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The 1819 Revision List

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NEW! COMPLETELY REORGANIZED IN CONTENT; NEW SIGNATURE PAGES INCLUDED!!
The 1819 Revision List is in the process of being reexamined in its entirety. The main listing has been reorganized to better reflect the ordered appearance in the Russian ledgers and to clearly indicate who is who in each household. The signature pages' unique look at the leadership of the Jewish community has been included in both facsimile and analysis. In Fall 2007 we created a new table examining those reported dead/missing/ runaway in the 1816 Revision List who may reappear in 1819 under the same and different surnames. This page gives an intimate look at the 200+ families who were added in this supplement to the list created just three years previously in the 1816 Revision List. Share your ideas on what else would naturally complement these pages and in what other directions we should explore.

The 1819 Revision List
contributed by the Lyakhovichi Research Group
Introduction by Deborah G. Glassman

The material referred to on these pages can be studied in the microfilm copies preserved in the Family History Library system. It's call number is FHL 2010470 . As you get copies of individual pages we invite you to share your findings referenced by specific images, with our research community!

Many of the new findings that we have made about the signatory page of this document appear in the left hand column of this page, but there are still new explorations of the main body of this document, to be made.

You will see on the 1816 Revision List's webpage, that we have done an analysis of individuals on that document to determine if they had also been on the 1784 Grand Duchy of Lithuania Census. Though we can not yet post the individual names appearing on the earlier census (due to publication restrictions we hope will soon be lifted), some valuable discoveries were made about the percentages of families who had been resident in Lyakhovichi before the Russian conquest of the region. A similar study of the 1819 Revision List may be possible.

Other lists could be derived from the Revision List on this page. By 1819 we may be getting closer to a real evaluation of those reported with ages under thirty. Older people would have entered the registration system with both conscious attempts to deceive and inadvertant mistakes, that could misreport ages by decades. Younger adults, by 1819, would have been in their third reporting for a Revision list and in those whose families were long-time Lyakhovichi residents, we could gather these ages to reconstruct a "birth list" for Lyakhovichi.

And finally, we hope to post the actual pages of this Revision List on our website. Though your skills at reading Russian handwriting may be non-existent, it still puts the actual material in front of you, before it has been digested for a table. Reading an inspiring article, written by Dr. Neville Lamdan on the website of the Jewish Family History organization, made me realize that the way in which patronymics are organized on these tables may disguise important facts. He studied a particular listing for a subject of interest to him, and recognized that the person had a double-patronymic, giving the name of both father and grandfather for the same person. That fact armed him to identify the family on the 1784 Grand Duchy of Lithuania Census. But a less perceptive person might have been misled because the tables often remove the patronymic ending and replace it with "father's name" which might show that same double patronymic, simply as a double name. So getting the facts "straight from the horse's mouth" becomes very important.

Late breaking report: November 2007. In the effort to create a patronymic index for the whole Lyakhovichi webpage, an interesting set of discoveries were made. The names of men described as "runaway" or "missing" in the 1816 Revision Lists, are not surprisingly often found in the 1819 Revision List of men "missed" in the earlier lists. But very unexpectedly, a huge percentage of those recorded as "dead," "died in 1813" or other such report that one would expect to be final, have a name and patronymic and age grouping that exactly corresponds to a single person in the 1819 Revision List. Each of the correspondents in the 1819 Revision List have not previously appeared in either 1811 or 1816 under the surname with which they are reported in 1819. In this period, between the first surname legislation in 1805 and the final mandate of surnames in 1840, surnames in Lyakhovichi seem to have been in flux . A side by side comparison of all the people who were reported as missing or dead between the 1811 Revision List and the 1816 tally, with those who appear in the 1819 Revision list, would be of value. Do we have a preliminary list of deaths or emigrants or do we have a series of people who shared a name and patronymic with others who were coincidentally reported missing in the same census and were accounted for in 1819? A list of the individuals in both Revision Lists, has just been created and is posted below the 1819 Revision List on this page.

The 1819 Revision List

The table below has had a column removed. There was a column headed "Comments" in which every one one of the people on the 1819 Revision List was noted as "missed." The fact that they were not enumerated in 1816 because they had been missed, is important, but since all of those listed were in the same condition, this table was amended. The table has been further changed in Winter 2008. There were very few notations of relationship to the head of household in this Revision, possibly because many of the households included in this Revision Supplement, were very small, often only a husband and wife. Women without patrynomics, reported on the facing page to the man, were presumed to be the wife of the man whose name was opposite. Notations about sisters and brothers are in the original. All of the other relationship notations in this listing are Not in the Original but are comments of either the webmaster or the translator. This is important, because misunderstandings of the original material can be cleared up by examination of the originals at the Family History Library. The table is organized by household number. Examination of the 1834 Revision List showed that families were examined in the same order in 1816 through 1834 and that some relationships and name changes could be determined from the order or recording. See our introduction page to the Imperial Russian Revision Lists. People indicated as "only person in household" or with only other minors present in 1819, are often included in other households in 1834, please see that material. Finally, we originally posted this Revision List with two side-by-side orderings, one by household and one alphabetical. The alphabetical listing has been reduced to just a name index to the main listing to reduce repetition. The main report is below and the Surname Index is in the left hand column.

The 1819 Revision List
All indices on this page are ©Deborah Glassman 2007 and may not be reproduced in whole or part without her written permission.

Ordered by Household Number

#

SURNAME

First Name

Father's name

Relation to Head

Age in 1819

1

REIFA

Leiba

Itska-Shoma

Only person listed

19

2

BERKOVICH

Izriel

Shimshel

Head

25

2

BERKOVICH

Itka

wife

28

3

ZAYETS

Benyomin

Itska

Head

19

3

ZAYETS

Ester

Itska

B. sister [Benyomin b Itska’s sister ]

11

3

ZAYETS

Itska-Leib

Itska

B. brother [Benyomin b Itska’s brother]

15

4

BURSHTEIN

Itska

Abram

Head

27

4

BURSHTEIN

Minya

Itska b Abram’s. wife

26

4

BURSHTEIN

Ester

Itska

[Itska b Abram’s dtr]

3

5

STOLYAR

Berko

Girsh

Head

25

5

STOLYAR

Riva

Wife of Berko b Girsh Stolyar

24

6

GREBLYA

Itska

Naftel

Head

30

6

GREBLYA

Zlota

Wife of Itska b Naftel Greblya

25

7

GAM

Govsey

Yosel-Berko

Head

22

7

GAM

Elka

Wife of Govsey b Yosel-Berko Gam

20

8

RIBNIK

Shaya

Khaim

Head

35

8

RIBNIK

Perla

Wife of Shaya b Khaim Ribnik

30

8

RIBNIK

Sora

Shaya

[dtr of Shaya b Khaim Ribnik]

9

9

FARBER

Leiba

Aran-Pinkhes

Head

35

9

FARBER

Mikhlya

Wife of Leiba b Aran Pinkhes Farber

28

10

KOTLYAR

Berko

Mesel

Only person listed

4

11

OGINSKY

Srol

Aran

Only person listed

13

12

BUSYOL

Yosel

Iyodel (Yudel?)

