# Ayzyk Kłodnicki (b.1720) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **7x great-grandfather** **Born** ~1720 **Died** aft 1772 **Children** [[Zlota (b.1742)]] *GEDCOM I514908 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Ayzyk Kłodnicki lived in [[Bełżyce]], the small private town southwest of Lublin, and appears in the town's annual rent ledgers — the *regestr czynszu należącego z miasta Bełżyc od Żydów*, the record of the ground-rent (*czynsz*) owed by the town's Jews to the manorial treasury — for a full unbroken decade, from 1763 through 1772.[^1763] Each year the clerk set down his name near the foot of the Jewish list and, in the column beside it, the sum he owed: **13 złotych**, year after year without change.[^assessment] Among the town's Jewish householders that was a substantial assessment — most of his neighbours were entered at 3, 6, or 12 złotych — and it placed him among the more heavily rated men of the community.[^1763] The surname the ledgers hang on him was not a family name at all but the name of what he leased. He is styled *arędarz* — an *arendarz*, a lessee — and the tag "Kłodnicki" marks him as the holder of the **Kłodnica** *arenda*, a leasehold in the country outside the town.[^klodnica] The 1768 roll makes this plain by naming a second man the same way: "Mosiek Szmoylowicz **Arędarz Kłodnicki**," a distinct lessee of the same concession, so that "Kłodnicki" is read as an occupational-territorial byname — *the one who holds Kłodnica* — rather than an inherited surname.[^1768] What exactly the Kłodnica lease comprised — a tavern, a mill, a toll, or the general farm of that estate's revenues — the rent rolls do not spell out; but a Jewish *arendarz* of the period typically ran the propination (the lord's liquor monopoly) and the associated inn, collecting the estate's dues and paying the lord a fixed annual rent in return.[^arendarz] The clerk's ear, not any fixed spelling, governed how the name was written from year to year: "Ayzyk Klodnicki Arędarz" in 1766, "Eyzyk Arędarz Klodnic" and "Ayzyk Arędarz Klodnicki" across 1766–1767, and by 1769–1772 simply "Ayzyk Kłodnicki."[^1766][^1767] Through all of it the man and his 13-złoty assessment are the same, planted among the same recurring neighbours — the Mędlowicz family (Lewek Mędlowicz "Babiński," rated a high 20 złotych), Mosiek Szmoylowicz, the widow "Habusiowa," Mosiek Wiewiorka, the Ponczosznik (stocking-maker) households, and the town's krawcy (tailors), rzeźnicy (butchers), and czapnicy (cap-makers).[^1763][^cohort] The ledgers also catch a marriage forming inside his household. In the 1769 roll Ayzyk stands alone.[^1769] From **1770** onward a new line appears directly beneath his: **"Ozer [Oscer], zięć jego"** — Ozer, his son-in-law — rated at just 1 złoty 15 groszy, the small sum of a dependent household newly set up.[^1770] The same pairing recurs in 1771, and in the **1772** register the son-in-law is entered among the *komornicy* — the lodgers, those living under another man's roof without a hearth of their own — as **"Ozer, zięć Ayzyka."**[^1771][^1772] That son-in-law is [[Uszer Winer (b.1740)]], who had married Ayzyk's daughter [[Zlota (b.1742)]], born about 1742; his absence in 1769 and his appearance under Ayzyk's name from 1770 date the wedding to the interval **1769–1770**, and his placement among the komornicy shows the young couple living within the father-in-law's household.