And Chayes probably stems from the Hebrew Hayat often appearing as
Schneider in German or Croitoru in Rumanian, always meaning tailor.
Miriam Chayes?
[Berti Glaubach]
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:23 PM, Bianca Rosenthal <brosenth_at_calpoly.edu> wrote:
> The female “Dr. Chayes” was the wife of Dr. Ludwig Chayes, a prominent lawyer
> and real estate owner. They also had a daughter named Hermine.
>
> Bianca
> On Jan 17, 2018, at 7:30 AM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylor37_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> The name Chayet, or rather the Yiddish version of this name "Chayes",
> Was a common name in Czernowitz, I believe that there was a female "Dr. Chayes",
> Referred to as "die Chayes" by my mother.
> Mimi
> Sent from my iPad
> On Jan 15, 2018, at 2:03 PM, Peggy Walt <peggy_at_culturalaffairs.ca> wrote:
> --Apple-Mail=_53B476DB-C5CF-47DA-A5C5-1728CD26C2FC
> My husband=E2=80=99s family name from Czernowitz was Hite (or Chayet), =
> but at some point it was changed to Walt. He believes his grandfather =
> was a tailor and the sign was over the door, meaning both tailor and the =
> family name. The name change was attributed to his grandfather having =
> to serve on a jury where some fascists were convicted and wanting to not =
> be so conspicuous, were were told. I did find his grandmother=E2=80=99s =
> grave in the cemetery records, hand-written =E2=80=9CWalt=E2=80=9D on =
> her headstone. But haven=E2=80=99t found much else in JewishGen in =
> terms of family birth, marriage records with that name.
> Thanks, Peggy
>
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