Head

40

12

BUSYOL

Beilya

Wife of Yosel b Iyodel Busyol

30

13

GOLANCHIK

Leiba

Aran

Head

37

13

GOLANCHIK

Ryva

Wife

31

13

GOLANCHIK

Basya-Dvora

Leiba

[dtr of Leiba b Aran Golanchik]

11

14

GAUZA

Shaya

Movsha

Only person listed

16

15

GAUZA

Yankel-Feivel

Geshel

Only person listed

12

16

ARONCHIK

Abram

Leiba

Only person listed

5

17

KURKHENTS

Elya

Movsha

Only person listed

10

18

ILINA

Movsha

Girsh

Only person listed

5

19

BERKOVICH

Sholom

Shimshel

Head

34

19

BERKOVICH

Fruma

wife

34

20

MALOVIDZKY

Yankel

Leiba-Iyosel

Only person listed

12

21

GOBSHTEIN

Ester

wife

13

21

GOBSHTEIN

Yosel

Berko

Head

12

22

GOBSHTEIN

Meyer

Berko

[son of Berko Gobshein] [brother of Head, Yosel b Berko age 12]

4

23

GOBSHTEIN

Yosel

Meyer

Head

24

23

GOBSHTEIN

Asna

wife

23

24

MUKASEY

Fala

Itsko

Head

40

24

MUKASEY

Dobares

Wife of Fala b Itsko Mukasey

38

25

MUKASEY

Sroel

Zymel-Abram

Head

18

25

MUKASEY

Relya

wife

20

27

VINGER

Shakhna

Leizer-Yosel

Relationship not given

18

26

VINGERT

Movsha-Khaim

Girsh

Relationship not given

12

27

VINGER

Chakhna

Relationship not given. Not clear to webmaster if man or woman (the name would seem to be Shakhna, a man’s name but most males had patronymics)

?

28

BUSYOL

Abram

Ovzer

Head

22

28

BUSYOL

Khisya

Wife

21

29

BERKOVICH

Khaim

Movsha

Head

21

29

BERKOVICH

Keilya

Wife

18

30

GAUZA

Gesel

Yankel

Head

30

30

GAUZA

Sora

Wife

30

31

MUKASEY

Todris

Itska

Head

60

31

MUKASEY

Shifra

Wife

58

32

SLUCHAK

Nikhema

Abram-Yusel

Head

50

32

SLUCHAK

Soslya

Wife

40

33

SLUCHAK

Nisen

Abram

[brother of Nikhema b Abram Yusel]

30

33

SLUCHAK

Lotsiya

[wife of Nisen b Abram]

24

32

SLUCHAK

Malka

Nikhema

[dtr of Nikhema b Abram]

7

34

ARONCHY[K?]

Aron-Volf

Mikhel

[son of Mikhel Aronchyk]

10

35

MENAKER

Kushel

Mordukh

Head

33

35

MENAKER

Tsivya

wife

25

35

MENAKER

Khaya-Golda

Kushel

[dtr of Kushel b Mordukh Menaker]

7

36

BLYAKHAR

Abram

David

Head

18

36

BLYAKHAR

Khaika

wife

18

37

BUSEL

Ouzer

Yusel

Head

50

37

BUSEL

Temira

Wife

49

37

BUSEL

Abram

Ouzer

[son of Ouzer b Yusel Busel]

18

37

BUSEL

Ziska

Ouzer

[son of Ouzer b Yusel Busel]

16

37

BUSEL

Girt

Ouzer

[son of Ouzer b Yusel Busel]

8

38

BUSEL

Yosel

Ovzer

Head

25

38

BUSEL

Breina

[presumably wife of Yosel b Ovzer Busel]

34

38

BUSEL

Feiga

Yosel

[dtr of Yosel b Ovzer Busel]

3

39

BAES

Azik-Yosel

Mordukh

Head

50

39

BAES

Gana

[wife of Azik-Yosel b Mordukh]

45

39

BAES

Malka-Khaya

Aizik-Yosel

[dtr of Azik-Yosel b Mordukh]

13

40

BAES

Girsh

Khaim

Head

24

40

BAES

Sora-Leya

wife

23

41

LIPKES

Yankel

Khaim

Head

30

41

LIPKES

Sora-Malka

wife of Yankel

40

41

LIPKES

Zalman

Yankel

[son of Yankel b Khaim Lipkes]

15

41

LIPKES

Sheina

wife of Zalman

16

42

OGINSKY

Yankel

Zalman

Head

60

42

OGINSKY

Kaylya

Wife

60

43

OGINSKY

Movsha

Yankel

[son of Yankel b Zalman Oginsky]

18

43

OGINSKY

Dvora

[wife of Movsha b Yankel Oginsky]

18

44

OGINSKY

Gotlip

Berko

Head

17

44

OGINSKY

Dvora

wife

16

45

LISS

Orko

Tsalko

Head

20

45

LISS

Yenta

Wife

15

46

PANTOL

Dovid

Naftel

Head

46

46

PANTOL

Leya

Wife

45

47

PANTOL

Girsh

Naftel

Head

40

47

PANTOL

Gelya

Wife

38

47

PANTOL

Gelda

Girsh

[dtr of Girsh b Naftel Pantol]

18

48

LOES

Arya

Volf

Head

30

48

LOES

Feiga

Wife

28

49

DAVIDOVICH

Yosel

Itsko

Head

14

49

DAVIDOVICH

Sora

Wife

15

50

ODAKHOVSKY

Leizer

Zelik

Head

31

50

ODAKHOVSKY

Sora

Wife

36

50

ODAKHOVSKY

Feiga

Leizer

[dtr of Leizer b Zelik Odakhovsky]

14?

51

FINDEL

Borukh

Leizer

head

19

51

FINDEL

Maryasa

wife

18

52

FINDEL

Gershon

Leizer

head

30

52

FINDEL

Liba

wife

24

53

LOSEL

Leiba

Abram

head

40

53

LOSEL

Gellya

wife

35

54

FALEVICH

Zelik

Abram

head

24

54

FALEVICH

Yenta

wife

22

55

GRINBARKH

Mordukh

Kalman

head

64

55

GRINBARKH

Ginda

wife

56

56

GRINBARKH

Abram

Mordukh

[son of Mordukh b Kalman]

25

56

GRINBARKH

Freida

[wife of Abram b Mordukh son of Mordukh b Kalman Grinbarkh]

25

57

KHAEL

Azik

Beneyamin

Head

40

57

KHAEL

Khaya

wife

25

58

GULICH

Dovid

Leiba

Head

50

58

GULICH

Sosnya(?)

D.wife [Dovid b. Leiba Gulich’s wife]

40

58

GULICH

Feiga

Dovid

[dtr of Dovid b Leiba Gulich]

15

59

NEMEN

Leiba

Khaim

Head

60

59

NEMEN

Khana

L. Wife [wife of Leiba b Khaim Nemen]

50

59

NEMEN

Mordukh-Leizer

Leiba

[son of Leiba b Khaim Nemen]

20

59

NEMEN

Shifra

ML-wife [wife of Mordukh Leizer b Leiba Nemen]

24

60

GLEZER

Eliya

Volf

Head

40

60

GLEZER

Sora

Eliya

[dtr of Elya b Volf Glezer]

14

61

LOES

Shmoila

Ovsey

Head

45

61

LOES

Faya

[wife? Of Shmoila b Ovsey]

50

62

ZATZ

Aron

Idel

Head

40

62

ZATZ

Freida

wife

30

62

ZATZ

Khaya

Aron

[dtr of Aron b Idel Zatz]

8

63

MALOVIDZKY

Osher

Mordukh

Head

33

63

MALOVIDZKY

Ginda

wife

31

63

MALOVIDZKY

Reiza-Meita

Osher

dtr

5

64

ZATZ

Yankel

Idel

head

30

64

ZATZ

Rysya

wife

30

64

ZATZ

Fruma

Yankel

dtr

10

65

BREZA

Mordukh

Leiba

head

24

65

BREZA

Sora

wife

20

66

GIZ

Movsha-Nokhim

Leiba

head

54

66

GIZ

Rasya

wife

50

67

LISS

Shapsa

Khaim

head

18

67

LISS

Khaya

wife

16

68

LISS

Mordukh

Yudel

head

24

68

LISS

Fruma

wife

24

68

LISS

Midlya

Mordukh

[son of Mordukh b Yudel] [fthr was 13 at birth?

