Avrum Aberlin Neumark

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Aberlin zur Lilie

The information available to Ettlinger regarding Aberlin, =um 1516, son-in-law of Michael Zunz, was insufficient to allow him to conclude that he was the same person as Aberlin =16 IV 1550 HO 197 zur Lilie. But he caught several overlaps which caused him to make notes implying that he was hoping to find the connection. So, for example, on the Ele Toldot house sheet for the weissen Lilie, he shows the "two" Aberlins with some of the same children. Dietz (who, ironically, often combined people who actually were separate individuals) shows seamlessly that the two Aberlins are one person, and even slips and calls the only wife he knows about "Hindle", which was, in fact, the correct name for Aberlin's second wife.

Fortunately, the many entries in Andernacht about this man clear up the confusion. Looking first at the Ele Toldot sheet for "Aberlin aus der Mark =um1516", most of the details apply to him during his marriage to Vogel and many are reconfirmed in Andernacht. The E.T. indication that before his marriage to Vogel he had been married to her grandmother Ogy presumaby stems from a misreading of one of the house lists or another document. In any case, he was never married to Ogy (!).

The three children listed for Aberlin (and there were probably more) are not all by Vogel, however. Roeschen, who died 2 Jan 1514 (HO 149, Epidat ffb-3729), is by Vogel and is buried with her, but Loeb is definitely by Aberlin's second wife, Hindle Stangen (see below). Merle is by Vogel, which can be verified by the fact that she is married by 1527, and probably much earlier. An additional confirmation that she is by Vogel and not by Hindle is that Merle names a daughter Hindle long before the death of Aberlin's second wife.

But we need to backtrack and look at Aberlin's other "identity". The E. T. sheet for Aberlin zur Lilie =16 IV 1550 (HO 197, Epidat ffb-7069 – although it should be noted that this Epidat entry is not from the actual stone, which was not found, but from Horovitz, so it adds no new data) describes a man who seems to appear in Frankfurt in about 1525 to take up residence in the Lilie. What apparently actually happened was that, after Vogelchen's death, Aberlin stayed in Frankfurt until at least 1520, still being referred to as "Eidam des Michael Zunz". The Aberlin who appears in the Lilie in 1525 has a wife named Hindle. She is the daughter of the important Herz Stangen in Gelnhausen, and the timing is exactly right for Aberlin, widower of Vogelin, to have married Hindle and moved for a few years to Gelnhausen at the time of their marriage (say about 1522). Herz Stangen is also the father-in-law of Beer zum Buchsbaum, and the Ele Toldot sheet for Semmel zum Buchsbaum =um1550 gives some details on Herz's will, which confirms that Hindle is one of his daughters. However, the year of the will is 1548, not 1530, as is incorrectly cited on Semmel's sheet. It is correct on Hindle's sheet (=um1560).

And as a further indication that the two Aberlins are actually one man, Aberlin HO 197 is in grave #1875, right next to Vogelchen, who is grave #1874.

It should be noted that Loeb, the son of Aberlin and Hindle, shows in very few records, but always in the roten Hut. And, with regard to the rt Hut. It cannot be coincidence that Ettlinger finds Loeb bn Aberlin there in 1549, Dietz (p.329) finds him and Aberlin's widow, Hindle there, and And2 #857 refers to an Aberlin in the roten Hut in 1550. Had the family just moved there before Aberlin's death? The Lilie was by then occupied by Meir Gelnhausen, widower of Aberlin's daughter Merlin and his family.