 revision as recruited at the age of 23; he has not reappeared in town by this 1858 revision.

Aisik-El and his wife Hava and their three daughters (Basia, Feiga and Rukhlya) are still present at the ages of 18, 13, and 10. However, the whereabouts are unknown of their son, Abram-Yos, who was age 15 in the 1850 census and would be around 23 years old in 1858. Whether he was in hiding to avoid conscription or had gone to live elsewhere, is not known.

Moshko-Aron, the elder son of Shimon and Haya-Beila, is also present with his wife Gitlya and four daughters, Dina 14, Dvoira 11, Enta 9, and new in this census to the family, Khvulya-Rukhlya who is now 5.

While it seems plausible that this Gruber family included the ancestors of the other known Gruber line from subsequent Mlynov family descendants, it is not possible at this time to identify a direct connection. We know, for example, that Rachel (1894-1980) and Sonia Gruber (1900- ) (who both married Teitelmans) were the daughters of Yosef Gruber, who was, according to their family memories, a son of Mordechai Gruber. When was Mordechai Gruber born? If we assume Rachel's father and grandfather Mordechai married between the ages of 17 and 20, we can guess that Mordechai Gruber was born between 1854-1860. Thus it is possible that this Mordechai Gruber, ancestor of the other Gruber line, was to be born shortly after this 1858 census.

[9] The 1858 revision here indicates that the ages of the women were not listed in the 1850 census though they were. Hava was 36, Basia 10, Feiga 5, Rukhlya 2, Gitlya 26, Dina 6, Dvoira 3, Enta 1. ↩

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In the 1850 census, the Vasserman family had 5 membes listed. The head of the household Michel-Leib (or Mikhel-Leib), however, had already passed away in 1840 at about the age of 47. Remaining in the household in 1850 was his wife Itta, and his sons, Noech-Moshko. His other son, Levi-Itsko, was listed but not present at the time of the census but his wife Pesya was in the household.

Since 1850, the household had changed substantially. The son, Noech-Moshko,had become head of household but had himself passed away in 1858 at the age of 37. There is no mention in this 1858 revision or the prior one of Noech-Moshko's wife (the mother of his children). Nonetheless, remaining in the household are his two daughters, neither of whom were born in 1850: Feiga-Itta, age 4, and Hana-Libam, age 2. Also listed in the household is his son Mendel, age 18, who was not listed in 1850 and may have been in hiding or another town.

The whereabouts of Noech-Moshko's brother, Levi-Itsko, is listed as unknown since 1856. However, a duplicate record for him appears at the end of the original revision list out of order indicating he must have shown up later in the process. It is reproduced here at the bottom of the household list. He is listed as 34 years old. His wife Pesa, who was present in 1850, is still present in the household in 1858 along with two new daughters, Maria, age 6 and Rukhlya-Leia, age 1.

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Analysis: In 1858, the Taxer household is comprised of a head of household, Gershon and his son, Tsal and their respective families. Gershon's father, Sender Gersh, had passed away already by 1843 and Gershon's brother Berko had been on the run since 1846 and had not reappeared. Present in the household is also Gershon's wife, Yahid, and daughter, Hava, both of whom were present in 1850. Two new daughters were born in the intervening years: Maria, age 6, and Bruha, age 3.

The household also expanded with Gershon's son Tsal marrying, Pesya-Gudya, age 20, and having a daughter Mari-Reizya, age 4. Pesya was born in 1838 would have been not more than 16 years old when she gave birth to her daughter Maria-Reizya. There is no girl named "Pesya" in the 1850 census who had a matching the date of birth and so it is possible she came from another town.

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Analysis: Between 1850 and 1858, this Weitser / Weiser family lost their head of household. Ios passed away in 1851 at the age of 56. He had been born in 1795, just a couple years after Mlynov became part of Russia.

It seems likely that this Weitser family is related to the Weitser family in household 5 above. Ios, the head of household here who died in 1851 was the son of Yudko and was born in 1795. In the other Weitser household, the head of the household Gersh is also son of Yudko and was born in 1797 (two years younger than Ios here). It seems odd that both men, likely brothers, died the same year in 1851 unless something happened to them together.