9

69

ZAYETS

Girsh-Yosel

Abram

Only person listed

14

70

VISHNYA

Movsha

Izreal

nly person listed

13

71

GELINA

Naftoli

Gedalya

Only person listed

9

72

YEBSHTEIN

Meyer

Ovsey

head

45

72

YEBSHTEIN

Khisaya

wife

44

73

KERBEN

Aron

Berko

head

30

73

KERBEN

Zlata

wife

30

74

ZHMOYDZYAK

Abram

Faley

head

24

74

ZHMOYDZYAK

Yesiya

wife

25

75

ABARANCHIK

Girsh

Nisen

head

40

75

ABARANCHIK

Khaika

wife

36

75

ABARANCHIK

Rakhusya

Girsh

[dtr of Girsh b Nisen Abaranchik]

8

76

LISS

Girsh-Gershon

Yosel

head

18

76

LISS

Malka

wife

18

76

LISS

Abram

Yosel

brother of GG [Girsh-Gershon b Yosel Liss]

11

77

GOUZA

Movsha

Izrael

Only person listed

13

78

KAPLAN

Rubin

Girsh

Head

24

78

KAPLAN

Beilya

wife

22

78

KAPLAN

Genda

[there is no notation in the webmaster’s copy of her father. Likely to be sibling or child of Rubin b Girsh Kaplan]

4

79

PURCHIK

Yankel

Abram

Head

33

79

PURCHIK

Bluma

wife

25

80

GAUZA

Movsha

Yosel

Only person listed

10

81

KHAIT

Nisen

father's name =Yon this person last designated with patronym "Iono" previously reported as father's name = "None"]

Head

65

81

KHAIT

Sora

Wife

58

82

KUSHNER

Dovid

Nosel

Head

43

82

KUSHNER

Khana

Wife

40

83

KERBEL

Aron

Yodel

Head

44

83

KERBEL

Ester

Wife

25

84

KHARLET

Yodel-Sroel

Itsko

Only person listed

17

85

BREVDA

Abram

Yosel

Head

14

85

BREVDA

Lulya

Wife

14

85

VALOVITS

Volf

Girsh

Only person listed

6

86

MALOVIDZKY

Lipman

Abram

Head

23

86

MALOVIDZKY

Leya

wife

20

87

SINOVKER

Dovid

Shevel-Yosel

Head

30

87

SINOVKER

Sora-Oda

Wife

23

88

KHARAS

Meyer

Khaim

Head

44

88

KHARAS

Ryva

Wife

30

88

KHARAS

Breina

Meyer

[dtr of Meyer b Khaim Kharas]

7

89

VATN

Efroim

Ovsey-Mordukh

Only person listed

13

90

GRUSHKA

Itsko

Sroel

Only person listed

11

91

KACHER

Lenko

Leizer

head

17

91

KACHER

Shifra

wife

19

92

MUS

Sroel-Berko

Girsh

head

24

92

MUS

Dynya

wife

20

93

VALOFINSKY

Menko

Yevel

head

23

93

VALOFINSKY

Margolya

wife

20

94

VALOKHVYANSKY

Itsko

Yevel

head

40

94

VALOKHVYANSKY

Sheina

wife

39

95

FAINSHTEIN

Itska-Yudel

Shmoilo

Only person listed

8

96

KAPLAN

Ezra

Berko

Only person listed

8

97

MUKASEY

Aron-Osher

Abel

Only person listed

16

98

MALOVIDZKY

Iser

Mikhel

head

24

98

MALOVIDZKY

Basya

wife

20

99

KHAET

Yosel

Borukh

No relationship given

14

99

LEV

Nevakh

Leibo

No relationship given

8

100

YELINA

Sroel

Yevno

Only person listed

8

101

OLSHA

Peisakh-Khaim

Sroal

Head

17

101

OLSHA

Sora

wife

14

102

LEF

Itsko

Leiba

Head

40

102

LEF

Sora

I. Wife [wife of Itsko b Leiba Lef]

40

102

LEF

Movsha

Itsko

[son of Itsko b Leiba Lef]

18

102

LEF

Tsipa

M. Wife [wife of Movsha b Itsko Lef]

18

103

KHAENKES

Zalman-Girsh

Rubin

Head

20

103

KHAENKES

Fruma

Wife

20

104

KHVELUK

Girsh

Movsha

Head

40

104

KHVELUK

Sora

Wife

45

104

KHVELUK

Rokhlya

Girsh

[dtr of Girsh b Movsha Khveluk]

13

105

KHVELUK

Leiba

Movsha

Head

36

105

KHVELUK

Sora

Wife

20

106

SHOSTAK

Shender

Berko

Head

42

106

SHOSTAK

Ryva

Wife

41

107

CHORNY

Leiba

Elya

Head

40

107

CHORNY

Malka

Wife

40

108

TSERLES

Leiba

Itsko

Head

40

108

TSERLES

Pesya

Wife

40

109

KAPLAN

Pinkhes

Yosel-Shimen

Head

40

109

KAPLAN

Breina

Wife

36

110

DUMOVES

Khaim

Leiba

Head

30

110

DUMOVES

Bazheva

Wife

32

111

TARKH

Elya

Evno

Only person listed

46

112

TARG

Beinis [in webmaster's copy as Beilis]

Iosel-Matus

[check name in 1834]

29

112

TARG

Basya

wife

20

113

KAPLAN

Yankel

Borukh

head

32

113

KAPLAN

Khaba (Khava)

wife

20

114

GAM

Gershen

Yevna

head

35

114

GAM

Sora

wife

40

115

GRIPSHMAN

Shmerko

Nevakh

head

40

115

GRIPSHMAN

Sora

wife

30

116

KAPLAN

Shmerko

Leiba

head

40

116

KAPLAN

Beilya

wife

36

117

GELFES

Girsh

Zelman

head

54

117

GELFES

Basya

wife

40

117

GELFES

Sora-Golda

Girsh

[dtr of Girsh b Zelman Gelfes]

5

118

KHAIKES

Yankel

Mikhel

head

30

118

KHAIKES

Zlata

wife

28

119

BLUMES

Itsko

Nekhman

head

38

119

BLUMES

Ester

wife

32

120

BLYAKHAR

Vigdor

David

head

30

120

BLYAKHAR

Ester

wife

28

121

MASENZHNIK

Girsh

David

head

47

121

MASENZHNIK

Ester

wife

40

122

GRINBIRG

Yudel

Shakhno

head

28

122

GRINBIRG

Khaya

wife

25

123

KAPLAN

Dovid

Iosel

head

30

123

KAPLAN

Ryva

wife

30

124

KARABLYA

Leiba

Girsh

head

25

124

KARABLYA

Minka

wife

30

124

KARABLYA

Malka

Leiba

[Dtr of Leiba b Girsh]