[^winer] For those years the older lessee and the younger man who had married in are taxed one line apart in the same book. Born about 1720 and still named in the 1772 roll, Ayzyk lived out the last decades of the independent Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in this corner of the Lublin palatinate — Bełżyce a private town, its Jewish community holding its leaseholds and paying its rents to a manorial lord. The rent rolls give his standing, his trade, and his son-in-law; the name of his wife, and of any children besides Zlota, they do not record. [^1763]: 1763 Bełżyce rent ledger, headed *"Wybor Czynszu z Miasta Bełżyc od Żydów należącego Za Rok 1763,"* listing the town's Jewish householders and the ground-rent owed by each; Ayzyk is entered as **"Ayzyk Klodnicki Arędarz — 13"** (złotych): [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/2bf3d4e8d7b433f194dc222713bcb263594da6292fad9b09251b92842a9ce41d). [^assessment]: Ayzyk's assessment holds steady at **13 złotych** across every surviving year — 1763, 1764, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771 — read directly from each year's scan (footnotes below). Only in the 1772 continuation-page scan on this profile does his own line fall on a preceding leaf; the son-in-law's line ("Ozer, zięć Ayzyka — 1 zł 15 gr") is what appears there. [^klodnica]: **Kłodnica** — a locality near Bełżyce in the Lublin region; the *arenda* (leasehold) of its estate revenues is what the byname "Kłodnicki" ("of Kłodnica") denotes. Ayzyk is thus *arendarz* (lessee) of Kłodnica, not a bearer of a fixed family surname — surname-fixing among the region's Jews came only ~1821. [^1768]: 1768 Bełżyce rent register: Ayzyk entered as **"Ayzyk Kłodnicki — 13."** The same page carries a second lessee, **"Mosiek Szmoylowicz Arędarz Kłodnicki — 12,"** confirming "Kłodnicki" as the name of the shared Kłodnica leasehold rather than a family surname; also present are Josyf Mędlowicz (12), Mędel Targownik, Manas "z Herszkowego" (6), and Perec Szlomy Szwagier: [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/1f25a0c625578d681d59d48fa6dc18aefe28ecc3043fa438eaf0be98864797e9). [^arendarz]: *Arędarz* (arendarz) — a Jewish lessee holding a leasehold (*arenda*) from a town or estate owner. In the Polish–Lithuanian countryside such lessees most often ran the lord's propination (liquor) monopoly and its tavern, together with the collection of defined estate revenues, in exchange for a fixed annual rent. General context for the *arenda* system; the specific composition of Ayzyk's Kłodnica lease is not stated in the rent rolls. [^1766]: 1766 Bełżyce rent ledger, *"Wybor Czynszu z Miasta Bełżyc od Żydów... za Rok 1766"*: Ayzyk entered (faint ink) as **"Ayzyk Arędarz Klodni[cki] — 13"**; neighbours include Lewek Mędlowicz (20) and Mosiek Szmoylowicz (12): [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/f0a73e2c678aade49c684a81d1e092bdaed4f232fc1cc31e82ea5081b22e4f88). [^1767]: 1767 Bełżyce rent ledger, *"Wybor Czynszu z Miasta od Żydów należącego Bełżyc za Rok 1767"* / *"Dalszy wybor..."*: Ayzyk entered as **"Ayzyk Arędarz Klodni[cki] — 13"** (the "Eyzyk Arędarz Klodnic" reading of the same year); on the same page Lewek Mędlowicz (20), Mosiek Szmoylowicz Arędarz Motycki (12), Mosiek Wiewiorka (24): [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/c4d9e8641bf0d8169d1fc1645ea2aa783a0ceb731d3abdbbe09a51e8e959346c). (The 1764 and 1765 entries give **"Ayzyk Kłodnicki Arędarz — 13"** likewise: 1764 [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/2365c71ae1ffe67a8f9e862880fbe2a6df0a2e50456d61d8f45732079b2ae880), 1765 [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/b5685febbaf8a07317a8dd293228e8d1e870e48d0d04cd81b3404ac047974ae8).) [^cohort]: The recurring Jewish cohort of Bełżyce read across the 1763–1772 rolls includes Lewek Mędlowicz "Babiński" (rated 20), Mosiek Szmoylowicz, Mosiek Wiewiorka (24), the widow "Habusiowa" (24), Dawid