Cherlin Family: Feiwe Carfin

Father: no information.

Mother: no information.

Spouse: no information.

Children: no information.

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Biographical information:

Ellis Island immigration records, pp. 793-794, line 14. Arriving from Hamburg, Germany on the Patricia, November 23, 1907.

Passenger Record Text Manifest Scanned Manifest

Surname Given
name
Age Sex Marital
status
Profession Nation Ethnicity Residence Destination Passage
paid by
$50? Previous visit Host Born
Carfin Feiwe 18 m s joiner Russia Hebrew Smilowitz NYC br.-i.-l. $4 no br.i.l. S. Clibanow 306
Cherry St. New York
Smilowitz

Smilovitz is Smilovichi, Igumen uyezd, Minsk gubernia; now Smilavicy, Belarus.

This name is not a variant of Chervin and its origin is unclear; possibly Tsarfin, a Russianized form of Tsorfan.

His brother Hirsch, aged 16, was on the same boat: see p. 152, line 9. He was going to his brother M. Carfin, 362-4 Cherry St., NY.

Created November 2003