Happy Mother's Day, L2a1l2a!

Happy Mother's Day to my late mother Norma, grandmother Tillie, great grandmother Bertha and my great great grandmother Reisel!

Bertha Wenkert Liebross

I do not know the maiden name of my great great grandmother Reisel Wenkert from the Zaleszczyki area of today's Ukraine but among her children was my great grandmother, Breindel Wenkert, born about 1868. 

I know Breindel had one elder sister, Perl Wenkert Ett, who died in Skole, Austria in 1895. Perl had five daughters, all of whom bore daughters, as well (she also had a son, but that information is not helpful for following out MtDNA results). Beyond Perl and Breindel, I do not yet know of any other siblings.

Breindel married Eliezer (Leiser) Liebross. They resided in Radautz, Austrian Empire (now Radauti, Romania) and had eight children. 

Leiser and Breindel  immigrated in 1897 and 1898, respectively, and became Louis and Bertha Liebross in New York City.

Tillie Liebross Wilson

Their eldest child was my grandmother Tillie (born about 1888 in Radautz). Tillie attended school through the eighth grade. She married Joseph Wilson in 1917 in New York City. Of Louis and Bertha's three daughters, Tillie was the only one to bear children who lived to adulthood.

Tillie was not the stereo-typical white-haired grandmother. While she was doting and a superb cook, she dyed her hair to match her former auburn locks. She was ten when she became an immigrant and in later years did not have an accent from the Old Country. I think this photo (at left) really shows her as stylish woman.

Joe and Tillie's second child was my mother Norma Circe Wilson, born in Brooklyn in 1921. The Wilson's did well financially and purchased their two-family home in Brooklyn at 31 Colin Place. 

Me and my mother Norma Wilson Garber (about 1977)

Both Norma and her brother Ira attended Lincoln High School and then New York University. Norma graduated in 1941. She worked as a bookkeeper for a few years before marrying Bernard Garber in 1947. She became a home-maker after my brother Jim was born.

Our maternal line mitochondrial DNA haplogroup is L2a1l2a. Unfortunately, our haplogroup is an exact match with 25 other people who have tested with Family Tree DNA. Thus far, there does not appear to be any discernible common ancestor among us.

Treasure Chest Thursday: 1930 Census, Jack Garber & Max Garber Families

Census records are the first cause for excitement of budding genealogists. They provide so much information in one bite. Very satisfying.

The 1930 Census enumeration for my grandparents Jack and Dora Morris Garber finds them at, most likely, the best of times.

1930 U.S. Census, Kings County, New York, population schedule, Brooklyn, Enumeration District (ED) 24-1303, sheet 1B, dwelling 18, family 21, Jack Garber; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 January 2014), citing National Archives microfilm publication T626, roll 1497, Family History Library microfilm 2,341,232.

They had three three children (Leah, 12, Bernard, 11, and Lenny, 6) all in school. They owned their home at East 12th Street, Brooklyn, New York, next door to Jack's brother Max and his family. Jack was a business partner with Phillip Kaplan. The two were glaziers and owned a shop called Kaplan and Garber.

1948 E. 12th Street - family owned home valued at $9000

Garber, Max; Age 40;  married; age married 24; born in Russia; father born in Russia

Garber, Mary; Age 38; married; age married 22; born in Austria; father born in Austria

Garber, Ruth; Age 15; single; born in New York; father born in Russia

Garber, Mildred; Age 13, single; born in New York; father  born in Russia

Garber, Annette; Age 9; single; born in New York; father born in Russia

1950 E. 12th Street - family owned home valued at $9000

Garber, Jack; Age 35; married; age married 21; born in Russia; father born in Russia

Garber, Dora; Age 33; married; age married 19; born in Russia; father born in Russia

Garber, Leah; Age 12; single; born in New York; father born in Russia

Garber, Bernard; Age 11; single; born in New York; father born in Russia

Garber, Leonard; Age 6; single; born in New York; father born in Russia

Garber, Max; mother born in Russia; native language Jewish; immigrated 1906; Alien; speaks English; Dealer in butter and eggs, own business; Not a military veteran.

