Hersh FRENKEL ²

   Other names for Hersh were Harry FRANKL and Harry FRANKLIN.

  General Notes:

Hersh was a ship chandler.

"The ships came to us [at Bobruisk on the Berezina] along the Dniepr from Ekaterinoslav, Cherkass, and Kiev--bringing flour, sugar, salt and other provisions. On the return trip they carried tar and turpentine. ...The Berezina River was the principal supply route not only for Bobruisk, but for the surrounding towns and hamlets. It had a heavy traffic of rafts, barges and ships. These businesses were entirely in Jewish hands."

"...The Bragmans emerged on the scene with the berlini [barge] business. The berlinis transported products from Polesye and Belarus to the Ukraine and Great Russia, and from the banks of the Dnieper River back to Polesye. The Bragmans built their warehouses from David-Horodok to Kremenchug and Yekaterinoslav. The berlinis transported wheat flour from Kiev, Poltava, and Kharkov, and sugar, barley grain, oil, coal and many other products over the waters of the Pripyat and Dnieper to their very ends."

Fay Franklin had "Frankel" as the original family name. ^{6 7 8 9}

  Research Notes:

"Frenkel" appears to be the Dnieper River Valley version of "Frankel." Beider has the following locations where Frenkels were commonly found: "Troki, Rechitsa, Berdichev, Ostrog, Kiev, Odessa, Chernigov Gub." The only intersection between the regions mentioned by Giroud-Fliegner where the Frankels moved into the Ukraine and the towns listed by Beider is at Ostrog in Volhynia. The working hypothesis at this point would therefore be that the change from Frankel to Frenkel occurred somewhere near there.

The German form, "Frankel," again according to Beider, is "a diminutive form of 'Frank,'" Frank itself coming from the German "Franke," someone from Franken (Franconia) west of Vienna. "Frankel" was first used during the 17th Century by descendants of Moses and Aaron Heller of Wallerstein, who were Levites. ^{10 11}

Hersh married Ida Fannie WOLF, daughter of Shmuel WOLF and Unknown, before 1878 in Ukraine.¹ (Ida Fannie WOLF was born in 1858 in Russian Empire ^{5 12} and died on Nov 11, 1925 in Philadelphia ¹³.)