Family of Avram EHRMAN and Malke MADER

Husband:	Avram EHRMAN (c. 1840- )
Wife:	Malke MADER (c. 1840- )
Children:	Isaac Groder MADER (c. 1870-c. 1947)

Husband: Avram EHRMAN

Name:	Avram EHRMAN
Sex:	Male
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	c. 1840

Wife: Malke MADER

Name:	Malke MADER
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	c. 1840	Belz, L'viv, Ukraine

Child 1: Isaac Groder MADER

Isaac Groder MADER

Spouse: Anna MEHR

Name:	Isaac Groder MADER
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Anna MEHR (c. 1870-c. 1948)
Birth	c. 1870	Belz, L'viv, Ukraine
Occupation		Banker
Death	c. 1947 (age 76-77)	Wien, Austria

Note on Wife: Malke MADER - shared note

Text by Katherine Mader.

EMail: nkulla AT aol.com

The only thing known about Malke was that while she was married to a man whose last name was Ehrman, she named her son "Isaak Mader". In other words, her son kept her last name rather than her husband's. As a result there have been many generations of Maders. According to a relative who remembers hearing the story as a child, Malke felt that the Mader name in Belz, Poland, was more "distinguished " than the Ehrman name. The Mader name was associated with scholarship and learning, and she wanted to perpetuate it. This is a good story, but may not be entirely true, as early Jewish tradition mandated that the mother's maiden name was passed on through a religious marriage, rather than the father's surname as a result of a civil marriage. It is particularly interesting that Katherine Mader, three generations later, also chose to keep her maiden name and pass it to her children in their last names of Kulla-Mader, similarly an effort to keep the Mader name from disappearing.

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Family of Avram EHRMAN and Malke MADER

Husband: Avram EHRMAN

Wife: Malke MADER

Child 1: Isaac Groder MADER

Note on Wife: Malke MADER - shared note