| Headers |
|---|
|
Bride 25. Groom 39. Rav Kagan' officiated. Day January 24 Western/4 Shevat Hebrew. (These months are at the top of the column, we have pasted them into our extract.)
Place of wedding: Lipski street 11/8
Legal ketuba (kesuba). Witnesses Sh. Segal' and Kovarski.
Svir widower, petty bourgeois of Sventsyany uyezd Abram' Ankelevich' Chervin'. With divorced citizen Luchin (possibly Luczyn or Lutsk), Volhynia (Volyn gub.) Ester Berkovna Gevat, born Vainer (Weiner) ... (further details not legible).
Mother Lota in Vilna. Mother Khaya deceased.
Signed Avraham Tservin (in Hebrew). Wife's mark.
On the Hebrew side:
"Berkovna" becomes "bat Dov" (Dov=Ber).
"Street" is abbreviated by resh with a bar over it.
There seems to be only one witness, Shmuel Segal.
Source: Lithuanian State Historical Archives via Stewart Cherlin
Fall 2005