# Chysza Ajdla Goldberg (b.1844) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **3x great-grandmother** ![[I500186.jpg|220]] **Born** ~1844 — [[Ostrów Lubelski]] **Died** 06/28/1897 — [[Ćmiłów]] **Parents** [[Hersz Goldberg]] · [[Malka Szysz (d.1867)]] **Spouse** [[Chaim Barbanel (b.1840)]] **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)]] **📸 Media — from MyHeritage** ![[I500186_1.jpg|180]] *GEDCOM I500186 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Chysza Ajdla was a matriarch of the **Barbanel** family — the line of Ozzy's grandmother Gila Barbanel. She was born about 1844 in the town of **[[Ostrów Lubelski]]**, in the Lublin region, the daughter of **Hersz (Gerszko) Goldberg** and **Malka**.[^death] She married **[[Chaim Barbanel (b.1840)]]**, and the couple made their home not in a town but in the village of **[[Ćmiłów|Ćmielów]]**, near Głusk, where they raised a large family — ten children are recorded, among them [[Louis Barbanel (b.1863)]] (who would emigrate to Brooklyn), [[Josef Mordko Barbanel (b.1865)]], [[Nusyn Barbanel (b.1873)]] and [[Dawid Barbanel (b.1879)]]. She died at home in Ćmiłów on **28 June 1897**, at six in the evening, aged **fifty-three**.[^death] The death was registered the next morning in Głusk by two townsmen — a merchant and a young glazier — who named her plainly: "**Chysza Barbanel, née Goldberg, daughter of Gerszko and Malka Goldberg, born in the posad of Ostrów**," leaving her widowed husband, Chaim.[^death] Her maiden name is the one small puzzle she leaves. Most records — including her own death act — call her **Goldberg**; some of her children's birth records give **Goldwasser**; and in her eldest son Louis's death record in Brooklyn, her grandson set down her surname as **Cohen** — perhaps a memory that her father was a *kohen* rather than a true surname.[^names] [^death]: Death act no. 3, civil register of **Głusk**, dated 17/29 June 1897, read directly from the scan. Declarants **Lejzor Lajajl**, merchant, and **Moszek Josef Pizem**, glazier (*stekolshchik*), aged 25, both of Głusk, declared that on **16/28 June 1897 at 6 p.m.** died in the village of **Ćmiłów** the Jewess **Chysza Barbanel, née Goldberg**, aged **53**, born in the *posad* of **Ostrów** (Ostrów Lubelski), resident of Ćmiłów "with her husband," daughter of **Gerszko and Malka**, spouses Goldberg, leaving her widowed husband **Chaim Barbanel**. Registrar Ignacy Rachalski. Age 53 → birth c. 1844. (Record image "Chysza Barbanel death" on this profile.) [^names]: Her maiden surname is recorded variously: **Goldberg** (her 1897 death act and most records), **Goldwasser** (some of her children's birth records), and **Cohen** (in her son [[Louis Barbanel (b.1863)]]'s Brooklyn death record, as given by her grandson Jacob) — the last possibly reflecting that her father [[Hersz Goldberg]] was a *kohen*. Noted on the MyHeritage profile. ## Research - **Death, 1897, Głusk register (death act no. 3).** Read directly from the scan. **Chysza Barbanel née Goldberg**, aged **53**, born in **Ostrów** (Ostrów Lubelski), died **28 June 1897 at 6 p.m.** in the village of **Ćmiłów**; daughter of **Gerszko (Hersz) and Malka Goldberg**; left widowed husband **Chaim Barbanel**. Declarants Lejzor Lajajl (merchant) & Moszek Josef Pizem (glazier, 25); registrar Ignacy Rachalski. Age 53 → b. c. 1844. (Image I500186_1.) - **Parentage** confirmed by the death act: daughter of **Hersz (Gerszko) Goldberg** ([[Hersz Goldberg]]) and **Malka** ([[Malka Szysz (d.1867)]]). - **Maiden-name variants:** Goldberg (death act, most records) / Goldwasser (some children's births) / Cohen (grandson's record of Louis's Brooklyn death — possible *kohen* hint). - **Residence:** the village of **Ćmiłów** (near Głusk) — the Barbanel family lived rurally rather than in the town. - **Family:** husband [[Chaim Barbanel (b.1840)]]; ten children incl. [[Louis Barbanel (b.1863)]] (emigrated to Brooklyn) and [[Nusyn Barbanel (b.1873)]]. ## Evidence - **1897 death act (Głusk register, no. 3)** — Chysza Barbanel née Goldberg, aged 53, born Ostrów, died 28 June 1897 in Ćmiłów; daughter of Gerszko and Malka Goldberg; left her husband Chaim Barbanel a widower. Her own death record; fixes her death, approximate birth year, birthplace (Ostrów Lubelski), and parents. ![[I500186_1.jpg]] *Death act no. 3, Głusk civil register, 1897 — death of "Chysza Barbanel, née Goldberg," aged 53, born in Ostrów, in the village of Ćmiłów; daughter of Gerszko and Malka Goldberg, leaving her husband Chaim Barbanel.* ## Open questions - **Maiden name — Goldberg / Goldwasser / Cohen.** The three variants (and the possible *kohen* origin of "Cohen") remain unresolved; a marriage record for Chysza and Chaim, or an Ostrów Lubelski birth record, would settle her father's surname/status. - **Birth record.** No Ostrów Lubelski birth record (c. 1844) has been read here; it would confirm parents [[Hersz Goldberg]] & [[Malka Szysz (d.1867)]] and her exact birth year. - **Barbanel surname-adoption context.** The Barbanel name was adopted at Ostrów Lubelski c. 1820 (an active family brick wall); Chysza's Goldberg origin is a separate line marrying into it.