[Cz-L] A Question on Age

>http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/bukowinabook/buk1_075.html
>
>The above link will take you to the section of "The History of >Jews
in The Bukovina" that deals with education. In section III >there is
listed students from various classes attending school in >1857. In the
Class I for females I see the name of my great >grandmother, Rosa RUFF.
>Here is my question, I am wondering how old the members of this
>class might be.
>If for instance, the correct age for members of that class were six,
>and my great grandmother was born in 1851, her oldest child, my
>grandmother, would not have been born until Rosa was 32 (in 1883).
>Very unlikely. To make it even more complicated, my great
>grandmother's youngest child was born in 1905, which would have been
>(if my calculations are correct) when my great grandmother was 54!
>Even more unlikely.
>So is the answer that there were two girls named Rosa RUFF, growing
>up in Czernwitz at the about the same time?
>
>Any input would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Bruce Wexler
>Jackson, NJ USA
Received on 2005-06-14 10:02:00