Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:27:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Celia Male <celiamale@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: BAYER family of Schlusselburg Herrschaft , Bohemia

Susan Buyer has obtained familiant records of Nathan
BAYER of Markt Kasegowitz [Kasejovice], Schlusselburg
[Lnare] Herrschaft in the Prachiner Kreis, Bohemia.
see: http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/toview.html
(VM4713-4716). Nathan, son of Samuel married Katharina
in 1810 and had a son Aaron born in 1811.

There were 31 Jewish families in Kasejovice and a
further 15 families in Slattina [Slatina], also in the
Schlusselburg Herrschaft, in 1793. I have written
about them before {see Bohemia-Moravia SIG message
archives: Schutzjuden of the Prachiner Kreis of
Bohemia, 1794}.* In Kasejovice, there were six
families who were *without Schutz* [protection] -
perhaps newcomers?

Susan's family is designated as PAYER in 1793 and
Samuel PAYER - listed as *ohne {without} Schutz*, was
a peddler. Hanus Grab has kindly helped me with some
Czech words to understand what really was going on.
Whether Samuel PAYER really was without Schutz is not
absolutely clear because the original data had ditto
marks implying that five families who followed each
other in the records were all *without Schutz*. The
previous listed families are designated as "nacher
Schlusselburg" implying that they too were not
Schutzjuden originally but later obtained protection.
Perhaps this was the case with the other five
families, including Susan's family.

Samuel PAYER's wife is designated as a generic
"Rachel" [this is quite common] and the oldest son,
unmarried in 1793, is Nathan. He had a brother Gabriel
and two sisters Sarah and Maria. NB: sisters never
show up in the familianten records! Furthermore
Katharina, the wife to-be of Nathan, may be Kette the
daughter of Ezechias and Martha Ohrenstill.

The Jews of Kasejovice have been well-documented in:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~susanb/thejewsofkasejovice.htm

where it is fascinating you see the old and new names
taken by the families in the mid 1780s.

I have pieced together the data:
In 1785, Joseph Samohel {House No II} took the name
BAYER; in the 1793 census he is a peddler known as
Samuel Payer and lives next to Samon HERZIG a
livestock dealer but in 1796 they are both living in
House No II as "shopkeepers - piece goods" under the
names Samuel BAYER and Salamoun HERZIG.

I have noticed that the names Simon and Samuel also
appear to interchange in these records.

Names were fluid in those early days.

Celia Male [UK]