Tombstone Tuesday: Rebecca Maltman

Rivka Barshak, a native of Polonne, married Abrom Malzman of Labun in approximately 1895 in the Russian Empire.[1] After emigration in 1903, Abrom changed his name to Abraham Maltman.[2] Rivke became Rebecca Maltman when she arrived with the children in 1906.[3] 

MALTMAN

Rivka daughter of Benyamin

BELOVED GRANDMOTHER

REBECCA

OCT. 10, 1880

JAN. 6, 1968

Rebecca was the daughter of Benjamin Barshak of Polonne.[4] On his manifest in 1906, when Benjamin arrived in New York for the first time with his son-in-law Abrom Malzman, he identified his brother-in-law as Leib Feigenblatt.[4] The Maltman family has confirmed that Rivka's mother's maiden name had been Feigenblatt.

Rebecca and Abraham had two children: Dora (Dwoire) Maltman Goldstein (ca. 1899 - ?) and Irving (Israel or Srulek) Maltman (1902-19 December 1963). They lived at 210-212 Grand Street, New York New York for several years near Abraham's glass store. By 1920, they had moved to Brooklyn.

Rebecca became a widow in 1927. Her son Irving continued in the glass business and the family kept their store at 212 Grand Street, NY, NY.

Notes:
1. 1910 U.S. census, New York County, New York, population schedule, Manhattan, Enumeration District 790, sheet 21A, dwelling 25, family 429, Abraham Maltman; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 September 2008), citing National Archives microfilm publication T624, roll 1029.
2. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 11 April 2009), manifest, S.S. Moltke, Hamburg to New York, arriving 7 January 1903, list 5, line 26, Abrom Malzmann, citing National Archives microfilm publication T715, roll 317.
3. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 16 July 2009), manifest, S.S. Noordland, Antwerp to New York, arriving 9 April 1906, list A, line 2, Riwke Malzmann, citing National Archives microfilm publication T715, roll 689.
4. "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 11 April 2009), manifest, S.S. Moltke, Hamburg to New York, arriving 7 January 1903, list 5, line 27, Benjamin Barschak, citing National Archives microfilm publication T715, roll 317.