The descendants
of Moses Meier from Guxhagen
FIRST GENERATION :
1. Moses Meier, born 24.09.1770 (1) or 1771 in Bischhausen,
district of Eschwege, son of
Meier Wolf and Rebecca (2). He married Fradchen/Freyde,
nee Juda (3)
or
Levy (1) , from Roehrenfurth, born
around 1776.
They
lived in Guxhagen, Moses Meier was several
professions:
bookbinder (1), sheet metal smith (2,3), butcher (3). Moses
and
Fradchen Meier had six children:
2.
Rachel Meier, born 30.12.1803 in Guxhagen (1)
+ 3. Haje / Chai Meier, born
27.02.1809 (1) or 22.01.1809 (3) in Guxhagen
4. Sarchen
/Freyde Meier, born 03.07.1811 (1) or 21.06.1811
(3) in
Guxhagen, she was married on 29.03.1839 to Heinemann Katzenstein
from Etmannsrode.
+ 5. Meier
(Moses) Meier, born 05.12.1813 (1) or 05.11.1812 (3) in
Guxhagen
6. Jettchen/Guedchen Meier, born 12.04.1815 (1) in Guxhagen. She was
married on 04.03.1840 to Leiser
Windmueller, tailor from Liebenau.
7. Leib Meier, born
08.09.1817 (1) in Guxhagen. He died on 28.11.1827.
Fradchen Meier died on 02.02.1826 at the age of 49 years, 3
months and 2
days in Guxhagen. Moses Meier died on 09.03.1841 in Guxhagen.
I found different dates in different sources:
(1) Hessischer
Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden, Bestand 365, No. 402, Guxhagen, birth-records 1751-1823)
(2) Hessisches
Staatsarchiv Marburg, Bestand 76a, No. 28, 19 Guxhagen
(3) Hessisches
Staatsarchiv Marburg, Bestand 315, 2 Guxhagen.
SECOND GENERATION :
3. Haje /Chai / Hanchen Meier, born 22.01.1809 or
27.02.1809 in Guxhagen. She had two
illegitimate
children:
8. Leib Abraham Meier, born 11.07.1832
in Guxhagen,
he died on 26.09.1832
+ 9. Fradchen Meier, born 10.11.1839 in Guxhagen.
5. Meier Meier, born
05.11.1812 or 05.12.1813 in Guxhagen, bookbinder. He married on
02.08.1836 in Guxhagen Jeanette / Scheinchen Frank, 28 years old, from
Hebenhausen,
daughter of the teacher Samuel and his wife Rahel,
nee Katz.
Meier
and Scheinchen Meier had seven children:
10.
Samuel Meier, born 01.04.1838 in Guxhagen, he
died on 27.05.1844
11. Leib Meier, born 09.06.1839 in Guxhagen,
he died on 31.01.1841
12.
Joseph Meier, born 22.01.1841 in Guxhagen, he
died 07.06.1844
13. Fanni Meier, born 16.01.1843 in Guxhagen
14. Rieka / Rechel Meier, born
23.12.1845 in Guxhagen, she died on
06.07.1847
15.
Moses Meier, born 08.04.1847 in Guxhagen
16.
Kaufmann Meier, born 03.02.1849 in Guxhagen, he
died on
29.07.1850.
Scheinchen Meier died on 10.12.1851 at the age of 45.
Meier
Meier possibly married a second time Regine Meyenfeld after
1856.
In
the death-record from 10.05.1872 she is called “widow of the deceased
bookbinder
Meier Meier, 56 years old”. In the birth-records I
found two
illegitimate children of Regine Zipora Maienfeld from Niederaula:
n
Levi
Maienfeld, born 29.10.1853 in Guxhagen
n
Rickchen Meyenfeld, born
16.01.1856 in Guxhagen.
THIRD GENERATION :
9. Fradchen Meier, born 10.11.1839,
she had a illegitimate daughter:
+ 17. Lehnchen / Helene Meier, born 02.04.1862 in Guxhagen.
On 09.03.1864 Fradchen Meier married Anschel
Herman from Braach,
61 years old, son of the deceased merchant Hirsch Herman from
Barchfeld and
his wife Fradchen, nee Moselin.
In the death-record Fradchen surname is Maienfeld and she is called
“widow, 85 years
old”. She died on 13.12.1926 in Guxhagen.
Possibly
she married a second time N.N. Maienfeld.
FOURTH GENERATION :
17. Lehnchen / Helene Meier, born 02.04.1862.
She was married on 17.10.1893 to
Daniel Katz (II), butcher, 48 years old, son of Bonum
Katz
and his wife Beschen, nee Speier. Lehnchen
and Daniel Katz
had a son:
+ 18. Benjamin Katz, born 22.03.1899 in
Guxhagen
Daniel Katz died on 02.05.1901 in Guxhagen. Lehnchen Katz
was deported from
She perished in
Treblinka on 29.09.1942.
FIFTH GENERATION :
18. Benjamin (Benni) Katz, born 22.03.1899,
he married on 22.10.1922 Frieda Kleeblatt,
born 02.06.1896 in Roehrenfurth, daughter
of Noa Kleeblatt and
his wife Fanny, nee Kann. Benjamin
and Frieda Katz had a son:
+
19. Daniel Katz, born 16.03.1924 in Guxhagen.
Benjamin Katz was
arrested in Breitenau
09.11. – 11.11.1938 as
„Schutzhaeftling“ and
he was deported from
09.12.1941. He perished on 27.07.1944 in
SIXTH GENERATION :
19. Daniel Katz, born 16.03.1924. He was arrested in Breitenau 09.11 – 11.11.1938 as
“Schutzhaeftling”. He was deported
from
He survived, was liberated and
came to
from
Compiled by Hans-Peter K l e i n
Melsungen, April 2011