Garber, Mary; mother born in Austria; native lang. Jewish; immigrated 1901; Alien; speaks English

Garber, Ruth; mother born in Austria; speaks English

Garber, Mildred; mother born in Austria; speaks English

Garber, Annette; mother born in Austria; speaks English

Garber, Jack: mother born in Russia; native lang. Jewish; immigrated 1913; Naturalized; speaks English; Dealer - glass company, own business; Not a military veteran

Garber, Dora; mother born in Russia; native land. Jewish; immigrated 1910; Naturalized; speaks English

Garber, Leah; mother born in Russia; speaks English

Garber, Bernard; mother born in Russia; speaks English

Garber, Leonard; mother born in Russia; speaks English

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A few things stand out as incorrect in this record. 

• Max actually arrived in New York on 29 December 1907[1]; and 
• Jack arrived on 3 September 1912.[2]

(I have not located Mary's manifest, so I do not know when she arrived from the Austrian Empire.)

Jack was a citizen by 1930. having completed the naturalization process 26 June 1924. 

• Dora, however, did not complete the citizenship process until 17 August 1943.[3]

Notes:
1. “New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957,” digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 February 2009), manifest, S.S. Pretoria, Hamburg, Germany to New York, arriving 29 December 1907, list 10, line 5, Motel Garber; citing National Archives microfilm publication T715, roll 1067.
2. “New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957,” digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 February 2009), manifest, S.S. Birma, Libau, Latvia to New York, arriving 2 September 1912, list 26, line 8, Jankel Arber; citing National Archives microfilm publication T715, roll 1926.  
3. Dora Garber Petition for Naturalization (1943), naturalization file no. 378602, Eastern District of New York, Recordds of the District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21, National Archives - Northeast region, New York City.

Treasure Chest Thursday: Dr. Jerry Liebross - Hero

This unfortunate story published at the end of September 1925, places my great uncle Jerry Liebross (aka Joseph Jerome Liebross) in the role of first responder. While this experience must have had an effect on Jerry, it was not a story that entered family lore.

Jerry was one of the two Liebross brothers (youngest sons of Louis and Bertha Liebross) who had graduated from dental school (the other being younger brother, Irving). In 1925 at about age 27, Jerry was living with his parents and siblings at 291 Stuyvesant Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.[1]

The Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, NY), 29
 September 1925, page 3, column 8; digital
 images, Old Fulton, New York Postcards
  (http://www.fultonhistory.com: accessed
 19 March 2013).  

FALL OF 3 STORIES

FATAL TO BABY SON

OF DR. DOOLING

   Three-year old Eugene Dooling, son of Dr. John Dooling of the Kings Park Hospital for the Insane, died in Bushwick Hospital early today of injuries received yesterday when he fell three stories from the apartment of his aunt, Mrs. Emeline Kane of 304 Stuyvesant ave., where he was visiting with his parents and his 7-year-old brother, Joseph.

   The children were amusing themselves in a front room while their parents and their grandmother, Mrs. Katherine Murim, of 17 Van Buren st., talked in another part of the apartment. Suddenly Joseph ran to his father and said he didn't know where Baby Eugene had gone.

   "He was sitting on the window sill and I was looking at the funny papers," said the child. "I said something to him, and he didn't answer. When I looked around he was gone."

   A glance at the window where Eugene had sat told the frantic parents all they needed to know. the screen had been torn away. The little fellow had leaned too hard against it and had plunged to the ground.

   When Dr. Dooling reached the street Dr. J. E. Liebross, a dentist living across the way, was giving what aid he could to the broken little figure of Eugene. The child was rushed to the hospital, where it was found he had sustained a fracture of the skull, a broken back and a broken leg. He died without regaining consciousness.

____________________________________

Notes:
1. 1925 New York State Census, Kings County, New York, Enumeration of Inhabitants, Brooklyn, Enumeration District 11, Assembly District 5, page 4, house number 291 Stuyvesant, Jerry Liebross, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 January 2013).

Treasure Chest Thursday: Burglar Suspects Nabbed by Sleuths

BURGLAR SUSPECTS

  NABBED BY SLEUTHS[1]

__________

Detectives Trail Two Men on

Street and Capture Them

in Woman's House.

_________

HAD BUNCH OF SIXTY KEYS.

__________

Mrs. Anna Liebross Says They

Tried to Rob Her.

_____

    Detectives Chas. Byer and James McCormick were on the steps of the Gates avenue police station yesterday afternoon, when they saw two young men pass by.

    "Those birds don't look good to me; let's follow them," remarked Byers.

    Trailing the men for eight blocks, they noticed them peering into standing automobiles, as though looking for valuables.

