Just to add a little to Lloyd's question and Bruce's explanation of the word
'vel'.
I had a great aunt who was the last of my family to leave Czernowitz, in WW2
when it was too dangerous to stay. She came to London to live with my
grandfather who had settled in London much earlier, in 1908. Her name was
Gusta Siederer.
I have traced her birth registration from Czernowitz, which gives her name
as Gluckel vel Gusta Siederer, that is: the 'vel' / 'or' applied to the
forename rather than the surname. This was a re-registration in 1907, when
my great-grandparents had legitimised the births of all their children under
the new 1907 law which allowed civil recognition of Jewish marriages. My
great-grandparents themselves had remarried under this law. According to
this re-registration, Gusta was actually born in 1882. When she died in
London in 1945, her name on the death record was given as Gusta Gluckel,
that is no 'vel' and reversing the forenames. This format of her name would
have been given to the UK registrar by my grandfather and another brother,
both then living in London. It was usual in the family for members to have a
formal name plus an informal one by which they were actually known.
Nigel Siederer
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