10

125

KERBEL

Abram

David

head

25

125

KERBEL

Ester

wife

17

126

SHUSTER

Yudida

Itsko

head

30

126

SHUSTER

Khisya

wife

18

127

MALOVIDSKY

Leiba

Itsko

head

40

127

MALOVIDSKY

Dvosya

wife

38

127

MALOVIDSKY

Khana

Leiba

[dtr of Leiba b Itsko Malovidsky]

15

128

KAPLAN

Abram

Beniyamin

head

40

128

KAPLAN

Bunya

wife

40

128

KAPLAN

Bluma

Abram

[dtr of Abram b Beniyamin Kaplan]

11

129

PREN

Yankel-Aron

Meyer

head

18

129

PREN

Slava

wife

20

130

MALOVITSKY

Mordukh

Berko

head

18

130

MALOVITSKY

Ester-Freida

wife

19

131

SLUCHAK

Leiba

Yankel

head

24

131

SLUCHAK

Leya

wife

24

132

EBSHTEIN

Movsha

Itsko

head

20

132

EBSHTEIN

Ester

wife

20

133

ZALTSMAN

Yankel

David

head

45

133

ZALTSMAN

Beilya

wife

30

133

ZALTSMAN

Gita

Yankel

[dtr of Yankel b David Zaltsman]

15

134

KHOZAK

Mordukh

Shmoilo

head

30

134

KHOZAK

Rokhlya

wife

24

135

OLKHA

Leiba

Mikhel

brother-in-law of Y

18

135

OLKHA

Khana

[wife of Leiba b Mikhel?]

17

135

OLKHA

Yudel

Khaim

Head?

13

135

OLKHA

Shlioma

Khaim

brother of Y [Yudel b Khaim?]

8

136

BUDOVLYA

Iosel

Leiba

head

50

136

BUDOVLYA

Freida

wife

45

137

ZHMOIDZYAK

Yevel

Abram

head

60

137

ZHMOIDZYAK

Shaina

wife

55

137

ZHMOIDZYAK

Abram-Mordukh

Yevel

[son of Yevel b Abram Zhmoidzyak]

14

138

SNOVSKY

Beinus

Aran

head

44

138

SNOVSKY

Feiga

wife

46

138

SNOVSKY

Sroel-Abram

Beinus

[son of Beinus b Aran]

12

139

SNOVSKY

Leizer

Beinus

[son of Beinus b Aran]

19

139

SNOVSKY

Feiga

[wife of Leizer b Beinus?]

20

140

KHVEDYUK

Volf

Movsha

head

40

140

KHVEDYUK

Pesya

wife

40

141

VOSHKOFTSER

Berko

Notka

head

46

141

VOSHKOFTSER

Slava

wife

25

142

SHTEIMAN

Nakhman

Gersh

head

40

142

SHTEIMAN

Khaika

wife

35

143

LITEVNER

Ellya

Gershon-Nokhim

head

60

143

LITEVNER

Khaika

wife

40

143

LITEVNER

Shender-Faivel

Ellya

[son of Ellya b Gershon-Nokhim Litevner]

18

144

NO LAST NAME

Meyer-Mordukh

Volf

head

20

144

NO LAST NAME

Basya

wife

22

145

LEV

Faibysh

Movsha

head

43

145

LEV

Sheina

wife

30

146

BALEN

Vulf

Girsh-Mikhel

head

36

146

BALEN

Khaya

wife

40

147

GOLDBARG

Itsko

Meyer

head

40

147

GOLDBARG

Sheina

wife

32

148

BUSEL

Itsko

Yankel

head

44

148

BUSEL

Rysya

wife

30

149

GOLDBARG

Yudel

Meyer

Head

35

149

GOLDBARG

Khaina

[wife of Yudel b Meyer Goldbarg]

40

149

GOLDBARG

Khaska

Yudel

[dtr of Yudel b Meyer Goldbarg]

14

150

SHELTS

Fishel-Girsh

Anshel

Head

28

150

SHELTS

Khasya

Wife

24

151

KHARACH

Gerts

Girsh

head

60

151

KHARACH

Rokhlya

wife

46

151

KHARACH

Gershon

Gerts

[son of Gerts b Girsh Kharach]

17

151

KHARACH

Khana

Gerts

[dtr of Gerts Gerts b Girsh Kharach]

14

152

SYSUN

Abram-Leib

Tsalko

Only person listed

18

153

ZLOTNIK

Ovsey

Volf

head

42

153

ZLOTNIK

Feiga

wife

33

154

GOLODGOR

Khayim

Yosel

head

38

154

GOLODGOR

Reiza

wife

32

154

GOLODGOR

Khana

Khayim

[child of Khayim b Yosel Golodgor]

13

155

GELFAN

Yosel

Berko

Head

50

155

GELFAN

Ryva

Wife

55

155

GELFAN

Basya

Yosel

[dtr of Yosel b Berko Gelfan]

18

156

GOLDBARG

Mendel

Zalman

head

34

156

GOLDBARG

Rokhlya

wife

26

157

KLON

Yosel

Afroim

head

60

157

KLON

Simka

wife

40

158

MALOVITSKY

Leiba

Mordukh

head

40

158

MALOVITSKY

Golda

wife

30

159

BRAZHNIK

Aron

Sroal

head

50

159

BRAZHNIK

Ryva

wife

50

160

BURSHTEIN

Sholom

Khayim

head

68

160

BURSHTEIN

Khana

wife

60

160

BURSHTEIN

Azriel-Khayim

Movsha

Relationship not given, possibly grandson

12

161

DOBES

Khayim

Sheya

head

50

161

DOBES

Feiga

wife

40

162

GOLFAND

Tsalko

Girsh

head

44

162

GOLFAND

Leya

wife

22

163

LIFSHITS

Ovsey

Mordukh

head

40

163

LIFSHITS

Leya

wife

33

164

ARONEVCH

Orko

Leizer

head

40

164

ARONEVCH

Ryva

wife

36

165

RYSEKH

Shmuel-Zimel

Shaya

head

16

165

RYSEKH

Tylka

wife

16

166

KAPLAN

Kalman

Yosel

head

45

166

KAPLAN

Pesya

wife

36

167

KHABAS

Leiba

Shmoilo

head

43

167

KHABAS

Merka

wife

36

168

GEFENBLOZEN

Nota-Aron

Kushel

head

25

168

GEFENBLOZEN

Golda

wife

22

169

YUDOVICH

Giler

Sroel-Shloma

head

38

169

YUDOVICH

Dobrys

wife

30

170

RYZHES

Tsodzik

Matis

head

40

170

RYZHES

Khasya

wife

31

170

RYZHES

Khaya

Tsodzik

[dtr of Tsodzik b Matis Ryzhes]

10

171

ZATTS

Yavkhim

Yudel

head

36

171

ZATTS

Golda

wife

36

172

MINKES

Rubin

Abram

head

40

172

MINKES

Ryva

wife

22

172

MINKES

Minka

Rubin

[dtr of Rubin b Abram Minkes]

6

173

DOBES

Shimen

Girsh

head

60

173

DOBES

Dynya

wife

56

173

DOBES

Berko

Shimen

[Son of Shimen b Girsh Dobes]

30

173

DOBES

Basya

Berko's wife

20

173

DOBES

Peisakh

Meyer

Relationship not given

38

173

DOBES

Khasya

Peisakh b Meyer's wife

33

173

DOBES

Sora

Peisakh

[dtr of Peisakh b Meyer Dobes]

