Maria (Ida) Rosendahl (dutch link) died 4 Apr 1820 in Waldenrath, Germany. Her death certificate lists her as 66 years old; her sons Bernard and Michel registered her death. She was the wife of Philip (Heyman) Lichtenstein, and my husband’s third great-grandmother. According to her death certificate, she was born in …
Jacob Cleve was baptised on 3 Apr 1711 in Westerlee, Groningen, second son and 4th child of Jan Jacobs (Cleve) (dutch link) and Antje Roelfs. He is my 6th great-granduncle, on my mother’s side. He probably did not live long; his father names later, with his third wife, two more sons …
Martha Mayer (dutch link) was born 2 Apr 1882 in Schifferstadt in the Pfalz, 8th child of Leopold Mayer and Henriette Julia Wolff. She is my husband’s grand-aunt on his mother’s side. As I realized that I had only secondary sources for her and her siblings’ birth dates, I spent the …
Today being Easter Sunday, I thought I would try to see whether any one in my database was actually born (or baptized) on Easter Sunday, April 1. Interesting enough, none of the Jewish ancestors was born on April 1. Easter fell on April 1st in the following years: 1714, 1725, 1736, 1804, 1866, 1877, 1888, 1923, 1934, 1945, …