When Ios passed away in this household, his widow, Risya (or Reesya), age 44, was still present in the household with their son El, who is now 20, and their daughter Yahna, who is 14. Two other children are mentioned in 1858 who did not appear in the earlier 1850 revision. Moshko-Meer is listed here as having died at the age of 21 in 1858. Since he was not listed in 1850 revision when he was 14, it is unclear whether he was in hiding or whether his death was related to conscription or some other cause. More perplexing is the presence for the first time of their daughter, Liba, age 14, who also was not listed in the 1850 revision, for reasons that are not clear, since she would have been age 6 at the time and had no reason to be in hiding, unless the family was trying to avoid taxes or the revision taker had simply been sloppy.

Two interesting points are worthy of note: First, in other households the widow has typically disappeared between 1850 and 1858 after the death of her husband, whether because she passed away or left the household for some other reason like remarriage. Here is a case where the head of the household's widow is still present. Second, it is interesting that the daughter Yahna has reached the age of 25 and is not yet married. We see few daughters still in the household at that age and we can speculate that she may have been considered an "old maid" or a "Yentl" (independent woman) in the town.

[10] The 1858 and 1850 revisions are often inconsistent with each other in the age of daughters and sometimes wives and sons. In this case, as previously, the women in the household who were listed in the 1850 revision did have ages listed, but the 1858 revision lists them as having no age indicated in 1850. This leads me to suspect that the census taker in 1858 did not have the 1850 revision in front of him when he was doing the revision. That would also explain, perhaps, the inconsistency that the son, Moshko-Meer, is listed in the 1858 revisionalso as if he were present in the 1850 revision, while the 1850 revision does not list him. One can guess that he was in hiding in 1850 or out of town, but that when the 1858 revision was taken, the family didn't know that since the head of household had died, and went ahead and mentioned his name as a houshold member who died since 1850. ↩

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Analysis: The whereabouts of the former head of household, Berko Berinson-Fishman, is unknown in the 1858 revision and also missing from this revision is his wife, Etya, and one of his daughters, Rita, who were both present in 1850. The household is now comprised of Berko's son, Moshko-Ios (aka Duvid-Ios), and his other daughter, Basia, both of whom were present in 1850. Basia is now age 14 and Moshko-Ios, now 22, has since taken a wife, Leia, who is age 20 and was born in 1838. In the 1850 revision, there is no Leia listed who was born in 1838 so Moshko-Ios may have found his wife in another town. It is interesting to note that Moshko-Ios apparently didn't have to flee Mlynov between 1850 and 1858 when he was between 14 and 22 years of age.

No relationship is evident betwee this Berinson-Fishman household and the later family of Moishe Fishman from Mlynov, who made aliyah in 1921. Rather, he appears to be the son of Ber Fishman listed in Family # 36. See discussion there.

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Analysis: According to the 1850 revision, the prior head of household, Leib, had died in 1845. Here we learn his son, Gavriel, had assumed the the head of the household role, but had passed away in 1855 at the age of 41. Gavriel's widow, Gita, and daughter, Esther, who were present in 1850 are now absent and perhaps they had gone to live with Gita's family after her husband had died.

Gavriel's son, Pesach-Wolf, however, is still present in the houshold. He was 14 in 1850 and is now 22. He has since gotten married to Hana (or Khana) who is 22 in 1858 and was born in 1836. They have a son, Itsko, who was born between 1850 and 1858.

Although the match isn't perfect, it is possible that Hanah, the new wife mentioned here, was Hana Gelbarg who appears in the 1850 revision in the Gelbarg family (household #26) and disappears from the Gelbarg family in this 1858 revision (household #29). However, her birth year is 1832 in the 1850 revision whereas here her implied birth year is 1836.

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Analysis: Itsko-Srul is still head of the Lerner family as he was in 1850. Living in the household with him is his wife, Sosya, and his son, Leib, who is also known as Litman-Leib. It appears that Sosya may be a new wife. In the 1850 census, Itsko-Srul's wife was named Hena (and Genya) and she was born in 1820. Here his wife is named Sosya and her birth year is 1828. Sosya is 10 years younger than Itsko-Srul. There is no Sosya listed at all in 1858 and perhaps she came from another town.

Since 1850, Itsko-Srul's son, Leib, had gotten married to a woman named Huma, age 21 in 1858, and they have a one year old daughter, Beila, in the household. There is no other Huma in the 1850 revision so again it seems possible that Huma was from another town.

