Anna had an older sister, Betti. The last entry in the following image of 1878 birth records is a birth record for a child born out of wedlock:
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| Hőgyész, Tolna, Hungary, "Registers of Jewish births, marriages and deaths for Hőgyész (1842-1895)" Birth no. 935. Salomon Honevald. February 20, 1878; Family History Library microfilm #642928. |
The mother's name is Betti Honevald, of Hőgyész. The midwife was Regina Wimmer and the bris was 27 February.
The interesting thing about these birth records is that if a child died soon after its birth, the death date was recorded in the birth record. Salomon died on July 21, 1878.
I am able to confirm his death in this volume of 1878 death records on the same microfilm.
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| Hőgyész, Tolna, Hungary, "Registers of Jewish births, marriages and deaths for Hőgyész (1842-1895)" Death no. 495. Salomon Honevald. July 21, 1878; Family History Library microfilm #642928. |
Salomon died of Schwindsucht, which translates to Consumption. He was five months old, and was buried in Hőgyész cemetery.
Betti later went on to marry and have children, but there will always be a mystery as to who was the father of her firstborn son.
Realize that her husband may also have been the father of Salomon. My great-great grandparents got legally married when they were already grandparents themselves. But they'd been religiously married as teenagers. They only formalized it when they needed to be married for legal reasons. That "legitimized" their children who had to use their mother's maiden name as their last name growing up and were able to change to their father's last name when they themselves were in their 20s. But the parents always considered themselves fully married.
ReplyDeleteLara, yes I did wonder if her husband, whom she married soon after the death of Salomon, was the father, but I doubt there is any way to prove it.
DeleteThanks for sharing the interesting story in your family.