As mentioned earlier, Mira Halperin Lefand Marienhoff was my great-great-great grandmother. She was born about 1848 to Yitzchok Halperin and had at least one sister, Risha (later Risha Rubenstein). Her parents were registered in Krasne in the Vilna District--what is modern-day Krasnoye, Belarus, northwest of Minsk. She first married Yehoshua-Zev Lefand and had at least 5 children:
- Pesha Riva (my great-great grandmother), born 1874
- Nechemia, born 1875
- Sara-Margolia, born 1876
- Mayer, born 1879
- Leib, born 1882
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| Leib Lefand Birth Record, Nezhin, 1882 |
As Yehoshua-Zev died in 1881, Leib would have been born after his father's death; Mira would have been a young widow with 5 children.
In 1883, Mira married a widower, Yitzchok Marienhoff. Yitzchok was 14 years older than Mira. He had at least two sons from a previous marriage:
- Michel Marienhoff's children's births are documented in the Nezhin records
- Binyamin/Benoit/Benedict Marienhoff, who later immigrated to Belgium
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| Marriage Record for Mira Halperin Lefand and Yitzchok Marienhoff, Nezhin, 1883 |
Yitzchok had moved a lot. He was registered and was born in Goldingen, which is currently Kuldiga, Latvia. Binyamin had been born in what is now Mokra Kalyhirka, Cherkasy, Ukraine. And he married Mira in Nezhin, Chernigov, Ukraine.
