R. Abraham Yacov Katzenellenbogen died in Plungian in 1863

He wrote an original manuscript of the family genealogy in Vilna in 1843. He was the Progenitor of a large family though two children, many of whom settled in South Africa.

Source

The Unbroken Chain
Neil Rosenstein (1990) Volume 1, Chapter VIII, page 592 G12

(See Branch A below Katzenellenbogen Family of Plungian-Kovno-Kretinga.)

By 1816 adobted by the family of Moshe Rostovsky of Plunge and later married to his relative.