17 December 2015

Treasure Chest Thursday: Sam and Sarah Rogel advertisement, FLPBA 1949 anniversary publication

Sam Rogel was an immigrant from Polonne who became a member of the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association. Polonne is 10 miles NE of Labun (aka Lubin), today in Ukraine. He and his sister Chaye (on separate pages of the same ship's manifest) arrived in the United States in January 1911.[1] They were the children of Moische Rogol who stayed behind in Polonne and Rebecca.

Sam married Sarah Feldman on 26 February 1915.[2] While their marriage certificate indicates this was the first marriage for both, it appears that Sarah was married previously to Sam's elder brother, Abraham, who died in 1913.[3] Sam and Abram's mother's maiden name is written as Bych on Sam's marriage certificate and Bitz on Abram's.

Sarah arrived in the New York as Sure Fellhandler on 10 April1906.[4] She traveled with the wives of a couple of my relatives from Labun: Rivke Barshak Malzmann (Rebecca Maltman) and Jette Meyers (Yetta Myers). Sarah's parents names, as listed on her marriage certificates, were Benjamin and Sadie Feigenblatt. Feigenblatt is a surname known from the town of Labun. And Sarah is related to the Feldman (Felgendler) family of Polonne discussed in previous posts here and here.[5]

Like so many immigrants associated with Labun, Sam and his brother were both glaziers. Sam's store was at 207 E. 9th Street, NY, NY.[6]

Abraham and Sarah did not have any children (sounds sort of Biblical doesn't it!), but her marriage with Sam begat one child, Milton (1916-1980).[7] 

Sam and Sarah are buried in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plot in Montefiore Cemetery. Sam died in 1962; Sarah in 1978. 

Notes:
1. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 4 January 2015), manifest, S.S. Potsdam, Rotterdam to New York, arriving 10 January 1911, list 4 (handwritten), line 20, Schmiel Roger; citing NARA microfilm publication T715, roll 1617.  
"New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com, manifest, S.S. Potsdam, Rotterdam to New York, arriving 10 January 1911, list 3 (handwritten), line 27, Chaje Rogol. 
2. New York County, New York, marriage certificate no. 5140, Samuel Rogel and Sarah Feldman, 26 February 1915, Municipal Archives, New York City.
3. New York County, New York, marriage certificate no. 4666, Abram Rogell and Sarah Feldman, 28 February 1909, Municipal Archives, New York City.
New York County, New York, death certificate no. 5265, Abraham Rogol, 16 February 1913, Municipal Archives, New York City.
4. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 16 December 2015), manifest, S.S. Noordland, Antwerp to New York, arriving 10 April 1906, list A (handwritten), list 71 (stamped), line 7, Sure Fellhandler; citing NARA microfilm publication T715, roll 689. 
5. There is some confusion, however, that I have yet to decipher. Feldman family contacts have told me that her maiden name was, in fact, Barshak and that is the name shown on the Social Security Applications and Claims Index on Ancestry. I will have to order her actual Social Security Application (SS-5) in an effort to sort this out.
6. Trow's 1917 New York City Directory (New York: R.L. Polk & Co., 1917), p. 1656, entry for Saml Rogel; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 16 December 2015).
7. 1920 U.S. Census, Kings County, New York, population schedule, Brooklyn, enumeration district 298, sheet 2B, dwelling 19, family 33, Samuel and Sarah Rogel family; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 10 November 2010); NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 1168.
1930 U.S. Census, Kings County, New York, population schedule, Brooklyn, enumeration district 24-1193, sheet 23B, dwelling 100, family 741, Samuel and Sarah Rogel family; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 10 November 2010); NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1511.

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