    The sleuths them saw them mount the steps of a private house at 280 Stuyvesant avenue and ring the bell. There was no response to the ring and the suspects took keys from their pockets, the detectives say, and entered the house, leaving the door open behind them. Byer and McCormick followed and secreted themselves in the hallway. They watched the two men make their way to the second floor of the house and soon heard the jingling of keys.

    "Help! Police!" came a woman's voice. Downstairs dashed the two men and the detectives seized them. They took them to the woman upstairs, Mrs. Anna Liebross, who identified them and said that they had tried to rob her.

    The men described themselves as Joseph Schmitt, 24 years old, a laborer, of 47 Herbert street, Maspeth, and Anthony Evans, 21, a driver, of 226 Manhattan avenue. The detectives searched the prisoners and say that they found sixty keys attached to a leather strap. On Schmitt, it is said,were found thirty-one pawn tickets for clothing and household articles pledged in various Brooklyn pawnshops under the names of "Jones" and "Cohen."

    The men will be taken before Magistrate McGuire to-day in Gates avenue police court on charges of attempted burglary. 

 _______________________________

This 27 November 1920 publication is the second time I've located a newspaper article with one of my relatives as victim of a criminal. Anna Liebross was, at the time, the wife Max. Their address at 280 Stuyvesant Avenue, Brooklyn, would have been across the street from his parents and siblings at 291 Stuyvesant Avenue. [2] When this event occurred, they had three children: Rose, Harold and Gertrude. In 1923 they would have a fourth: Morris. Sometime after that, Max left his family. Daughter Rose died in 1928. [3]

Reading this article and knowing the difficult life that Anna lived, I am relieved that the thieves were caught so quickly and without further incident.

Note:

1. The Standard Union (Brooklyn, NY), 27 November 1920, page 6, column 7; digital images, Old Fulton, New York Postcards (http://www.fultonhistory.com: accessed 8 January 2013).   
2. 1920 U.S. Census, Kings County, New York, population schedule, Brooklyn, Enumeration District 294, sheet 13A, dwelling 173, family 271, Louis Liebross; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 January 2012).
3. Kings County, New York, Certificate of Death no. 16457 (31 July 1928), Rose Liebross, New York City Municipal Archives, New York.  

Treasure Chest Thursday: The Liebross Family Circle

For many years the Liebross and Ett families held Family Circle meetings in Brooklyn, New York. The following article was found in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Wednesday, 22 June 1938. [1]

 

FAMILY CIRCLE PARTY

     The Louis and Bertha Liebross Family Circle, 31 Colin Place, will hold a strawberry festival in the Galleon Grill Room of the Half Moon Hotel this evening.[2]

     The chairman of the committee is Mrs. Tillie Wilson, who is being assisted by Mrs. Sarah Cohn, Mrs. Bessie Ett, J.J. Liebross and Miss Cele Liebross.

     The president of the organization is Mrs. Sarah Cohn; vice president, Irving Liebross; treasurer, Jack Wilson, and recording secretary, Max Rappaport.

The Family Circle was essentially a social organization for cousins who were descendants of two sisters: Bertha Wenkert Liebross and Perl Wenkert Ett.

Tillie Wilson was Louis and Bertha Liebross' eldest daughter. "Jack" Wilson was actually Joe Wilson, Tillie's husband. J.J. Liebross (Jerry), "Cele" (Celia) and Irving were also Louis the Bertha's children.

Sarah Cohn was the daughter of Perl Ett. Mrs. Bessie Ett was married to Perl's son David Ett. Max Rappaport was of the younger generation. He was the grandson of Perl Ett and the son of Perl's daughter, Chaitza (also known as Clara) and Chaim (aka Adolph) Rappaport.

Note:
1. The Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), Wednesday, 22 June 1938, page 9, column 8; digital images, Old Fulton, New York Postcards (http://www.fultonhistory.com: accessed 18 March 2010).
2. The half Moon Hotel was a 14 story building that opened at Coney Island in 1927.One may read about it in the Ephemeral New York blog and in this article from the New York Times.

Treasure Chest Thursday: Simon Liebross 1892 NY Census

Thought I'd start blogging on Thursdays regarding records I have in my digital files.

First up is the earliest incidence I have of a relative appearing in a census in the United States: the 1892 New York State Census record for my great great uncle Simon Liebross. Enumerated on 16 February 1892.

1892 New York State Census, Kings County, New York, City of Brooklyn, Enumeration District (ED) 14, Ward 16, sheet 19, 26 Moore Street, Simon Librose and Addie Librose; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 July 2010). 