Nidomowicz, Sender/Szender Ponczosznik and other Ponczosznik (stocking-maker) households, and numerous krawcy, rzeźnicy, and czapnicy — the trade-bynames (tailor, butcher, cap-maker) by which most were entered. [^1769]: 1769 Bełżyce rent register, *"Regestr Czynszu wybranego za Rok 1769 z miasta Bełżyc od Żydów":* Ayzyk entered as **"Ayzyk Kłodnicki — 13,"** standing alone with no son-in-law beside him: [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/caa4b2e44fcebfae131beb1700568d11e9283ff47bcb8faed5275bdb41914076). [^1770]: 1770 Bełżyce rent ledger, *"Dalszy wybor Czynszu od Żydów za Rok 1770":* **"Ayzyk Kłodnicki — 13,"** and on the line directly below, for the first time, **"Oscer zięć jego — 1 zł 15 gr"** (Oscer, his son-in-law): [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/7ac968f1ab347fb856d3755a04a6db91317711c89358ee30df31527a618809d1). [^1771]: 1771 Bełżyce rent register, *"Regestr... Czynszu należącego z Miasta... 1771, a naprzod od Żydów":* **"Ayzyk Kłodnicki — 13"** with **"Ozier zięć jego — 1 zł 15 gr"** immediately below: [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/5a5c84033436735b53dbab1847b14bdcd9f5b4b088d0a5ada488aab2875996a5). [^1772]: 1772 Bełżyce register (continuation page), *"Dalszy wybor Czynszu od Żydów"* with a subsection headed **"Komornicy"** (lodgers): the son-in-law is entered there as **"Ozer zięć Ayzyka — 1 zł 15 gr,"** placing him among those living in another's household: [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/bc5f2552e52cb4d46052f2ac17e9a069fa7aa368a8b480b3afb2a769af038bd6). The son-in-law is [[Uszer Winer (b.1740)]] (identification per the MyHeritage biography on his profile). [^winer]: [[Uszer Winer (b.1740)]] is entered below his father-in-law Ayzyk in the Bełżyce rent ledgers from 1770 through 1772 (as "Oscer/Ozier/Ozer zięć jego / zięć Ayzyka," 1 zł 15 gr) but is absent in 1769, dating his marriage to Ayzyk's daughter [[Zlota (b.1742)]] to ~1769–1770; his 1772 placement among the *komornicy* shows the couple living within Ayzyk's household. Read from the 1770 ([scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/7ac968f1ab347fb856d3755a04a6db91317711c89358ee30df31527a618809d1)), 1771 ([scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/5a5c84033436735b53dbab1847b14bdcd9f5b4b088d0a5ada488aab2875996a5)), and 1772 ([scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/bc5f2552e52cb4d46052f2ac17e9a069fa7aa368a8b480b3afb2a769af038bd6)) ledgers. ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* **Bełżyce ground-rent ledgers, 1763–1772 (deep-read 2026-07-06).** The Bełżyce manorial rent registers (*regestr / wybor czynszu z miasta Bełżyc od Żydów należącego*) record the annual *czynsz* owed to the estate treasury by each Jewish householder. Ayzyk Kłodnicki is entered in every surviving year of the run, always assessed at **13 złotych** — a high rating relative to the community's common 3/6/12 zł entries. Year-by-year, read from the scans: | Year | Name as written | Sum | Scan | |---|---|---|---| | 1763 | Ayzyk Klodnicki Arędarz | 13 zł | [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/2bf3d4e8d7b433f194dc222713bcb263594da6292fad9b09251b92842a9ce41d) | | 1764 | Ayzyk Kłodnicki Arędarz | 13 zł | [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/2365c71ae1ffe67a8f9e862880fbe2a6df0a2e50456d61d8f45732079b2ae880) | | 1765 | Ayzyk Kłodnicki Arędarz | 13 zł | [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/b5685febbaf8a07317a8dd293228e8d1e870e48d0d04cd81b3404ac047974ae8) | | 1766 | Ayzyk Arędarz Klodni[cki] | 13 zł | [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/f0a73e2c678aade49c684a81d1e092bdaed4f232fc1cc31e82ea5081b22e4f88) | | 