11

174

LEV

Leiba

Notka

head

22

174

LEV

Ryva

wife

22

175

OLKHA

Abram

Yosel

head

25

175

OLKHA

Rokhlya

wife

20

176

OLKHA

Mendel

Berko

head

28

176

OLKHA

Fruma

[wife of Mendel b Berko]

26

177

MEDRES

Berko

Itsko

head

40

177

MEDRES

Leya

wife

30

178

GRINSHTEIN

Abram

Leibo

head

58

178

GRINSHTEIN

Khaya

wife

40

178

GRINSHTEIN

Youzep-Itsko

Abram

[son of Abram b Leibo Grinshtein]

12

179

KHIENKES

Berko

Leizer

head

45

179

KHIENKES

Basya

wife

46

179

KHIENKES

Itsko-Yankel

[Son of Berko b Leizer]

14

180

CHARNY

Itsko

Yosel

head

44

180

CHARNY

Reiza

wife

40

180

CHARNY

Yosel

Itsko

[son of Itsko b Yosel]

18

181

PURCHIK

Khonon

Abram

head

22

181

PURCHIK

Freida

wife

20

182

VEBER

Benyomin

Shmoilo

head

30

182

VEBER

khana

wife

25

183

MUKOSEY

Movsha

Itsko

head

50

183

MUKOSEY

Ryva

wife

45

184

MUKOSEY

Abram

Slova

head

24

184

MUKOSEY

Rokhlya

wife

28

185

LEV

Zalman

Aran

Only person listed

25

186

MEKHEL

Mordukh

Yudel

Only person listed

30

187

SHAKH

Yosel

Abram

Only person listed

25

188

GRINSHPAN

Shmoila

Shaya

head

48

188

GRINSHPAN

Ester

wife

42

189

BREVDA

Khaikel

Leibo

head

23

189

BREVDA

Brevda(!)

Needs to be checked in original, seems to have Brevda written as “first name” for a female. [wife of Khaikel b Leibo Brevda]

18

190

OLANDA

Movsha

Khatskel

head

22

190

OLANDA

Beilya

wife

21

191

EBSHTEIN

Movsha

Abram

head

25

191

EBSHTEIN

Basya

wife

23

192

BEGUN

Yosel

Gets

head

40

192

BEGUN

Leya

wife

40

192

BEGUN

Mordukh-Leib

Yosel

[son of Yosel b Gets Begun]

7

193

BEGUN

Ellya-Leib

Abram

head

20

193

BEGUN

Pesya

wife

16

194

KURKHENS

Berko

Shmoilo

head

30

194

KURKHENS

Feilya

wife

29

194

KURKHENS

Abram-Itsko

Berko

[son of Berko b Shmoilo Kurkhens]

4

195

GANTSEVICH

Dovid

Shlomo

head

28

195

GANTSEVICH

Rokhlya

wife

24

196

DUBINCHIK

Movsha

Sholom

head

34

196

DUBINCHIK

Itka

wife

32

197

DUBINCHIK

Dovid

Sholom

Only person listed

35

198

GRINGOR

Leizer

Perets

Only person listed

39

199

GUK

Volf

Meyer

head

40

199

GUK

Itka

wife

40

200

DUBINCHIK

Yuda

Dovid

head

65

200

DUBINCHIK

Shifra

[wife of Yuda b Dovid Dubinchik]

34

200

DUBINCHIK

Munya

Yuda

[son of Yuda b Dovid Dubinchik]

8

201

KOVAL

Shmoila

Volf

Only person listed

34

202

BREVDA

Yudel

Itsko

Only person listed

9

203

BREVDA

Sholom-Shimshel

Yosel

Only person listed

10

204

EBSHTEIN

Movsha-Shimshel

Lemel

Only person listed

4

205

KHAIT

Shloma

Nisen

head

45

205

KHAIT

Muniya

Shloma's wife(?)

40

205

KHAIT

Osher

Nisen

[brother of Shloma b Nisen Khait?]

28

205

VINGER

Yevna

Nisen

brother-in-law

30

206

KOLODNA

Shmoila

Yankel

Only person listed

40

207

BUSEL

Ellya-Leib

Khayim

Head

20

207

BUSEL

Leya

Wife

18

208

GRUSHKA

Itsko

Iser

Head

40

208

GRUSHKA

Freida

wife

35

209

DYSHKAN

Meyer

Yosel

Only person listed

15

210

ODAKHOVSKY

Leizer

Itsko

Only person listed

11

211

VALOKHNYANSKY

Movsha

Itsko

Only person listed

6

212

VOSHKOVTSER

Itsko

Meyer

(two minor children listed together, Itsko b Meyer listed first)

14

212

VOSHKOVTSER

Abram

Meyer

Itsko's brother (two minor children listed together, Itsko b Meyer listed first)

8

213

BREVDA

Itsko

Aron

(two minor children listed together, Itsko b Aron listed first)

7

213

BREVDA

Girsh

Aron

Itsko's brother (two minor children listed together, Itsko b Aron listed first)

5

214

KHACHER

Shimshen

Leizer

Only person listed

5

215

NO LAST NAME

Abram

Gavrel

Only person listed

10

216

UTSYOS

Movsha

Berko

Only person listed

3

217

DUBINCHIK

Movsha

Dovid

Only person listed

14

People Reported as Dead, Missing, or Runaway, in the 1816 Revision List
by Deborah Glassman, copyright 2007

I don’t know for what reasons people chose not to be included in these lists. Later in-the-century, answers would have concentrated on conscription evasion, but there was no compuslary service for Jews in Russia in this time period. Tax–burden reduction would have been my next guess, but in compiling this list, initially as part of the patronymic index, I found that people who were reported missing in 1816, were generally in the 1819 Revision List. That tax evasion seems of amazingly short duration. More confusingly, people who were reported dead in 1816, often had a single exact counterpart sharing their name and father’s name in 1819, whereas the 1819 person had not been reported earlier.I don’t know if the effects of a shared set of documents for the 1811 and 1816 Revision List, made the effects just more noticeable or if we should always be suspicious of deaths reported in any revision list. But the table below certainly indicates that the data is not always as straight-forward as it appears. The table below is a work in progress. We may find evidence eliminating a seeming connection, or we might find that we simply haven't made a correlation between two people on very different parts of the page. Somebody described with the names Yehiel or Wolf or Leib, might appear elsewhere as Michael, Benjamin, or Yudel. I might miss a Yudel whose name is written as Idel, and I might have overlooked somebody whose correspondent entry used only the second part of a combination name, i.e. a Moshe Sholom listed elsewhere as Sholom, a Benjamin Israel showing up as a "Srol".

Dead/Missing 1816 with Correspondents in the 1819 Revision
All indices on this page are ©Deborah Glassman 2007 and may not be reproduced in whole or part without her written permission.

SURNAME of person in 1816 RL

Name of person in 1816 RL

Name of father

Condition Reported

SURNAME of correspondent in 1819 RL

Name of Correspondent

Name of Correspond-ent’s father

Ages in 1811 and 1819

BERKOVICH

Abram

Leiba

absent in 1816

there is one man who could match both Abram son of Leiba BERKOVICH and Abram son of Leiba LEV so not sure - GRINSHTEIN

Abram

Leib

46/58

BERKOVICH

Avigdor

David

ran away in 1812

BLYAKHAR

Avigdor

David

20/30

BERKOVICH

Azriel

Shemshel

ran away in 1812

BERKOVICH

Izriel

Shimshel

18/25

BERKOVICH

Khayim Leiba

Movsha Sholom

died in 1813

BERKOVICH New May 2008

Khaim

Movsha

12/20

BERKOVICH

Kushel Kasriel

Mordukh

died in 1813

MENAKER

Kushel

Mordukh

30/33

BERKOVICH

Leiba

Nokhim

died in 1816 *

GIZ

Leiba

Movsha-Nokhim

50/54

BERKOVICH

Leizar

Yosel

run away in 1816

?