Simon Liebross and his wife Ethel appear at the lower left portion of the image, above. Liebross is rendered "Librose" and Ethel's first name is listed as "Addie." It's possible that she was called Ettie (a common nickname for Ethel) and the census enumerator heard "Addie."

Name: Simon Librose
Male or Female: Male
Age: 34
In what country born: Germany
Citizen or alien: Alien 
Occupation: Laborer 

Name: Addie Librose
Male or Female: Female
Age: 30
In what country born: Germany
Citizen or alien: [no entry] 
Occupation: [no entry]

While Simon and Addie probably spoke some German, they were never of German nationality. When they had emigrated 2 years earlier, their village Krasnoilsk was in the Austrian Empire.

When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 4

When my father died in 2002 and my mother began her precipitous decline (dying eight months later) my brother and I began the arduous task of cleaning out the house. In my mother's dresser drawer I found a packet of twelve envelopes containing letters my father had sent her during their courtship. The letters are sweet and humorous, completely reminiscent of my father's personality. They are a wonderful chronicle of the beginning of their enduring love-affair.

In honor of what would be my parents 66th anniversary on February 9th, I will be posting a letter each day along with an annotated transcription adding additional insights and explication.

____________________________

Between the 10 July 1945 letter and this 3 August 1945 letter, Sonny was reassigned from Chanute Field to Langley Field, Virginia. As noted in this letter, he took some leave in Brooklyn and visited with Norma Wilson. Notice the salutation where he is finally able to use the L word.

                                               Friday August 3, 1945

Dear Norm,

    I was sorry to say so long Tuesday night and after I saw you Wednesday I was left with a feeling that I find it hard to describe. All the way down here I kept thinking of you and I still can't get you out of my mind.

    I spent years convincing myself that I was the world's number one woman hater but all those years have gone for naught. I must be getting soft in the cranium, think of my reputation. What is my trouble Mr. Anthony? [1] Is it her long black hair, those big eyes or that tilting eyebrow. Maybe it's the combination of many things. If this were the older days I would have you arrested for witchcraft. Is it possible that a thing like that can happen to a guy like me in a short span of seven days. Perhaps time will help me in my dilemma, then again who wants help.

    I arrived here two o'clock in the morning and went right to the good old sack. All the fellows I came down with have now been assigned to a permanent outfit. Once again I am among strangers but I'll get acquainted shortly. It has happened to me many times before. Nobody has called for me and I certainly won't volunteer my services. I hope they forget about me.

    I have returned a bitter soldier with only one aim. That is to get out of this army. I spoke of South Africa, Argentina, and Pearl Harbor but all I want to do is get back to B'klyn and stay there.

    It hasn't been so long that I've seen you but how are you? What are you doing besides working? Did you finally catch up on your lost sleep? How's Rosolina? (Is that right?) [2] How do you look? How are your folks?

    The weather here is beautiful but very hot. How is it at home? I hope the sun finally came out.

    See if you can find a snapshot of yourself and send it to me. That is if you want to.

    I can't think anything else, right now, so I'll sign off. Write as soon as you can and be good. Say hello to everyone for me.
                                                                                                          Love
                                                                                                          Sonny

Notes:
1. This is a reference to a radio program called the Goodwill Hour with John J. Anthony who dispensed marital advice. The stock phrase was, "Mr. Anthony, I have a problem!" 
2. "Rosolina" was likely Rosella Mass Siskind (1922-2003), my mother Norma's friend since childhood. Rosella and her family moved to 28 Colin Place (across the street from the Wilsons) sometime between 1925 and 1930. By the 1940 Census, Rosella's father, Nathaniel Mass, had died and Rosella and her mother Elizabeth and two brothers lived about a block and a half from Colin Place on 1970 East 1st Street, Brooklyn, New York. Rosella married Erwin Siskind (1817-1997). Interestingly, in the 1970s while I was attending Wellington C. Mepham High School in Bellmore, New York, Rosella started teaching there. I believe she taught math. I never took a class with Mrs. Siskind. 

Other posts in this series:
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 1
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 2
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 3
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 5 
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 6
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 7 
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 8 
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 9 
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 10 
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 11
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 12
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: 66th Wedding Anniversary 

When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 1

When my father died in 2002 and my mother began her precipitous decline (dying eight months later) my brother and I began the arduous task of cleaning out the house. In my mother's dresser drawer I found a packet of twelve envelopes containing letters my father had sent her during their courtship. The letters are sweet and humorous, completely reminiscent of my father's personality. They are a wonderful chronicle of the beginning of their enduring love-affair.