1767 | Ayzyk Arędarz Klodni[cki] ("Eyzyk Arędarz Klodnic") | 13 zł | [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/c4d9e8641bf0d8169d1fc1645ea2aa783a0ceb731d3abdbbe09a51e8e959346c) | | 1768 | Ayzyk Kłodnicki | 13 zł | [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/1f25a0c625578d681d59d48fa6dc18aefe28ecc3043fa438eaf0be98864797e9) | | 1769 | Ayzyk Kłodnicki (alone, no son-in-law) | 13 zł | [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/caa4b2e44fcebfae131beb1700568d11e9283ff47bcb8faed5275bdb41914076) | | 1770 | Ayzyk Kłodnicki + "Oscer zięć jego — 1 zł 15 gr" below | 13 zł | [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/7ac968f1ab347fb856d3755a04a6db91317711c89358ee30df31527a618809d1) | | 1771 | Ayzyk Kłodnicki + "Ozier zięć jego — 1 zł 15 gr" below | 13 zł | [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/5a5c84033436735b53dbab1847b14bdcd9f5b4b088d0a5ada488aab2875996a5) | | 1772 | (his own line on a preceding leaf) "Ozer zięć Ayzyka — 1 zł 15 gr" under *Komornicy* | — | [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/bc5f2552e52cb4d46052f2ac17e9a069fa7aa368a8b480b3afb2a769af038bd6) | - **"Kłodnicki" = the Kłodnica leasehold, not a surname.** The 1768 register names a *second* lessee the same way — **"Mosiek Szmoylowicz Arędarz Kłodnicki — 12"** — which shows that "Kłodnicki" denotes the *arenda* of Kłodnica (a locality near Bełżyce), held by more than one man, rather than an inherited family name. Ayzyk is therefore the *arendarz* (lessee) of Kłodnica. (In the same era a "Mosiek Szmoylowicz Arędarz **Motycki**" also appears — the Motycz leasehold — the two Szmoylowicz arenda-bynames should not be conflated.) - **Marriage of daughter [[Zlota (b.1742)]] to [[Uszer Winer (b.1740)]], ~1769–1770.** Uszer ("Oscer/Ozier/Ozer, zięć [son-in-law]") is absent from the 1769 roll and appears directly beneath Ayzyk from 1770, at the small dependent sum of 1 zł 15 gr; in 1772 he is placed among the *komornicy* (lodgers living in another's household). This dates the wedding to 1769–1770 and shows the couple living in Ayzyk's house. - **Recurring Bełżyce Jewish cohort** across the run (for future cross-matching): Lewek Mędlowicz "Babiński" (20 zł), Josyf Mędlowicz, Mosiek Mędlowicz, Mosiek Szmoylowicz (Kłodnicki / Motycki arendas), Mosiek Wiewiorka (24), the widow "Habusiowa" (24), Dawid Nidomowicz, Sender/Szender Ponczosznik, Manas "z Herszkowego / na Herszkowym," Perec Szlomy Szwagier, plus many krawcy, rzeźnicy, and czapnicy. The **Mędlowicz** family here is worth watching against the vault's [[Ichiel Michel Hochberger (b.1739)]] ("Michel Mędlowicz") lead. ## Evidence ## Open questions - **Wife and other children unidentified.** The son-in-law is confirmed as [[Uszer Winer (b.1740)]], husband of Ayzyk's daughter [[Zlota (b.1742)]] (~1769–1770). But Ayzyk's own wife is unnamed in the rent rolls, and no children beyond Zlota are documented. Watch any Bełżyce kahał or vital records for his spouse and further offspring. - **Ayzyk's own parentage.** The rent rolls give his trade (arendarz of Kłodnica) and standing but never his father's name. A patronymic form of his name in a kahał/notarial record would be needed to reach a generation back. - **What the Kłodnica lease comprised.** He is *arędarz* of Kłodnica, but the czynsz rolls do not itemize the lease (tavern/propination, mill, toll, or general estate farm). Estate inventories or lease contracts (*kontrakty arendowne*) for Kłodnica, if they survive, would specify it. - **Death date.** Recorded only as "aft 1772" (last ledger appearance). A later Bełżyce rent register, a burial record, or the year his 13-zł line drops from the rolls could tighten this.