# Chaim Barbanel (b.1840) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **3x great-grandfather** ![[I500184.jpg|220]] **Born** 1840 — [[Ostrów Lubelski]] **Died** 10/26/1914 · ul. Cyrulicza 385 — [[Lublin]] **Parents** [[Nusyn Barbanel (b.1798)]] · [[Rajzla Abramow (b.1802)]] **Spouse** [[Chysza Ajdla Goldberg (b.1844)]] **Children** [[Louis Barbanel (b.1863)]] · [[Josef Mordko Barbanel (b.1865)]] · [[Malka Elka Barbanel (b.1867)]] · [[Ruchla Barbanel (b.1869)]] · [[Judka Zindel Barbanel (b.1871)]] · [[Nusyn Barbanel (b.1873)]] · [[Matys Barbanel (b.1877)]] · [[Dawid Barbanel (b.1879)]] · [[Rajzla Barbanel (b.1882)]] · [[Judka Barbanel (b.1885)]] **Siblings** [[Majer Jankiel Barbanel (b.1822)]] · [[Josef Barbanel (b.1824)]] · [[Srul Icek Barbanel (b.1829)]] · [[Cyrla Barbanel (b.1835)]] · [[Judka Barbanel (b.1840)]] **📸 Media — from MyHeritage** ![[I500184_1.jpg|180]] ![[I500184_2.jpg|180]] ![[I500184_3.jpg|180]] ![[I500184_4.jpg|180]] *GEDCOM I500184 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative *bio: full · updated 2026-07-06* Chaim Dawid Barbanel was born in **1840** in the *posad* — the small chartered market town — of Ostrów Lubelski, Włodawa County, the son of [[Nusyn Barbanel (b.1798)]] and Rajzla, née Abramów.[^resident][^death] He belonged to the *mieszczańskie* estate, the class of enfranchised townsmen, and made his living as a **merchant** (*torgowiec*) in Ostrów — a trade that would still define him in his death record three-quarters of a century later.[^resident] He married **Gisia (Chysza Ajdla)**, and the couple raised a large family: at least ten children are attached to him in the family records, among them Louis (b.1863), Josef Mordko (b.1865), Malka Elka (b.1867), Ruchla (b.1869), Judka Zindel (b.1871), Nusyn (b.1873), Matys (b.1877), Dawid (b.1879), Rajzla (b.1882) and the youngest, Judko (b.1885). The fullest single view of him comes from the **1890 Book of Permanent Residents (*Księga Ludności Stałej*) of Ostrów Lubelski**, the standing register the imperial administration kept of every townsman's household. There, at house **№ 281**, Chaim-Dawid stands entered as head of household: a *torgowiec*, born 1840 in *posad* Ostrów, and — the register's telling detail — a **widower**, so that Gisia had died by the time the register was drawn.[^resident] His parents are set down in the register's own hand as **Nusyn and Rajzla (Rojza)**, an entry made in his lifetime and wholly independent of any later reconstruction of the family.[^resident] On the line beneath him sits his youngest son, **Judko** — named as the son of *Chaim-Dawid and Gisia née Goldberg*, born 18 April 1885, a bachelor still living "with his father" (*przy ojcu*); the boy's name is struck through in the register, the clerk's mark of a later departure or death.[^resident] The entry looks both backward and forward in time: it carries a cross-reference to the town's earlier residents' book — "old book, vol. VII, p. 120" — pointing back toward the household from which Chaim came, and its Notes column bears a later pencil annotation in Russian, **"Умеръ" (*died*)**, added against his line when word of his death reached Ostrów.[^resident] That death is recorded in Lublin, not Ostrów. Chaim Dawid Barbanel died in **Lublin on 25 October / 7 November 1914** at ten o'clock in the evening, in house **№ 385 on Cyrulnicza Street**, and the act was drawn up the following morning, 26 October / 8 November.[^death] Two men of Lublin came before the registrar to report it: **Icek Majer Horowicz**, a private teacher aged 41, and **Berek Tuchman**, a house-owner aged 51.[^death] The act names him a **widower and merchant, aged 74** — again placing his birth about 1840 — **a resident of the *posad* Ostrów in Włodawa County, son of Nusyn and Rajzla, the spouses Barbanel**.[^death] A townsman of Ostrów all his life, he had come to die in the provincial capital some forty kilometres to the south; whether in retirement, in trade, or in the care of a grown child, the record does not say. Between them, two records made a full generation apart — the residents' register kept in Ostrów in his own lifetime and the death act drawn in Lublin at its close — agree exactly on his parents: **Nusyn and Rajzla Barbanel**.[^resident][^death] That double, independent attestation is what fixes Chaim's father as [[Nusyn Barbanel (b.1798)]] and corrects an online-tree merge that had wrongly assigned him a father named "Hersh Leib."[^merge] Nusyn belongs to the generation that took the fixed Barbanel surname in Ostrów Lubelski around 1820, so Chaim's own papers stand as a load-bearing link in tracing the family back through the surname-adoption wall (see [[Barbanel — Josef's Father]]). ## Research - **1890 Ostrów Lubelski Book of Permanent Residents, house № 281** ([scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/241a6fee0f4f12f1d6855574d051f92ec6a596ed600362838213556e7b05a61b), Archiwum Państwowe w Lublinie, image p. 282) — deep-read from the full-res scan. **Line 1 (household head):** *Chaim-Dawid Barbanel*, male; parents **Nusyn and Rajzla (Rojza)**; born **1840** in *posad Ostrów*; marital status **widower**; estate *meszczańskie* (burgher); religion *Mojżeszowe* (Jewish); occupation **merchant** (*torgowiec*); prior residence "posad Ostrów, old book vol. VII, p. 120"; Notes column bears a later pencil note **"Умеръ" (died)**. **Line 2:** *Judko Barbanel* (name struck through), male; parents **Chaim-Dawid and Gisia née Goldberg**; born **18 April 1885** in posad Ostrów; **bachelor**; burgher; Jewish; means of support "with father" (*przy ojcu*). 