# Bajla Felyat (b.1800) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **5x great-grandmother** ![[I507523.jpg|220]] **Born** ~1800 **Died** 02/13/1846 — [[Podzamcze]] **Parents** [[Mendel Felyat (b.1765)]] · [[Sura (d.1852)]] **Spouse** [[Judka Frenk (b.1796)]] **Children** [[Herszek Frenk (b.1815)]] · [[Mirla Frenk (b.1819)]] · [[Dawid Frenk (b.1821)]] · [[Esterka Frenk (b.1826)]] **📸 Media — from MyHeritage** ![[I507523_1.jpg|180]] *GEDCOM I507523 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Bajla Felyat was born about 1800, a daughter of [[Mendel Felyat (b.1765)]] and [[Sura (d.1852)]] — a family that, her death record notes, had come from **Germany** and carried a German surname before settling in the Lublin region.[^origin] She married [[Judka Frenk (b.1796)]] and lived with him in the village of [[Podzamcze]], below the castle at [[Łęczna]]; she was the mother of his children — [[Herszek Frenk (b.1815)]], [[Mirla Frenk (b.1819)]], [[Dawid Frenk (b.1821)]] and [[Esterka Frenk (b.1826)]].[^family] She died young. The death act, drawn at Łęczna on 2/14 February 1846, records that "Bajla Frenk," resident of Podzamcze, aged forty-six, had died the previous morning at seven o'clock, "daughter of Mendel and Sora… who formerly had German surnames and did not come from Łęczna," leaving her widowed husband Judka Frenk.[^death] Her death was reported by two Łęczna men — Jankiel Icek Blusztejn, a grove-lessee of twenty-five, and the merchant Samson Goldsztejn, forty-six.[^death] [^origin]: Death record (below): her parents [[Mendel Felyat (b.1765)]] and [[Sura (d.1852)]] "formerly had German surnames and did not come from Łęczna" — the family's German origin. Born ~1800 (from the death act's age 46 in 1846). [^family]: Wife of [[Judka Frenk (b.1796)]]; mother of [[Herszek Frenk (b.1815)]], [[Mirla Frenk (b.1819)]], [[Dawid Frenk (b.1821)]] and [[Esterka Frenk (b.1826)]] (GEDCOM/MyHeritage). After her death Judka remarried ([[Dwojra Syma (b.1801)]], 1846). [^death]: Death record, Łęczna, akt No. 7, drawn 2/14 February 1846 (translation on the profile, family MyHeritage biography): "Bajla Frenk," of [[Podzamcze]], died 13 February 1846 at 7 a.m., aged 46, daughter of Mendel and Sora (formerly of German surname, not of Łęczna), leaving her widowed husband [[Judka Frenk (b.1796)]]. Reported by Jankiel Icek Blusztejn (grove-lessee, 25) and Samson Goldsztejn (merchant, 46). [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/04ec7771ac4189ded9e0eb329be2673381377773d61ed02dd50f3d0fed2aa7ad) (not yet read directly). Death-record image on the profile. ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* - **1846 death record (Łęczna akta 7) translated on the profile** — Bajla Frenk, of Podzamcze, aged 46 (→ b.~1800), daughter of Mendel & Sora Felyat (**German origin**), widowed husband Judka Frenk. This is the record fixing her age and the family's German roots. - **Disambiguation (noted in the biography):** an 1851 Tomaszów Lubelski death record (akta 113) for "Bajla Ruchla Frynk, née Firer, aged 70, daughter of Jozef and Fajga" is **not** this Bajla — a different woman, kept only as a "future reference" curiosity. [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/cae17f038d8298bf1ef9ae4dcf592d098eaf0010186c188193dd4378d5f3f625) ## Evidence ## Open questions - **Read the death-record scan (akta 7) directly** to confirm the German-surname wording and add to Evidence. [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/04ec7771ac4189ded9e0eb329be2673381377773d61ed02dd50f3d0fed2aa7ad) - **The family's original German surname** (before "Felyat") — recover it if the records give it.