In honor of what would be my parents 66th anniversary on February 9th, I will be posting a letter each day along with an annotated transcription adding additional insights and explication.

____________________________

My mother, nee Norma Circe Wilson, wasn't one to feign inability in some coquettish notion of fetching femininity. On their first date, a bowling outing set up by my father's first cousin Annette Garber (my mother's friend from Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, New York), my mother out-scored my father. [1] He was smitten.

My father, Bernard (Sonny) Garber, was in the Army Air Corps training for his eventual deployment to Rattlesden, England and he and my mother did not have contact, apparently, for about two and a half years. When he returned to the States and he took leave back in Brooklyn, New York, he called her and they dated. This first letter, from 25 June 1945, was written from the base Chanute Field, Illinois (about 130 miles south of Chicago), shortly after his stay in Brooklyn.

Monday June 25, 1945

Dear Norma,

  Two and a half years ago I told you that I would write and here I am. You must admit I don't go back on my promises even if it did take a little time.

  Seriously, it was nice seeing you and I was hoping that I would get one more weekend at home. As luck would have it, they decided to speed up the process and I find myself out here. [2] 

  I arrived here late last night and haven't had much of a chance to find out everything but I imagine I won't mind this place too much. In this place I have really returned to the army routine of reveille and calisthenics but I'll get used to it again. The one compensation is that we are only 110 miles from Chicago and I will be able to go to that fair city occasionally. Here I shall take a specialist course in airplane instruments which should help me in the army and possibly in civilian life, too. A discharge seems very remote although that is foremost in my mind.

  How is my little numerical juggler getting on? [3] Fine I hope. I spoke to my mother before I left A.C. and she told me that she saw you. What are you doing these days?

  Well, Wilson I'll say bye now and be good. If you get some time drop me a line but please don't take as long as I took.

                                                                                            So Long

      

                                                                                            Sonny

_______________________________

Notes:

1. Annette Garber (1922-1996) was the daughter of Max and Mary Garber.
2. The return address on the envelope is:

T/SGT. B. Garber 12057376
3502 BASE UNIT
Sq K BKs 428
Chanute Field, ILL

3. Norma Wilson worked as a bookkeeper.

Other posts in this series: 
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 2  
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 3 
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 4 
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 5 
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 6
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 7
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 8
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 9 
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 10
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 11
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: Courtship Letters, 12
When Bernie (Sonny) met Norma: 66th Wedding Anniversary  

1940 U.S. Census: Searching for the Myers Family

David and Ida (Chaye Sarah) Malzmann came to the United States in 1913 from Lubin, Russian Empire (today Ukraine) after all their sons and daughters had emigrated the New York City and changed the family name to Myers. David's brother, Zachary, followed in 1921 after his two sons, Israel and Jacob, were established in New York, as well. 

By 1940, the older generation had passed and some of the children had also. Myer, the first to emigrate to the USA in 1902, died in 1936 (in Monticello, NY where he'd retired to the Catskills), Louis in 1938 (in the Bronx), and Rebecca Myers Sotskess in January 1940 (in Manhattan). Eldest daughter, Sarah Myers Morris was discussed in a previous blog post with her Morris Family - so she won't be discussed here. 

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For family history purposes, the following addresses are those closest in time to and most likely to yield hits in the 1940 U.S. Census.  1940 Enumeration Districts are indicated in blue.

Abraham & (Rebecca Myers) Sotskess

 1940 236 W. 10th Street, NY, NY [1]               31-48  

                                                or 31-49

 1942 102 Christopher Street, NY, NY [2]           31-50

(Louis) & Yetta G. Myers

 1938 1605 Walton Avenue, Bronx, NY [3]            3-132A

Joseph & Rose Myers

 1942 212 East 39th Street, NY, NY [4]             31-1041

Harry & Mollie Myers

 1942 578 Williams Avenue, Brooklyn, NY [5]        24-85

Israel & Eva Myers

 1940 1820 Morris Avenue, Bronx, NY [6]            3-127B 

                                                or 3-1497

Jacob & Bertha Myers

1942 636 Dahill Road, Brooklyn, NY [7]             24-2546B

Notes

1. New York, New York, Certificate and Record of Death no. 2120 (24 January 1940), Rebecca Sotskess, New York City Municipal Archives, New York.

