Re: [Cz-L] CZERNOWITZ AND ROMAN ON THE PRUT RIVER-WOLKENSTEIN SURNAME

hi, wolken are clouds and stein is stone but also can be cliff. the name
thus can refer to a clouded hilltop and for example schloss wolkenstein
would be a castle on such a hilltop and von wolkenstein is the knight or
whoever was the bossman there. regards cornel fleming
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Subject: [Cz-L] CZERNOWITZ AND ROMAN ON THE PRUT RIVER-WOLKENSTEIN SURNAME

> Good day!
>
> Two brother, Jean and Ernest WOLKENSTEIN were born in the 1880's to Louis
> and Leisa WOLKENSTEIN. (Surname of parents assumed as only given names
> were on
> Ernest's 1913 Brooklyn marriage certificate.)
>
> Documents suggest that Jean, born 1880, was born in Roman. Ernest's, born
> 1889, was born in Czernowitz.
>
> I have done some google type research and have leaned they are on the same
> Prut River and Roman is about 106 miles NNW of Czernowitz.
>
> I am not knowledgeable in Jewish (which I assume they were), political or
> economic history of the region during that time period. Would there have
> been a
> reason or would it have been uncommon for the parents to have moved from
> Roman to Czernowitz?
>
> Also, I know nothing about the WOLKENSTEIN surname. All I can find is
> the
> biography of Oswald Von Wolkenstein (1377-1455), Austrian muscian, poet
> and
> nobleman. No leads there. "Wolk" seems to be a lower German form of
> Walter.
> "Stein" refers to a stone cutter or a place that is stoney. "EN', I think
> reflets "son of".
>
> Anyone out there that can expand upon and/or correct what I think I know?
>
> In the US the brothers changed their names to WOLTON and VON WOLKENTEN
> during or after WWI, but no later than the early 1920's.
>
> Thank you!
>
> David Brener, Fargo, ND
>
Received on 2006-10-18 15:03:53