BERKOVICH

Nisen-Borukh

Leiba

died in 1812

?

10/

BREVDA

Itsko Leiba

Abram-Berka

died in 1815

?

nf

BURSHTEIN

Mordukh Leizer

Leiba

died in 1815

NEIMAN

Mordukh Leizer

Leiba

14/20

BURSHTEIN

Ovsey-Aron

Smuilo

died in 1813

?

4/

BURSHTEIN

Shmuilo

Ovsey

run away in 1812 *

LOES

Shmuilo

Ovsey

49/45 (age in right grouping)

BURSHTEIN

Sholom

Khaim

died in 1812 *

BURSHTEIN

Sholom

Khaim

69/68 (age in right grouping)

BUSEL

Mikhel

Yosel

died in 1814

?

58/

BUSEL

Yankel Movsha

Yosel

died in 1812

?

BUSEL

Yosel

Yankel

died in 1812 *

New May 2008 He appears in 1834 RL claiming to have been absent previously! He is posted alongside the same children

Yosel

Yankel

45/66

DAREVSKY

Yankel

Borukh

absent in 1816 *

KAPLAN

Yankel

Borukh

36/32? (age in right grouping)

EPSHTEIN

Yosel-Itsko

Berko

died in 1815

GOBSHTEIN

Yosel

Berko

2/12

EPSHTEIN?

Yankel-Movsha

Itska

died in 1813

EPSHTEIN

Movsha

Itska

5/20

EPSHTEL

Meyer

Ovsey

ran away in 1812

YEBSHTEIN

Meyer

Ovsey

43/45

EPSHTEL

Nisyn

Meyer

ran away in 1813

?

FARBOTNIK

Yosel

Leiba

died in 1816

There is a Yosel son of Leib in the 1819 RL but he is 50 yr old Yosel BUDOWLYA and the age grouping does not support correspondence.

18/

GAVZA

Dovid

Leiba

ran away in 1812

If he was 37 rather than 27 in 1811, then maybe he corresponds to David son of Leiba GULICH, age 50 in 1819 RL

GAVZA

Movsha

Azriel

ran away in 1813

GOUZA

Movsha

Izreel

3/13

GAVZA

Shaya

Azriel

ran away in 1813

GAUZA (from source other than this record, his father’s name is known to be Moshe Azriel)

Shaya

Moshe

15/16 (age problem in the lack of advancement but in right age grouping)

GLINA

Aron

Vulf

died in 1813

?

29/

GLINA

Vulf

Yosel

died in 1816

?

GLUKHOVSKY

Mordukh-Khaim

Shmuilo

died in 1813

KHOZAK

Mordukh

Shmuilo

20/30

GRABINA

Mordukh

Kalman

absent in 1816

GRINBARKH

Mordukh

Kalman

51/64

GRINSHPAN

Itsko-Mordukh

Meer

disapeared in 1816

GOLDBARG?

Itsko

Meyer

24/40

KACHER

Leizar

Perets

“died in 1813” appears as Leizer b Shmuil Perets KACHER in 1816 age 40

KACHER

Leizer

Shmuil Perets

29/40

YABLONA

Leizer

Shmuil

ranaway 1813

GRINGOR

Leizer

Shmuil

46/40

KACHER

Nakhmen

Perets

died in 1813

?

KAPLAN

Berko

Rubin

died in 1815

KAPLAN

Berko

Rubin Shmuel

29/33 in 1816

KHARLIP

Yudel-Khaim

Itsko

died in 1812

KHARLET

Yudel-Srol

Itsko

4/17 exact

KHAVZA

Khiel

Vigdor

died in 1813

?

nf

KLEYMAISTER

Shmuilo-Itsko

David

died in 1814

?

34/

KUSHNER

Yankel

Nosel [reported incorrectly previously on this page as Yosel]

died in 1815

New Identification May 2008 KUSHNER

David

Nosel

38/43

KUSHNER

Yavkhim-Yankel

Idel

died in 1813

ZATTS

Yavkhim

Idel

25/30

LEV

Abram

Leiba

died in 1816

there is one man who could match both Abram son of Leiba BERKOVICH and Abram son of Leiba LEV so not sure - GRINSHTEIN

Abram

Leib

46/58

MALINA

Yosel

Yekhraim [Yefraim?]

absent in 1816

KLON Newly identified May 2008

Yosel

Afroim

56/60

MALINKI

Khaim

Yosel

died in 1812

GOLODGOR

Khayim

Yosel

29/38

MALOVICH

Movsha-Aron

Shmuilo

died in 1812

?

22/nf

MALOVITSKY

Aron-Yankel

Meyer

died in 1814

PREN

Yankel Aron

Meyer

Age was given as 4 – was it 14?/ 18

MALOVITSKY

Itsko

Meyer

died in 1812

?

nf

MALOVITSKY

Leiba

Itska

ran away in 1813

MALOVIDSKY

Leiba

Itsko

36/40

MALOVITSKY

Leizer-Afroim

Mordukh

died in 1812

?

nf

MALOVITSKY

Osher

Mordukh

run away in 1813

MALOVIDZKY

Osher

Mordukh

x/33

MUKASEY

Movsha

Itsko

died in 1815

MUKOSEY

Movsha

Itsko

38/50

MUKASEY

Todoris

Itsko

died in 1813

MUKASEY

Todris

Itska

46/60

MYKASEY

Izroel-Aizik

Zimel

died in 1814

MUKASEY

Srol

Zymel- Abram

24/18 [ages don’t line up]

MYKASEY

Zimel

Itska

died in 1815

?

nf

ODUKHOVSKY

Leizer

Zailik

ran away 1813

ODAKHOVSKY

Leizer

Zelik

24/31

ODUKHOVSKY

Mordukh-Mikhel

Khaim

ran away 1812

?

nf

OGINSKY

Abram

Nevikh

died in 1815

?

nf

OGINSKY

Yankel

Zelman

died in 1816

OGINSKY

Yankel

Zalman

48/60

OLKHA

Shimen-Yudel

Khaim

died in 1812

OLKHA

Yudel

Khaim

10/13

RIBNIK

Shaya-Gevsha

Khaim-Berko

died in 1813

RIBNIK

Shaya

Khaim

24/35

ROZH

Mordukh

Khanan

ran away in 1813

?

nf

ROZHANSKY

Abram

Itsko

absent in 1816

?

nf

RUNIK

Leiba-Aron

Borukh

died in 1813

?

nf

SHKOLNIK

Fishel-Girsh

Anshel

died in 1812

SHELTS

Fishel-Girsh

Anshel

22/28

SHLEFER

Abram

Benyamin

died in 1814

KAPLAN

Abram

Benyamin

31/40

SHMUKHLER

Movsha

Khonon

died in 1813

?

nf

SHVETS

Movsha

Leiba

died in 1816

GIZ?

Movsha-Nokhim

Leiba

34/54 Age spread?