2. "U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 April 2012), Abraham Sotskess, card no. U1124, New York, NY.

3. Bronx County, New York, Certificate and Record of Death no. 9710 (8 November 1938), Louis Myers, New York City Municipal Archives, New York.

4. "U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," digital images, Ancestry.com,  Joseph Myers, card no. U2235, New York, NY.

5. "U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," digital images, Ancestry.com, Harry Myers, card no. U3362, Brooklyn, NY.

6. Bronx County, New York, Certificate and Record of Death no. 4981 (20 May 1940), Israel Myers, New York City Municipal Archives, New York.

7. "U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," digital images, Ancestry.com, Jacob Myers, no. U253, Brooklyn, NY.

 

1940 U.S. Census: Seeking the Morris Family

Isidore Morris had been a glazier in New York City and, like many glaziers of the time, suffered a variety of maladies that may have been associated with his profession. Sometime after the 1930 U.S. Census Isidore and Sarah Myers Morris (my great grandparents) moved to a small farm in Perrineville, Monmouth County, New Jersey.  

They'd followed their eldest son, Max Morris, who had married and become a glazier in Red Bank, Monmouth County, NJ. Perrineville had grown into a hotbed of Eastern European Farmers.[1] For Isidore and Sarah this was a respite from their adult lifetimes in the New York City tenements. They had a small farm and farm house.  My father used to talk about milking his grandparents' cow when he went to visit - something quite unusual for a boy from Brooklyn. I have not found any records yet for my great grandparents' farm, but I do know its address courtesy of my cousin Hal Blatt.

Sometime before 1947 when Isidore passed away, he and his wife moved back to the City and to the Bronx.

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The numbers in blue, below, are the 1940 U.S. Census Enumeration Districts for the addresses shown. When I am able to get online and check the 940 U.S. Census records (I hope it will be tomorrow), I will select these Enumeration Districts and page through 30-40 pages per ED until I find my relatives. If I cannot find them, I will have to wait for an every name index to be created (that's why I'm volunteering to help the effort).

Isidore and Sarah Myers Morris

1930   239 E. 105th Street, New York, NY [2] 31-1603 A or B

>1930  842 Sweetman's Lane, Perrineville, NJ 13-119 or 13-120

1947   627 Manida Street, Bronx, NY [3]      3-406

 

Jean Morris and Al Zimmerman

1940   2069 E. 12th Street, Brooklyn, NY [4] 24-383

1942   145 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn, NY [5]    24-2487A

Max and Irene Morris 

1938   66 Pinckney, Red Bank, New Jersey [6] 13-155

1945   92 McLaren, Red Bank, NJ [7]          13-145 or 13-146

Murray and Pauline Morris

1937   2422 Benedict Avenue, Bronx, NY [8]   3-898

Esther Morris Blatt

1940   762 Brady Avenue, Bronx, NY [4]       3-840B

Notes

1. "Monmouth County," Jewish Virtual Library (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org : 

accessed 31 March 2012).

2. 1930 U.S. Census, New York County, New York, population schedule, New York City, 
Enumeration District (ED) 31-816, sheet 4B, dwelling 18, family 92, Isidore Morris; digital 
image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 April 2012), citing National 
Archives microfilm publication T626.
3. Bronx County, New York, Certificate and Record of Death no. 12512 (22 December 1947), 
 Isidore Morris, New York City Municipal Archives, New York.
4. Jeannette Zimmerman Petition for Naturalization No. 274072 (8 January 1940), 
Eastern District of New York, Volume 982; Records of the District Courts of the United 
States, National Archives and Records Administration.
5. "U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," digital images, Ancestry.com, card 
Albert Zimmerman, no. U3139, Brooklyn, NY.
6. R.L. Polk & Co.'s 1938 Red Bank City Directory, (New York City, NY: R.L. Polk & Co., 
Inc., 1938), 127, entry for "Morris, Max"; digital image, Ancestry.com 
(http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 April 2012).
7. R.L. Polk & Co.'s 1945-46 Red Bank City Directory, (New York City, NY: R.L. Polk & 
Co., Inc., 1945), 279, entry for "Morris, Max"; digital image, Ancestry.com 
(http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 April 2012).
8. "Petition for Naturalization of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1897-1944," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 April 2012), Petition for Naturalization No. 286624, Esther Blatt, 12 January 1937; citing National Archives and records Administration microfilm publication M1972.