Hello,
According to page 3 or the book "Jewish Surnames in Prague (15th-18th centuries) by Alexander Beider, a man named Abraham SCHICK HUNGERLEIDER can be found in a book by a man named Freudenthal, listing names of Jewish visitors to the Leipzig fair from 1675 to 1764. Apparently, Abraham is noted in the Freudenthal book as having visited Leipzig in 1746, and as being from Brandeis an der Elbe (Brandys nad Lebem).
My family is UNGERLEIDER from Secovce, Slovakia, which I can trace back to the birth of Markus UNGERLEIDER ca. 1804. It is thought that everyone with the [H]UNGERLEIDER surname is related. I am trying to document a possible change from the double surname of SCHICK HUNGERLEIDER to the single surname of [H]UNGERLEIDER.
I've look at the inventories of the Jewish population of Bohemia 1723-1811 that can be found on-line, and found no references to [H]UNGERLEIDER at all, though I found a number of people named SCHIK/SCHICK, mostly in Novy Bydzov with a few in Rychnov nad Kneznou, Studnice and Nachod.
Would anyone know if any of these people subsequently adopted the [H]UNGERLEIDER surname?
Can anyone offer any suggestions? The earliest [H]UNGERLEIDER families I've found in Hungary are from census records from 1775 in Hanusfalva (Spisske Hanusovce in Slovakia) on JewishGen's All Hungary database showing an Abraham HUNGERELIDER (born about 1710) married to Ilona JACKUBOVICS with two married sons, Jacobus and Aron (both born around 1740) and two other HUNGERLEIDER families (Mosko and his wife/unnamed children and Josephus and his wife/unnamed children) who are also probably Abraham's sons.
I think it's possible that the Abraham SCHICK HUNGERLEIDER who went to the Leipzig fair in 1746 could have been born around the same time as the Abraham HUNGERLEIDER in Hanusfalva in 1775, so I'm wondering if they might have been the same person? Although the [H]UNGERLEIDER family is huge and everyone seems to have the same 5 or 6 names, so teasing them all out has definitely been a project!!
Anybody have any suggestions as to how/when/why the SCHICK might have been dropped, and/or how/why the family migrated to Slovakia?
Thank you very much for any help!
Judy Petersen
Fort Collins, Colorado
