Wertheim Family of Wehrda,
Hessen-Cassel
from: J Akaha -
akaha@comcast.net
When surnames were chosen in the city of Wehrda, Hesse-Cassel,
there were
three men who chose the name WERTHEIM. A Wehrda register from 1809
shows that
their former names were; Baruch Salomon, Hirsch Salomon and Moses
Salomon. In
Jewish naming tradition, the second name is the name of the father, we
can infer
from their names that these three were all son of Salomon, and
brothers. It is
likely that at some point, their ancestors lived in Wertheim, Germany.
In the
days when Jews only used given names, ancestral towns of origin were
often used
to help identify individuals. Many of the Jews of Cassel were engaged
in trade
cattle trade.
I have not had success in uploading my family tree to this site, so my
tree
appears as a 25 page graphic in the picture section below. It includes
both
pictures and biographical information for the descendants of Baruch
Wertheim b.
1765 Wehrda, Hirsch Wertheim b. 1771 Wehrda, and Moses Wertheim b. 1778
Wehrda.
It is fairly certain that Baruch's son Solomon immigrated to Cleveland,
OH in
1848. Moses' son Baruch immigrated to New York City around the same
time. Hirsch
had a daughter Beile who married Moses Billstein and immigrated to
Cleveland in
1856 after the death of her husband to join most of her children.
Interestingly,
many of these immigrant families started in the cigar trade.
I have also located other offspring of both Hirsch and Moses who
remained in
Germany. Of these, I am discovering relatives who perished in the
holocaust and
others who were able to emigrate in the late 1930's.
Main surnames that appear in the early generations of this family tree
include:
BILLSTEIN, BIRKENRUTH, BUXBAUM, BYCK, FERNBERGER, FRANK, GOLDSTONE,
GRIEF,
HEXTER, HILLER, JACOB, JOSEPH, KAHN, KAMM, KAPPENBERG, LEVI, PLAUT,
ROSENBLATT,
SCHEUER, SCHLOSS, SIMON, SIMSON, STERN, STRAUSS, WEIS, WERTHEIM
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