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Need some better thinkers than me!!! DENN of Korczyna

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Meyer Denn meyerdenn@yahoo.com

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Mar 13, 2018, 12:24:54 AM3/13/18
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Dear Fellow Genners:

I need some validation here, and I am hoping that some of you can help me out.
Here is the story:

My grandfather, Josef Juda DENN, was born in the town of Korczyna, in Poland
in 1894. His parents were Chaim DENN and Zisel KALB. Chaim Denn was born in
about 1850. His parents were Isroel Shimen DENN and Beila NEUMAN. They were
divorced shortly after my great grandfather's birth, so he was an only child,
and I got the impression that his father did not remarry. My grandfather
could tell me nothing more about his lineage.....he didn't remember any
grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins. He told me that there were no other
Denn relatives in Korczyna.

Today, I was going through all of the birth, marriage and death records in
Korczyna, and I came across a death record in Korczyna in 1888 for Reisel Denn,
age 75, daughter of Mechel and Gelle, and the wife of Leib Stara. I also found
in the death records that my great grandparents, Chaim and Zisel Denn, had two
children one named Mechel and another named Gelle (siblings of my grandfather)
who died in infancy in 1884 and 1890 respectively (prior to my grandfather's
birth). My grandfather would not likely have known about these children.

When I look at the numbers and the dates, here is what I come up with. If Chaim
was born in 1850, his father, Isroel Shimen could have been born around
1830. We don't know for certain the names of Isroel Shimen's parents, but if we
know that Reisel was 75 when she died in 1888, that would have placed her birth
at about 1813, making her about 17 or 18 at the time of Isroel Shimen's birth.
She could have been Israel Shimen's mother **or** his sister. Either way, Chaim
would have known her until the age of 88, which could explain why he named one
two of his children after her parents: one during her lifetime and one after
her death.

As mentioned above, Reisel's death record shows her name as Denn, but her
husband's name as Stara. Isroel Shimen carried the name Denn. If she was his
mother, this opens two possibilities: 1) her maiden name was Denn, and as was
customary at that time in Galicia, the government did not recognize the
marriage, so the children carried the mother's name; 2) Reisel's first husband
(Denn) died before her and she remarried a man named Stara.

How reliable is my assumption and can I go to the bank on it? Please ask
clarifying questions if I have not made myself clear.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks,

Meyer Denn, Dallas, TX
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