Father: unknown
Mother: unknown
Spouse: unknown
Children:
Biographical information:
This is the earliest identified line of the St. Petersburg Cherlins
We have been in contact with the descendants of Ilya, but the other two sons are known only from documents uncovered by Blitz.
Abram is listed in Russian documents under the names Cherlin and Chirlin as a grocer in the Novgorod district. The districts in which he was active are described using an obsolete military terminology. In 1895 he was trading in the Kolomiagi volost' of the Novgorod district and in 1897 he is again recorded as selling vegetables in the same location. In 1902 he was trading in the Selishche barracks of the Vysokovsk volost' and his son Jakov was trading in the Krechevitsk barracks in the Podberezskaia volost'.
We had been told previously (by the family) that in his youth Ilya lived in Polotsk, near Minsk and was in the grocery business.
In 1911-1912 there is a Fromatida Ruvimovna Cherlin working as a grocer in the village of Podberez'e of the same district. Various connections (or none) are possible: widow, daughter, or widowed daughter-in-law, and we have no information.
Added 2003: Leib Cherlin was known to us previously as the ancestor of a line of Cherlins in the U.S. we have referred to as the Lutsk Line because of their presumed origin in Lutsk. Now according to comparison of information by Ethel Blum and Vladimir Cherlin, we understand that their grandfathers Ilya and Leib were brothers. The page has been updated to reflect that.
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File modified September, 2003