Leie (Jaffé) Pulvermacher (abt. 1798)

Born about 1798 in Gnesen, Gnesen, Posen, Prussia, German Empire

Ancestors

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Gniezno, Gniezno, Greater Poland, Poland

Biography

Leie Jaffé was born about 1798 to Samuel Jaffé and his unknown wife in the town of Gniezno (German: Gnesen). Gniezno is a town 30 miles east of Poznan in Poland. Today, Gniezno, Gniezno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.^[1] J. E. Jaffé reports that Leie married twice, the first time she married Unknown Prockownik and the second time she married Unknown Pulvermacher. See Research Note 1. It is also reported that she had children with both of her husbands, the details have not been recorded. She is noted to have lived in towns of Peysern and Zerkow, both in Poland.

Research Notes

Research Note 1. Are both of Leie's husbands brothers? Not long after publishing this profile I was contacted by a German woman asking if I had additional information concerning Leie's husbands. She explained that her family tree had both Prockowniks (Prochowiecs) and Pulvermachers and did I know that former was Polish for Powdermaker and that the later was German for Powdermaker, and could Leie's husbands been brothers? A simpler explanation would be that Leie had a single husband and during one of the Germanisation periods they changed their name from Prockownik to Pulvermacher.

Sources

1. ↑ Johanna Eva Jaffé, "Miłosław Jaffé Tree - 1985 Version," Nov. 1985; Jaffé Family, Posen Collection; AR 4037; box 1; folder 34; page 2, 7; Leo Baeck Institute (https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/resources/18457 : 1 Mar 2023), image 11, 21 of 129.

Also see:

• Guide to the Papers of the Jaffé Family of Posen 1832-1986; AR 4037; Processed by Dianne Ritchey and Eva Englander, Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, N.Y. 10011, Phone: (212) 744-6400, Fax: (212) 988-1305, Email: http://www.lbi.org/ask, URL:http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=480067.

A Note Concerning Sources: I have two sources for the Jaffé's originating in Miłosław, Poland. The first is a collection of documents^[1] housed in the Leo Baeck Institute's Center for Jewish History. This collection represents the life's work of Johanna Eva "Hanni" Jaffé, my third cousin twice removed. The second is an unsourced family tree handed down to Charlie Jaffé by his grandmother Hedwig Jaffé, 1964.^[2] "Hanni" Jaffé did not discover my branch of the family until the 1980's (see the correspondence with Ilse Goldschmidt (Box: 1, Folder: 8). In one letter (images 11,12) she tells Ilse (a cousin of my father's) that she had attempted to contact me without success. From this I have concluded that the notes left to me by my grandmother in the 1960's must have a different origin from the work of Johanna Eva Jaffé. I will only cite Hedwig Jaffé's work if there is a discrepancy between the two sources or when Hedwig Jaffé's notes provide additional information .

1. Johanna Eva Jaffé, "Miłosław Jaffé Tree - 1985 Version," Nov. 1985; Jaffe Family, Posen Collection; AR 4037; Leo Baeck Institute (https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/resources/18457 : 1 Mar 2023).
2. Unsourced family tree handed down to Charlie Jaffé by his grandmother Hedwig Jaffé, 1964.