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Genealogy in the 21st Century.

Uman merchants in 1858

Uman Name Index Census 1858


This is the main census from town Uman, Uman, which took place on May 22, 1858.

This list only includes merchants families. There were 568 males and 567 females recorded in this list. Majority of them were 3rd guld merchants. Also many of these families seemed to come from the local bourgeois who have recently joined merchant class.

The numbers indicate how many families shared the same famly name

Family nameNotes
Akselrud
Averbukh
Beker(kh/r)is this was a bourgeois family who became merchants in 1852
Berdichevskiy
Berenshtein
Berenshtein (2) both families became merchants in 1852
Bergelson
Bergelson
Blokh family became merchants in 1852.
related: Lemberik
Brodskiy (2) both families became merchants in 1851 and 1852
Dorfman
Eidilman/[Eidelman]
Fleishman this family came from bourgeois in Podolia governorate.
They came to Uman as merchants in 1851.
Furer
Gelfenbein this family moved from bourgeois class to merchants in 1855
Gimelfarb
Ginzberg
Girshbrarg this family became merchants in 1855
Goldenberg
Goldenvaizer this family moved from bourgeois to merchants in 1856
Gorkhovskiy (2) one family became merchants in 1853
Gorodetskiy one son became bourgeois in 1851
Grinberg (2) one family became merchants in 1851
Grodzevskiy
Grosman (2)
Grosman (a.k.a. Dukelskiy) family moved from bourgeois class to merchants in 1855
Gurovich this family became merchants in 1851
Kagan family became merchants in 1851
Kaganskiy
Katsev family moved from bourgeois to merchant class in 1851
Kelmens widow Genya Kelmensova and her children. Came from bourgeois to merchants in 1851.
Kleinman
Koifmanv
Kotlov
Krasny
Krasnyanski family moved from bourgeois to merchants in 1851
Kuperman
Landau two sons excluded for medical reasons in 1853. Another son arrested.
Lemberskiy became merchants in 1851
Levin a merchant family from Pin'sk (Pinsk?), moved to Uman in 1854
Levinshten
Leybman this family became merchants in 1852
Limberskiy
Lindin
Lipovetskiy
Livshits
Maizelis
Markman/Markmon (2)
Mendel family moved from bourgeois to merchants in 1853
Mizyhiritskiy
Mogolevskiy
Nemiskiy
Ostrovskiy
Penkovskiy father fled
Rabinovich this family came from bourgeois in Liten, Podolia to Uman where they became merchants in 1855.
Revutskiy
Roitportnoy
Sharogradskiy
Shklovskiy (3) 1 family became 3rd guild merchant
in another family became merchants from bourgeois in 1857
in third family, uncle's family moved (out) as merchants in 1852.
Shor
Shtivel this family came from Balin merchants in 1851
Shvartsman in 1851 family moved to Berdichev as merchants
Sokolovskiy
Sykarskiy/Sikarskiy
Tulchinskiy (3)
Tverskiy this family came from from Vasilkov merchants in 1853
Umanskiy
Vainshenker
Vilshanskiy
Yakhnis
Yampolskiy
Yelin
Zazul family moved from bourgeois in Podolia governorate to Uman merchants in 1858
Zbarskiy
Zdorovyak (2) one family came from bourgeois to merchants in 1855.