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Fannie Nathanson

Born about 1847; death not recorded

Fannie Nathanson was born in the Russian Empire about 1847 and was living in Brooklyn in 1920, aged seventy-three, in the household of her daughter Gussie and her son-in-law Samuel Selig. She is the earliest-born person on this side of the family and the only one of her generation the archive holds by name.

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Fannie Nathanson was born in the Russian Empire about 1847 and was living in Brooklyn in 1920, aged seventy-three, in the household of her daughter Gussie and her son-in-law Samuel Selig. She is the earliest-born person on this side of the family and the only one of her generation the archive holds by name.

How is this person related?

Andrew John Leahey’s no relationship found in this archive

Worked out from the recorded parents and marriages. No sex is recorded for anyone in this archive, so the wording stays neutral.

Life

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References for this account: [1]

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  • Russia
  • United States
  • Brooklyn, New York City, New York

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Living with her daughter in Brooklyn, aged 73

Brooklyn Assembly District 12, ED 701, sheet 4B, household 88, entered as mother in Samuel and Gussie Selig's household.

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What the records say

1 record transcribed.

Record exhibit

Samuel and Gussie Selig household, 1920 United States census, Brooklyn

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Partly proved

Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.

Brooklyn Assembly District 12, ED 701, sheet 4B, household 88, line 67. Gussie Selig, wife, 38, born Russia, arrived 1889, both parents born Russia. Samuel Selig, husband, 40, born Russia, arrived 1893. Fannie Nathanson, mother, 73, born Russia.

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What we still don't know

  • When she came to America, when she died and where she is buried are all unrecorded. She is not among the sixteen Seligs at Mount Hebron, but she would be buried under Nathanson.
  • Her husband is unknown. He does not appear in the 1920 household, so he had probably died before it.

References

  1. [1] Samuel and Gussie Selig household, 1920 United States census, BrooklynBack to citation 1

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