The Brauers and Edelbergs emigrated from the Kurland area of Latvia between 1890 and 1930. The Brauers and Edelbergs lived for many years in Hasenpoth, Latvia now called Aizpute. The earliest records of Brauers and Edelbergs on these pages were found in an 1834 census of Jewish men entitled to live in Hasenpoth. Many (although not all) entered the US through Ellis Island. Among the first to immigrate were Leopold Brauer (1893) and Samuel Brauer (1895) and Ida Brauer Cantor. Many of the Brauers and Edelbergs to arrive later stayed first with one of them. The families settled in and around Jersey City in Hudson County, New Jersey, where descendents still remain. Click here for a link to a map of Brauer/Edelberg residences found in the 1930 census. There is also a Brauer family mausoleum in Jersey City.
We have since spread across the country. Some branches of the families emigrated to South Africa, Australia and England. The family tree is intertwined due to several generations of Brauers and Edelbergs marrying each other, both in Latvia and the United States. I know much less about the Kinleys (pictured on this page) - only that Hermann Kinley and Selah Quint emigrated to this country from Vilna, Lithuania in the 1890's where they met and married. |
