Message: "Angia and Henri as Jewish Polish names?"

Angia and Henri as Jewish Polish names?

by Miss Claire

5/30/2005, 4:30 PM

My old American cousin always talks about her uncle Henry, aunt Rose & her aunt Angia (not sure of the spelling, it sounds like an-jah / an-tshah). They were siblings. These names are nicknames or vernacular names for Hebrew or Yiddish names, but which ones... I identified Rose as Rudel thanks to her kids' names, but can't find the others.

Here are the other sisters:
Breindel Brucha
Esther (died too young)
Miriam Shaindel (probably died too young)
Golda (not her)
Baila Ruchel

Which could give Angia in your opinion?

Here are the brothers:
Lew (not him)
Shimon (died too young)
Moshe Hirsh

Which could give Henry?

~~ Claire ~~

My ! are Alia, Eidel, Enola, Israel, Dudel, Yuri, Lina, Lorelei, Leilani, Owen, Julian, Glorinda, Mirinda
My ? are Hillel, Meshullam, Johnny, Ginny, Cordelia, Fiammetta, Yocheved
My ~ are Tehila, Tilda, Hailey, Gillian, Huldah
My / are Aglaia and July

#Jewish #Polish

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- ADT

6/2/2005, 3:23 PM

"Angia" is a cutesy nickname for Ania - hence Anna.
It would be written Andzia.

- Anneza (guest) +1

5/31/2005, 12:52 AM

Probably Moshe Hirsch would be Henry, just because of the H initial. Ignoring the Moshe as 'too Jewish', since immigrants typically want to merge with the wallpaper, a popular English H name would look attractive when he needed to change.

Angia totally baffles me! I could have made a rather trite Angia = angel = bright object in the sky = Esther, especially if she died young ... but not if she died too young. (All those sisters, and not one of them a Chana! That would have worked ...) How very interesting!

- Miss Claire

5/31/2005, 4:31 AM

I thought of Hannah too! But there's no Hannah... As for Esther, Angia survived WW2 and emigrated to America, but Esther died in 1872 in Poland, so in fact I would need to know exactly which sisters were still alive after WW2. Mmmm. I lose tracks of Breindel after she graduates high school in 1871, Miriam Shaindel is probably dead by 1899 since she has a niece named for her, I lose tracks of Baila Ruchel after she registers her marriage with her husband in 1893 (17 years late, but yeah LOL). I will ask my grandad, maybe he remembers more about them.

Thanks for your help!

~~ Claire ~~

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