Symbol on Letter

Ralph N Baer

2019-09-25 18:16:58 UTC

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Thanks to everyone who responded to my Viewmate submission
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/responselist.asp?key=75219 . I am, of
course, interested in any additional interpretations. The consensus of the
responses, both on the website and by private e-mail, is that the symbol is
my great-great-grandmother Babette BAER nee KLEIN's monogram, although there
was not agreement as to whether it was in German or Hebrew.

Babette was born either on 23 October 1805 (data received from the
Joehlingen Jewish community by my granduncle Max BAER in the 1930s) or 24
October 1806 (the recently published Joehlingen Ortsfamilienbuch). In any
case, she was in her mid-teens in 1821 when the letter was supposedly
written. As one of the responders stated, the handwriting does not appear to
be by someone that young. I had earlier come to the same conclusion.

Two possibilities crossed my mind. For one, perhaps someone had written it
for her. More likely, the 1821 date is incorrect, and it was later. As I
wrote, the letter is undated, and the year 1821 is from the translation or
transcription into German script by my great-grandfather Nathan Carl BAER.
He wrote the 1821 in two parts. 18 was written at the same time as the
transcription and 21 later. I suspect that he did not know and asked a
sibling, most likely his oldest sibling who survived childhood Therese FRANK
nee BAER. Both lived in Frankfurt, and she was about ten years older than
he.

One more thing which I regard as funny. Babette BAER nee KLEIN was known as
Buhle when young. She had two sisters, Breinle and Berle (Bina). All three
used the German name Babette.

Ralph Baer Washington, DC ***@aol.com
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