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The Jewish-Baltic family Keilmann of Riga/Livland

Updated October 22, 2001

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The first Keilmann, named Elias ben Abraham Kejlman was born ca. 1742 in Courland ore in Lithuania and died 1825 in Schlock. He had two sons: Feibus ben Elias ( b. 1773 in Schlock, d. 1826 in Schlock ) and Noa ben Elias ( b. 1781 in Schlock, d. 1829 in Schlock ). Feibus/Phoibus Elias Keilmann was married to Blume bat Ezechiel ( born 1782, died ? ). He was the Shtadlan and a Kahalsman of the Jewish community of Schlock/Sloca. Their children were:
Marcus ben Feibus Keilmann ( b. 1797 in Schlock, d. January 10, 1875 in Riga). Isaak/Itzig ben Feibus Keilmann ( b. 1800 in Schlock, d. ca. 1854/55 since his work as an Expeditor/carreer somewhere in Courland/Lithuania), Jette bat Feibus Keilmann ( b. 1805, died ? ) and Terze/Therese bat Feibus Keilmann ( b. 1810, married 1834, husband unkown, died ? ).
My great-great-great-grandfather Isaak ben Feibus Keilmann worked for the commercial house of the councillor alderman K.H. Meltzer as an Expeditor and Commis in Riga, Courland, Lithuania, Estonia and Pruzzia.He was married ( ca. 1820 in Schlock/Riga ) to Henriette/Jette Hinde Cohn ( b. 1808, d. January 1,1893 in Riga). Their children were: Rebeca ( b. 1822, died ? ), Phil- ipp/Phoibus ben Isaak ( b. April 27, 1827/29 in Riga, married I.: Dec.19,1855 to Henriette/Jette Hode bat Benjamin Joseph Kretschmann [ b. 1836 in Mitau, d. Dec. 30.,1884 in Riga ] ; II.: August 27,1887 in Riga to Hulde/Gulda bat Julius Hirsch from Stallopoenen/Pr. [ emigrated after 1906 with her little children Margi and Egon to Rostock/Germany ]; died April 18, 1903 in Riga ), Friederika ( born 1832, died ? ), Henrietta Wilhelmina/Minne Mindel ( b. May 3,1885 in Riga, married March 18, 1860 in Riga to the representative of the Main Association of Russian Railway Jakov ben David Kantorovich [ b. 1822/35 in Slonim/Belorussia, d. 1903 in St. Petersburg ], died 1914 in St. Petersburg), Alexandra/Shasche Sara ( b. 1840 in Riga, married Nov.27, 1864 in Riga to Nikolai/Elchone ben Aron Lissner, named Hirschfeld [ b. 1839, d. Febr.18,1893 in Riga]; son: Dipl. Chem. Victor Hirschfeld, b. Jan. 15.1868 in Riga, dies ?), Charlot- te/Slatte ( b. 1842 in Riga, married March 26.,1867 to the teacher Hermann ben Jakov Mendelsohn [born 1831 in Mitau, died ?], died ? ), Caro- line/Kreine (b. 1844 in Riga, married June 10, 1873 in Riga to Aron/Alexander ben Natal Hollender[ b. 1841 in Mitau, died ?], died ?; doughter: Bertha/Pen Zinneman, nee Hollender).My great-great-grandfather Philipp ben Isaak (von) Keilmann worked as a surgeon ( Dr. med. ) in Riga ( Moskauer Vorstadt, Reeperstr. 24 ). He was a councillor of state and knight.He worked also as an official for Jewish affairs under the gouverneur P. Bagration in Riga. His children: the dentist and honourable citizen Isidor/Isaak Sidor ben Philipp Keilmann (b. Sept.19,1856 Riga,married I.: April 6,1886 in Riga to the dentist Eugenia bat Jakov Kantorovich [b. Dec.3,1869 in Vilnius, killed Nov./Dec. 1941 ghetto of Riga; her sister Sophia Kantorovich and her brother Alexander Kantorovich were also born in Vilnius], II.:March 3,1919 in Riga Elise Dagmar Rolssenn. Isidor K. was killed on April 20,1942 in the ghetto of Riga; Hanna Olga (b. April 30,1858 in Riga, d. April 19,1919 in Riga),Lidia Lea (b. Sept.12,1860 in Riga,d. Jan. 7,1863 in Riga),Alexandra (b. Febr.11,1862 in Riga, d. August 8,1862 in Riga), the gynaecologist and unsalaried lecturer Dr.med. Alexander Keilmann (b. July 12,1863 in Riga, married April 5 1899 in Stettin to Luise Bertha Helene Gertrud Schultz from Silesia, d. Dec.24,1919 in Stettin/Pommern),Victoria Henriette (b. June 15,1866 in Riga, married April 5, 1891 to David ben Motel Isakowitz from Friedrichstadt; d. April 2,1893 in Riga).My grandfather, the son of Isidor K. was the paediatri- can Dr. med. Nikolai Alexander Keilmann ( b. July 11./24, 1896 in Riga, killed on March 30, 1942 in the KZ Stutthof/Gdansk. His sister was the sculptress Harriet Ellen von Rathlef-Keilmann (b Dec. 22.1886 in Riga, d. May 1, 1933 B

 
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