🚩 **Brick-wall relevant:** independently confirms Chaim's parents as **Nusyn and Rajzla**, gives his estate (burgher) and occupation (merchant), and names his wife as **Gisia née Goldberg** (= [[Chysza Ajdla Goldberg (b.1844)]]) — establishing "Goldberg" as her maiden name in a Russian-era civil register. Son here is **[[Judka Barbanel (b.1885)]]** (b.1885), not the earlier Judka Zindel (b.1871). - **1914 Lublin death act (26 Oct / 8 Nov 1914)** — transcribed in the MyHeritage bio (no separate szukajwarchiwach scan linked). States: **Chaim Dawid Barbanel**, widower, merchant, **74 years old**, resident of posad Ostrów, Włodawa County, **son of Nusyn and Rajzla, the spouses Barbanel**; died in Lublin, house № 385, Cyrulnicza Street, at 10 pm on 25 Oct/7 Nov 1914; reported by Icek Majer Horowicz (private teacher, 41) and Berek Tuchman (house-owner, 51). 🚩 **Brick-wall relevant:** the authoritative source fixing father = [[Nusyn Barbanel (b.1798)]], mother = [[Rajzla Abramow (b.1802)]]; disproves the Geni "Hersh Leib" father. - 🚩 The Geni "father = **Hersh Leib Barbanel**" is a **false merge** — both the 1914 Lublin death act and the 1890 Ostrów residents' register state "son of **Nusyn and Rajzla**". Father = [[Nusyn Barbanel (b.1798)]]. See [[Barbanel — Josef's Father]]. ## Evidence - **1890 Ostrów Lubelski Book of Permanent Residents — house № 281.** Chaim Dawid Barbanel entered as household head: son of Nusyn and Rajzla, born 1840 in posad Ostrów, widower, burgher, Jewish, merchant; with his son Judko (b.18 Apr 1885, son of Chaim-Dawid and Gisia née Goldberg). Archiwum Państwowe w Lublinie; [exact-page scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/241a6fee0f4f12f1d6855574d051f92ec6a596ed600362838213556e7b05a61b). ![[Chaim Dawid Barbanel — Ostrow Book of Residents entry crop.jpg]] *Ostrów Lubelski Book of Permanent Residents, house № 281 (1890): Chaim-Dawid Barbanel (b.1840, son of Nusyn and Rojza, widower, merchant) and his son Judko (b.1885, son of Chaim-Dawid and Gisia née Goldberg).* ## Open questions - **Barbanel origin lead** — Chaim's records point one generation back to [[Nusyn Barbanel (b.1798)]] and [[Rajzla Abramow (b.1802)]], the surname-adoption generation (~1820, Ostrów Lubelski). The residents' register's cross-reference to the **earlier Book of Residents "vol. VII, p. 120"** may carry Nusyn's household forward and is worth pulling to extend the line back. Mother "Rajzla Abramow" — the patronymic form "Abramow(a)" suggests **daughter of an Abram**; unverified father-name lead for that branch. - The 1914 death act is only available as a bio transcription; the **original scan is not yet linked** — locate and capture it for the Evidence section. - Wife's maiden name recorded as **Goldberg** (given "Gisia"); the vault has her as [[Chysza Ajdla Goldberg (b.1844)]]. "Gisia" is a recorded variant/diminutive of Chysza — add to her profile's recorded-spellings if not already present. [^resident]: 1890 Ostrów Lubelski *Księga Ludności Stałej* (Book of Permanent Residents), house № 281 (image p. 282), Archiwum Państwowe w Lublinie — [exact-page scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/241a6fee0f4f12f1d6855574d051f92ec6a596ed600362838213556e7b05a61b). Line 1 (household head): *Chaim-Dawid Barbanel*, parents **Nusyn and Rajzla (Rojza)**, b. 1840 posad Ostrów, widower, burgher (*mieszczańskie*), Jewish (*Mojżeszowe*), occupation **merchant** (*torgowiec*); prior residence "posad Ostrów, old book vol. VII, p. 120"; Notes column later pencil note **"Умеръ" (died)**. Line 2: *Judko Barbanel* (name struck through), parents **Chaim-Dawid and Gisia née Goldberg**, b. 18 April 1885 posad Ostrów, bachelor, means of support "with father" (*przy ojcu*). [^death]: Lublin Jewish death act, drawn 26 October / 8 November 1914 (death 25 Oct / 7 Nov 1914 at 10 pm) — **Chaim Dawid Barbanel**, widower, merchant, aged 74, resident of *posad* Ostrów, Włodawa County, **son of Nusyn and Rajzla, the spouses Barbanel**; died Lublin, house № 385, Cyrulnicza Street; reported by Icek Majer Horowicz (private teacher, 41) and Berek Tuchman (house-owner, 51). Transcribed in the MyHeritage biography on this profile. [^merge]: Both the 1890 Ostrów residents' register (parents *Nusyn and Rajzla/Rojza*) and the 1914 Lublin death act (*son of Nusyn and Rajzla, the spouses Barbanel*) name the same parents; the online-tree "father = Hersh Leib Barbanel" is a false merge. Father = [[Nusyn Barbanel (b.1798)]], mother = [[Rajzla Abramow (b.1802)]]; see [[Barbanel — Josef's Father]].