SNOVSKY

Beinas

Aron

ran away in 1813

SNOVSKY

Beinas

Aron

41/44

TKACH

Benyamin-Leibo

Mordukh-Shlioma

died in 1813

?

nf

VALOKHOYANSKY

Mordukh-Menko

Yevel

died in 1813

VALOFINSKY

Menko

Yevel

15/23

VALTSMAN

Yankel-Vulf

David

died in 1816

ZALTSMAN

Yankel

David

40/45

VATNEMAYSTER

Ovsey

Movsha

died in 1813

VINGER

Girsh

Shimon

“ran away 1812” but appears in 1816 under the name Girsh-Geshel Vinger

VINGER

Girsh-Geshel

Shimon

28/33

VINGER

Shimen

Girsh

absent 1816

DOBES

Shimen

Girsh

51/60

VINOGRAD

Dovid

Meyer

died 1812

New Find, May 2008 EPSHTEIN
1816RL, reported as missed in 1811. Recorded immediately adjacent to Vinograd household in which the missing David b Meyer Vinograd was son-law.

Dovid

Meyer Shlioma

15/24

VINOGRAD

Movsha

Faibish

died 1814

?

nf

YABLONA

Leizer

Shmuil

ranaway 1813 but Leizer b Shmuil Perets Kacher is present in 1816 and not in 1811

KACHER

Leizer

Shmuil Perets

46/40

YABLONA

Shmuilo

Leizer

died in 1813

?

nf

YOSILOVICH

Gershon-Girsh

Gerts

died 1813

KHARACH

Gershon

Gerts

12/17

YUDELYOVICH

Yosel

Berko

ran away in 1813

GELFAN

Yosel

Berko

38/50

ZADVORSKY

Vulf

Meer

died in 1814

GUK

Wolf

Meyer

40/40

ZAYETS

Benyamin-Itsko

Yosel

Absent 1816

ZAYETS

Benyamin

Itska;

15/19

ZHMUDYAK

Abram

Falya

ran away 1812

ZHMOYDZYAK

Abram

Falya

15/25

NG

Peisakh

Meer

died 1813

DOBES

Peisakh

Meyer

30/38

Revision Lists Resources

Imperial Russian Revision Lists Go to this page for a complete list of original Revision List documents and articles on using the Revision Lists as well as a vital new genealogy tool for using the Revision Lists here!

On this Page:

Introduction to the 1819 Revision List

The 1819 Revision List

Page Image of 1819 Revision List

Special Table - Dead and Missing in 1816 with Correspondents in 1819 Revision List

Article on People Reported as Dead, Missing, or Runaway, in the 1816 Revision List

2 Articles on the Signature Page of this Revision List

Surname Index to the 1819 Revision List

Notes on the “Sign-off” Page of the 1819 Supplementary Revision

by Neville Lamdan, copyright 2007

The 1819 Revision List and its images are from the Family History Library film #2010469 which is the same as NHAB file 333/9/220, pp.1009 ob.- 1045

1. On the last two facing pages of the 1819 Revision, it is indicated that 217 individuals or family groups were enumerated, made up of 244 males and 208 females, giving a total of 452 individuals.

2. In 1816, only 76 family groups had been recorded, i.e. about ¼ of the number recorded in 1819. If, on that basis, one assumes that in 1816 about one ¼ of the 1819 figure were recorded, that yields ~113 people. The combined total for 1816 and 1819 is then is in the region of 565 individuals. On the face of it, that is still a marked "under-count" for the Jews living both in the town of Lyakhovichi proper and the satellite villages in the vicinity at the time (bearing in mind that in 1764-5, a total of 729 Jews were recorded and that in general Jewish populations were on the increase).

3. A group of 7 Jews vouched for the validity of the 1819 revision. They all appear in the 1816 list. All, except for the first, Yankel Ashkenoz, signed both in Polish and Hebrew/Yiddish. Two added the title “Kahalni” after their names, indicating that they were leaders of the Jewish community.

4. Their names, in Polish, were as follows:

i. Yankel Yochilovicz Ashkenoz;
ii. Binyomin Iserovich Gruzko, Kahal leader;
iii. Nahman Izraelowicz, Kahal leader;
iv. Hirsz Leybowicz Malowick;
v. Leyba Szaiowicz Hawza [=Gavza];
vi. Gdala Wolfowicz Jelina;
vii. Meyer Jankelowicz Malawick.

5. No official rabbi appears on the list, presumably because at the time the institution had not yet come into being (only instituted a few years later).

6. In the 2 bottom lines of the page (below the Jewish signatures), two Russian officials signed off on the revision as well - the 1st name is Muravnikov and the 2nd is illegible.

7. The 1816 listing was arranged as a straight running list, with family groups (husbands, wives and whatever) written one after the other, on a single sheet and separated off by a ruled line; whereas in 1819 facing sheets were used, with males to the left and females to the right. This latter arrangement became standard form in 1834 and 1850-51.

8. Scan attached is not to scale, having been microfilmed, Xeroxed and cropped!

Neville Lamdan,
27.12.2007.

The Men who Signed the 1819 Revision List

by Deborah G. Glassman, copyright 2007
This article was written before Dr. Lamdan shared his insights and experience working with this particular census. The webmaster's different emphasis, on the men who signed this document and their family connections in Lyakhovichi, should still provide value and so the article has been retained on this page.

New Information Posted 2007! We are posting the signature page of the 1819 Revision List here and will be adding sample pages from the rest of the Russian language material in the future. The page posted here, shows important information for Lyakhovichi researchers, not previously found. Every official document of the community was signed and witnessed by five to seven members of the Jewish community. On this particular document, the first was the only one who affixed a name at least partially written in Cyrillic characters, he is also only one of two who did not use any Hebrew/Yiddish signature.

The rest of these attestors to the accuracy of the document signed in Polish and Hebrew, and the second and third witnesses are clearly labeled in their roles as "kahalny," member of the kahal of Lyakhovichi. Note that none of the signatories appears elsewhere in the 1819 list, because it was a list of those who had been "missed" in the previous recording, and these were men of substance unlikely to have been missed. Which is not to say that members of their families had not tried to stay off the rolls: Biniomin Yserowicz Gruszke who headed the non-Cyrillic signatories and Itsko son of Iser Grushka age 40 who appears in the table, were probably brothers; Leiba Szaiowitz Hawza was the uncle of Shaya son of Movsha Gauza age 16; and there were Yelins and Malawitskys on the list as well.

Signatories to the 1819 Revision List attesting to the 217 names
Yankel Yosel Yochilovicz ASHKENOZ, (signed in Russian). No title, the only Russian signature among the Jews.
Biniomin Yserowicz GRUSZKE, kahalny, (signed in Polish and Hebrew characters)
Nahman Israelowicz OGINSKI, kahalny, (signed in Polish only)
Hirsz Leybowiz MALOWICKI (signed in Polish and Hebrew characters)
Leyba Szaiowitz HAWZA [the name Gavza- note by webmaster](signed in Polish and Hebrew)
Gedala Wolfowiz JELINA (signed in Polish and Hebrew characters)
Meyer Jankelowiz MALAWICKI (signed in Polish and Hebrew characters)

Though it was said to be the custom for the leading rabbi to sign first or just after the head of the kahal, none of these men are designated "rabbi". Leyba Szaiowiz Hawza is noted in Hebrew as Yehuda Leib ben haRabbin Isaiah indicating that he is the son of Rabbi Shaya Gavza, who was rabbi in Lyakhovichi until his death in 1793. (See our article titled "Rabbonim, Rebbes, and Crown Rabbis of Lyakhovichi"). The first signature is one of the few with no Hebrew character signature which seems unlikely for a rabbi to omit. It is also the only signature written in Cyrillic characters, so perhaps Yankel Ashkenoz was an early official representative or advocate to the Russian authorities.

