Ancestors
Celia Grossman
b. 1894 · Galicia, Austria
Born 1894, Galicia, Austria
Children include Irving
Celia Grossman was born on 28 December 1894 in Galicia, the Polish province of the Austrian empire. Her naturalization papers of 1940 give the town as Mechnowitz, Poland. Her father was Frank Grossman and her mother was Ida Sandman.
She was living at 125 Osborne Street in Brooklyn when she married Samuel Feld on 1 March 1919. She was 25 and he was 23, and both had been born in Galicia. Neither had been married before. They were married at 466 Rockaway Avenue by Solomon Langner, with Abraham Levin and Meirow Pamnoff as witnesses.
Celia had two children. Sylvia was born in Brooklyn on 15 November 1919, and Irving on 8 January 1921. The 1920 census gave her birthplace as Poland, Austria. Through the 1930s the family lived in Brownsville, and from at least 1935 at 710 Stone Avenue.
Celia became an American citizen in her own right on 22 January 1940, in the federal court at Brooklyn. Samuel had become a citizen in 1925, after a 1922 law ended the rule that a wife took her husband's citizenship, so Celia had to apply on her own. In April 1950 she was 53 and living with Sam in the same part of Brownsville as her son Irving and his family.
Sources
City of New York, Department of Health, Certificate and Record of Marriage no. 2837, Borough of Kings, 1919; NYC Municipal Archives, https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/9077720
1940 US census, Kings County, New York, Brooklyn Assembly District 2, enumeration district 24-111, sheet 1A, lines 20-22; NARA T627; FamilySearch ark 1:1:KQ5Y-F8R
1920 US census, Kings County, New York, sheet 3B, line 53; NARA T625 roll 1182; FamilySearch ark 1:1:MJT2-DW1
1930 US census, Kings County, New York, Brooklyn, sheet 9B, lines 87-90; NARA T626 roll 1493; FamilySearch ark 1:1:X761-DTN
Declarations of intention 1920, vol. 216, no. 107929; Petitions for Naturalization, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, NARA; FamilySearch arks 1:1:7TDY-SQ6Z, 1:1:6G43-Q4WS, 1:1:6G7R-8HPB
New York, U.S. District and Circuit Court Naturalization Records, Eastern District of New York, certificate 274804; FamilySearch ark 1:1:6BWL-JWR4
1950 US census, Kings County, New York, Brooklyn, enumeration district 24-3676, page 14, line 28; FamilySearch ark 1:1:6XTB-P89X
NYC Municipal Archives, Kings County marriage certificate 2837 of 1919; FamilySearch: NYC marriage record ark 1:1:Q2C2-3NZ6, naturalization ark 1:1:6BWL-JWR4, 1920 census ark 1:1:MJT2-DW1, 1930 census ark 1:1:X761-DTN, 1940 census ark 1:1:KQ5Y-F8R, 1950 census ark 1:1:6XTB-P89X
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