OPPENHEIM


 Jeisel
( - c. 1805)
(Meyer {Joel Moses, Schönchen})

Fradel
(Isac)
Joel (1772)
  Madel ROßKOPF ( -1840)
(Juda {David} & Sara {Martge})
David (1803), Elle (1805), Rahel (1809),
Jeisel (1811), Fradel (1813), and Rebecka (1821)

Gedalja (1773-1855)
Gütel FLÖRSHEIM (1776-1838)
(Samuel Levi)
Jeisel (1808), Röschen (1810), Samuel (1817)
Schönle (1777-1859)
Moses ROßKOPF ( -1822)
(Juda {David} & Sara {Martge})
David (1799), Regina (1804), Joseph (1808),
Kalman (1811), Isaak (1813), Fratel (1816),
Feil (1819), Juda (1821)
Isaak (1779-1849)
Breine FLÖRSHEIM (1781-1853)
(Samuel Levi)

Jeisel (1810), Biene (1812), Fradchen (1814),
Samuel (1815), Friedericke (1820), Meier (1823),
Rebecka
Bär (1786-1864)
Jette MEILECH (1794-1854)
Jeisel (1822), Meilach (1824), Meier (1827),
Madchen (1831), Friedericke (1833), Keile (1836)
Moses (1793)
Röschen ROSENHAUPT (1805-1831)
(Heinmann
)
Friedericke (1830)
Sarah WERTHEIM (1797-1850)
(Abraham & Caroline)
Bienchen (1832)

Joel Moses likely married Shönchen had a son, Meyer Joel, who lived in Niederaula and likely had a son, Jeisel. Schönchen died as a widow in 1755.1

Jeisel (c. 1750), son of Meyer, married Fradel "Friedericke",2 daughter of Isac, lived in Niederaula, and had children: Joel (1772), Gedalja (1774), Schönle (1777), Isaak (1779), Bär (1786), and Moses (1793). Jeisel likely died around 1805.3



Research Notes

1. An archival document of Niederaula from 1779 (HStAM Best. 340 von Dörnberg No. 2124) lists Joel Moses, his son, Meyer Joel Moses, and his grandson, 33 year old Beer Meyer (this explanantion is provided in the context of a gravestone in the Oberaula Jewish Cemetery for Schönchenin, widow of Joel of Untergeis, who died in 1755 - she was possibly the widow of Joel Moses, since the Jewish residents of Untergeis belonged to the Jewish community of Niederaula). Jeisel Meyer is listed as the father in the two marriage records of his son, Moses Oppenheim, in 1830 and 1832.

2. The only records in which Jeisel's wife's name appears explicitly are the marriage records of her son Moses. Here it appears as Friedericke, which is almost certainly a secular version of her Hebrew/Yiddish name. The prevalence and clustering of the name Fradel in the names of her granddaughters (1813 daughter of Joel, 1816 daughter of Schonle, and 1814 daughter of Isaak) and the known use of Friedericke as a secular variant of Fradel provides high confidence that her "Jewish" name was Fradel.

3. Jeisel's first son Joel had a son David (1803) before naming his second son Jeisel in 1811. This sets a lower bound for the elder's death at 1803. Jeisel's second son Gedalja named his firstborn son Jeisiel in 1808, setting an upper bound. So, we the elder Jeisel likely died between 1803 and 1808 (or about 1805).

4. She was married prior to the adoption of permanent surnames, so she did not really have a maiden surname. Also, her likely brothers in Gersfeld, Moses and Salomon, adopted different surnames: Rosskopf and Weinberg, respectively. Since Moses was the older sibling and the most confidently connected to Juda David of Gersfeld, I've taken her "pseudo" maiden surname to be Rosskopf.