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It's always a huge advantage when indices of baptisms, marriages and deaths have been created from the original records, such as here for the Delbrück baptisms from 1734 to 1794.

https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/deutschland/paderborn/DE_EBAP_11401/KB004a-03-Rt/?pg=32

and the corresponding baptism record of Franciscus Jungesbluth in 1751.

https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/deutschland/paderborn/DE_EBAP_11401/KB003-02-T/?pg=264

Jo'es is a contracted form of Joannes = Johannes. In the naming practices of the period, a boy's first given name was usually a saint's name. It's not entirely surprising to see Franz/Franciscus with the additional Jo'es.

Hello Jan,

Welcome to RC.

I'm sorry about the much-delayed response. I just don't seem to find the time for family history.

I haven't looked at this line for a very, very long time. Thank you for jogging my memory.

The problem is that there is no way of definitively proving Edward's origins - either in east London or elsewhere.

I would suggest that a man born in 1695, was unlikely to have attained the status of 'ship's captain' by 1719 at the tender age of 24.

The EW who was chief mate and later commander on the East India Company's Elizabeth died in 1756 without any children.

I have attached my notes.

Justin

You're welcome.

I was about to add that the 1907 marriage certificate reported that he had died in Bremen.

There probably would be records somewhere in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. But it would certainly be a challenge finding them.

I see that Bertha had a younger sister, Rosalie (http://www.stadt-neukalen.de/verzeichnis/objekt.php?mandat=83440)

Hello Justin,

I can read Majer Wzymberg on line 3, and Itty z (= née/born) Zynger.... on line 9.

According to the database of Jewish Records Indexing (JRI) Poland, Maier Wizemberg married Ita Brandla née Zyngier in Opoczno in 1845. Jakier Wizemberg was born in that same year. Maybe he was Fajga's brother.

If nobody is able to decipher and translate the entire text, I would recommend that you submit it to JewishGen's ViewMate.

Justin

The whole context of Urin's/Uren's appearance and life in Berlin is fascinating. Born in Russian-Poland, he was a citizen of the Russian Empire and undoubtedly obliged to do military service from a young age. In some places, boys as young as 12 were conscripted into the Imperial Army.

This begs the question when did he arrive in Berlin and under what circumstances. Like many Jews, he may have simply been evading military service, particularly in the despised Russian Imperial Army. Many of my German-Jewish male ancestors left Germany to evade such service.

In Berlin, he most probably assumed a German-sounding name to avoid drawing attention to his Eastern European roots. German Jews were well assimilated by the beginning of the 20th century; but there was most definitely discrimination and prejudice against Ostjuden (Jews from the East) within the Jewish communities themselves. Although, by the time he died in 1936 that would have been increasingly difficult.

The switch back to Klajman is equally intriguing. The Nazis started to implement the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Race Laws soon after gaining power in 1933. However, the key law defining Jews in racial terms was enacted on 14 Nov. 1935; a month after the name change and less than a year before Urin's/Uren's death. Although not exclusively a Jewish surname, there were 30 Jewish Kleinmann families in Berlin in 1931. Maybe Aron/Uren/Urin felt that a change to Klajman would mask his Jewish roots.

Aron's name change was recorded on Benjamin's birth certificate because it directly affected him. As a minor, his surname automatically became Klajman.

Incidentally, Minna Henseleit, who registered Benjamin's birth, was Emma's sister. She was born in Berlin in 1897 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/5753/images/42377_prep808_000282-00393?treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Lpu122&_phstart=successSource&pId=3250041