Each of the signers had appeared on the 1816 Census:
Yankel Yosel Yochilovicz ASHKENAZ appears in that report as Yankel son of Yosel Yekhel Ashkenaz, aged 54 with a wife reported as just 40 and a two year old son, (suggesting that this might have been a later-life second marriage). He was reported absent in 1811, back in 1816, a signatory in 1819, and finally, reported dead in the census of 1834. The person chosen to sign this list first has a proven presence in a quarter century of Russian documentation.
Biniomin Yserowicz GRUSZKE appears in that transliteration (rather than his Polish signature of 1818) as Beinomin-Itsko son of Iser, age 61, with a wife, son, and daughter-in-law
Nahman Israelowicz OGINSKI is recorded as 41 in 1811 and 46 in 1816 as enumerated with his wife, daughter, son-in-law and grandson.
Hirsz Leybowiz MALOWICKI who, in his Hebrew signature signs himself Zvi Hirsh ben Yehuda Malovitch, was recorded in 1816 as Girsh Malovitsky age 38 with a wife and three young children;
Leiba son of Shaya Gavza is 56 in 1811 and 61 in 1816, with wife, three married sons, and those sons' spouses and children, with his daughter's children filling the household next on the list;
Meyer Jankelowiz MALAWICKI was recorded as aged 56, with his wife, two sons and a daughter-in-law.
Gedala Wolfowiz JELINA is there though I did not see him at first and reported him missing in an earlier edition of this page. He is using, as others in his families would through the years, the spelling of ELINA. Gdalya was among the youngest of this group, just 34 in 1811 and 39 in 1816, with a wife and child in both enumerations.

This document is the first provider of proven members of the kahal, the Jewish communal leadership of Lyakhovichi. Two of the signers were listed as "kahalny" making Benjamin Grushka and Nachman Aginski (to give them the name forms their twentieth century name bearers from Lyakhovichi would use) the earliest known leaders of the Jewish community in Lyakhovichi. They are likely to lose that distinction as we learn more about the earlier centuries of Jewish life here, but their identification remains important as does the possibility of determining the role of Russian-speaking Yankel Ashkenoz who signed this document in the first position.

The other fact that stands out for these seven men, is that families with these surnames continued to exist in Lyakhovichi through the nineteenth century. We find the names Grushka, Aginski, Gavza, Jelin, and Malowitsky, in the community right up until the Shoah. A Gedaliah son of Wolf Jelin emigrated from Lyakhovichi eighty years after a Gedaliah son of Wolf Jelin signed this document, a half dozen men named Shaia Gavza lived in the town as the twentieth century began. There had been two lines of the Malowitsky family in the town since the mid-eighteenth century, Meir ben Yankel Malowitsky was in the one that had been separate from that of the Lechovicher Rebbes since the mid 1700s, but the other Malowitsky listed has not been identified. Yankel Ashkenoz's son reported in 1816 seems to have died in his thirties and it is not clear that Yankel had other descendants carrying his name.

One more fact, has become newly apparent, as more records are opened. Each of the men who were signatories in 1819 had lived in Lyakhovichi for more than thirty years because each seems to have appeared on the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1784 census, with the possible exception of a missing six year old. It may be a commonality of names but more likely the Beinomin son of Iser who is a 56 year old man in 1811, is the same person as the only Byniomin son of Iser on that earlier Census page. Yankel son of Yosel Yekhel Ashkenoz who was somewhere in age between the 54 reported for him in 1816 and the 67 which was said to have been his age in 1816 according to the 1834 Revision List, seems likely to be the same as the only Jankiel ben Josiel reported in the entire Lyakhovichi list of 1784. The Nachman son of Israel Oginski who is 41 in 1811, would have been only fourteen when we find one Nachman son of Israel living with his parents in 1784. Girsh son of Leib Malowitzky, at the easy-to-miss age of 6 or 7, has so far eluded me. Leiba son of the Rabbin Schaya Gavza is unmistakably present, with the wife and child in 1784, which his 56 years in 1811, would suggest. Gedalia son of Wolf Elina/Jelina is a young 34 in 1811, and so appropriately, the only Gedalia son of Wolf in 1784 resides with his parents. Meyer son of Jankel Malowitzky only has one possible match on the 1784 census and it lines up totally with other things we know about the Malowitsky family. So men who are established community leaders in the Russian period, were from families that were well established in the Polish-Lithuanian period. Remember that all of these men signed their names in Polish, first!

Creating a resource for collaborative research
on the history of the Jewish community
in what is today Lyakhovichi, Belarus

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Surname Index to the 1819 Revision
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NAVIGATION TOOLS

Documents of Lyakhovichi History:
The 1819 Revision List

The 1819 Revision List
contributed by the Lyakhovichi Research Group
Introduction by Deborah G. Glassman

The 1819 Revision List

The 1819 Revision List
All indices on this page are ©Deborah Glassman 2007 and may not be reproduced in whole or part without her written permission.

People Reported as Dead, Missing, or Runaway, in the 1816 Revision List
by Deborah Glassman, copyright 2007

Dead/Missing 1816 with Correspondents in the 1819 Revision
All indices on this page are ©Deborah Glassman 2007 and may not be reproduced in whole or part without her written permission.

Revision Lists Resources

Notes on the “Sign-off” Page of the 1819 Supplementary Revision

by Neville Lamdan, copyright 2007

Creating a resource for collaborative research on the history of the Jewish community in what is today Lyakhovichi, Belarus

Shtetl Links: Lyakhovichi

Surname Index to the 1819 Revision All indices on this page are ©Deborah Glassman 2007 and may not be reproduced in whole or part without her written permission.

NAVIGATION TOOLS

Documents of Lyakhovichi History: The 1819 Revision List

The 1819 Revision List contributed by the Lyakhovichi Research Group Introduction by Deborah G. Glassman

The 1819 Revision List

The 1819 Revision List All indices on this page are ©Deborah Glassman 2007 and may not be reproduced in whole or part without her written permission.

People Reported as Dead, Missing, or Runaway, in the 1816 Revision Listby Deborah Glassman, copyright 2007

Dead/Missing 1816 with Correspondents in the 1819 Revision All indices on this page are ©Deborah Glassman 2007 and may not be reproduced in whole or part without her written permission.

Revision Lists Resources

Notes on the “Sign-off” Page of the 1819 Supplementary Revision by Neville Lamdan, copyright 2007

Creating a resource for collaborative research
on the history of the Jewish community
in what is today Lyakhovichi, Belarus

Surname Index to the 1819 Revision
All indices on this page are ©Deborah Glassman 2007 and may not be reproduced in whole or part without her written permission.

Documents of Lyakhovichi History:
The 1819 Revision List

The 1819 Revision List
contributed by the Lyakhovichi Research Group
Introduction by Deborah G. Glassman

The 1819 Revision List
All indices on this page are ©Deborah Glassman 2007 and may not be reproduced in whole or part without her written permission.

People Reported as Dead, Missing, or Runaway, in the 1816 Revision List
by Deborah Glassman, copyright 2007

Dead/Missing 1816 with Correspondents in the 1819 Revision
All indices on this page are ©Deborah Glassman 2007 and may not be reproduced in whole or part without her written permission.

Notes on the “Sign-off” Page of the 1819 Supplementary Revision

by Neville Lamdan, copyright 2007