It seems very possible that Itsko-Srul Lerner, listed here, is the father of Joseph Abraham Lerner from Mlynov who migrated to Baltimore in 1913. From Joseph Lerner's tombstone, we know that his father's name was remembered as "Yitzhak Yisrael," which is very easily the Hebrew version of the Russian rendered "Itsko-Srul" (Srul being a shortened form of Yisroel). Furthermore, Joseph named his son "Itcik," who was probably named after Joseph's father. Joseph was born in about 1866 based on Baltimore records. This Itsko-Srul would have been 48 in 1866 when Joseph was born.

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Analysis: The Faerstein household changed substantially since the 1850 revision. Lazor, the head of household, passed away in 1854 at the age of 47. He has four sons listed in this list: Yitzhak, Gershko, Itsko, Rakhmiel. Gershko is present in the household at the age of 20. The other 3 sons are no longer present. The whereabouts of Rakhmiel, are unknown as of 1857 at the age of 40. Also missing from the household, apparently with him, are his wife, two daughters and two sisters who were all present in 1850. Presumably they are all living with him elsewhere.

A third son, Itsko, adopted the Christian faith, possibly under pressure to avoid conscription. He was 16 in the 1851 revision. A fourth son, Yitzhak, appears twice in this 1858 revision list. He appears once here as "whereabouts unknown." His reapears in the 1851 supplement along with his wife and daughter. Yitzhak is listed there as 33, his wife Malka, 30, and his daughter Blyuma, 5. There are a couple young women named "Malka" in Mlynov in 1850 but none whose birth year matches 1828 like Yitzhak's wife. It may be that she came from another town.

[11] The translator has noted that for this family this 1858 revision list references an 1851 revision list (instead of an 1850 one) which is not located at this time. Some of these individuals here were in household #4 in that Revision List 1851. ↩

[11b] Yitzhak is listed twice in the revision with almost identical information. The first time he is listed here as part of household 21. Here he is listed as whereabouts unknown. Much further down in the list, after household 54, he is mentioned a second time with his wife Malka and daughter Blyuma, as if they appeared before the revision taker sometime later. ↩

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Analysis: The Bronstein family had shrunk and changed substantially since 1850. Itsko who was head of the household, now 38, had taken over for his father, Usher, who had died in 1840 at the age of 36, even before the 1850 revision. Itsko's mother, Zlata, who was widowed in 1840 at the age of 42, is no longer listed in 1858. We don't know if she remarried, passed away or returned to her family of origin. Itsko's two sisters are also no longer in the household. Makhlya, who was 20 in 1850, most likely got married and left the household. Also missing is his younger sister, Brana, who was 7 in 1850 and would be 15 in 1858. It is possible she married or perhaps she was with her mother, Zlata, who also no longer appears here.

In the household with Itsko is his uncle, Duvid-Nusin (also called Nusin-Duvid), age 43, Duvid-Nusin's wife, Tema, age 30, who was thirteen years younger than her husband. She was clearly not old enough to be the mother of Duvid-Nusin's son, Shmul-Shaya, who is listed here, but who had passed away in 1855 at the age of 25.

It is unusual for a man to be called an uncle of the head of the family in the census, as David-Nusin is here. Usually, the brother of the prior head of household would take over when his brother passed. But Duvid-Nusin had "escaped" in 1835 at the age of 22, according to the 1850 census. Apparently he had with him his young son, Shmul-Shaya, who is also listed in the 1850 revision as having "escaped" in 1835 at the age of 3. Now twenty-eight years later, Duvid-Nusin at the age of 43 had returned to Mlynov with a new wife. Apparently, he felt safe from punishment this much later or perhaps the records of his earlier escape were archived far away and no threat. In fact, the 1858 revision list simply says he was not present in 1850 and does not appear to know he had been absent because he had escaped. What must it have been like to return to his brother's home, after his brother had died, and to be living in the household of his nephew?

Duvid-Nusin was not the only one of the Bronstein to be touched by the Russian efforts at conscription. In the 1850 revision, Itsko's brother, Gersh, was listed as recruited in 1839 at the age of 12. Gersh has not reappeared in Mlynov by 1858 and we don't know if he ever made it back home.

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