A Braunhart Father's Day

On this Father's Day we remember our deceased Braunhart fathers. Some of us knew you and all of us wish we had met you.

Alexander Braunhart - Father of Moritz, Jakob, Anna, Martha, Theodor, Carl, Selma, Cecelia, Julius, Philipp, Frieda, Caesar, and one unknown

Harry Tulman (Husband of Anna Braunhart) - Father of Mildred, Muriel, Stanley, and Helene

Bernard Sternbach (Husband of Martha Braunhart) - Father of Leo, Harold, and Regina

Carl Braunhart - Father of Hanna and Heinz

Jacob Braunhart - Father of Erna, Margaret, and Herbert

Philipp Braunhart - Father of Horst, Gisela, and Bernhard

Salo Brunn - (Husband of Frieda Braunhart) - Father of Henry and Miriam

Max Markheim (Husband of Cecelia Bernstein) - Father of Arthur, Robert, Minnie, Pauline, Leo, and Edith

Isidor Heyman (Husband of Ernestine Bernstein) - Father of Celia, Martha, Arthur, Robert, Leo, and Mynette

Julius Braunhart - Father of Lilly and Lothar

Unfortunately we do not have photos of the following Braunhart fathers: 

Bernhard Braunhart – Father of Harry

Aaron Bernstein (Husband of Sara Braunhart ) - Father of Amalie, Ernestine, Cecelia, Hattie, Max and 2 others unknown

William Fried (Husband of Hattie) - Father of Leo

William Brock (Husband of Amalie) - Father of Teresa, Regina, and Eric 

A Braunhart Mother's Day

On this Mother's Day we remember our deceased Braunhart mothers. Some of us knew you and all of us wish we had met you.

Sara Braunhart Bernstein - Mother of Amalie, Ernestine, Cecelia, Hattie, Max and 2 others unknown

Helene Baszynska Braunhart - Mother of Moritz, Jakob, Anna, Martha, Theodor, Carl, Selma, Cecelia, Julius, Philipp, Frieda, Caesar, and one unknown

Anna Braunhart Tulman - Mother of Mildred, Muriel, Stanley, and Helene

Martha Braunhart Sternbach - Mother of Leo, Harold, and Regina

Hedwig Bukofzer Braunhart (Wife of Carl) - Mother of Hanna and Heinz

Ilse Gass Hart (Wife of Jacob) - Mother of Erna, Margaret, and Herbert

Else Schmalenbach (Wife of Phillip) - Mother of Horst, Gisela, and Bernhard

Frieda Braunhart Brunn - Mother of Henry and Miriam

Cecelia Bernstein Markheim - Mother of Arthur, Robert, Minnie, Pauline, Leo, and Edith

Hedwig (Hattie) Bernstein Fried - Mother of Leo

Ernestine Bernstein Heyman - Mother of Celia, Martha, Arthur, Robert, Leo, and Mynette

Unfortunately we do not have photos of the following Braunhart mothers: 

Rosa Levison Braunhart – Mother of Harry

Amalie Bernstein Brock - Mother of Teresa, Regina, and Eric 

Dorka Asch Braunhart (Wife of Julius) - Mother of Lothar and Lilly 

The Braunharts

For some reason I have been "obsessed" with finding out more about the Braunhart family over the last three years. I first found out about the family when reviewing the death certificate of Sara Braunhart Bernstein, my great great grandmother. My cousin Clyde Pound made me aware of Sara's brother Samuel, who was a very successful (and outspoken I might add - but more about that in a future post) politician, when I first talked to him about genealogy about three years ago.

In a recent post I talked about the life of Levin Jacob Braunhart, the "patriarch" of the Braunhart family. So far it appears that he and his wife Minnie Zadek, had at least four children that I can name.

The first, Bernhard Braunhart, immigrated to America in 1857. He married Rosa Levison and had one son, Harry.




Sara Braunhart, our direct ancestor, married Aaron Bernstein, and it appears that after his death, she immigrated to America in 1898. She had seven children, 5 who lived to adulthood. They were:

• Max, who never married.


• Ernestine - the oldest, who is my great grandmother who married Isidor Heyman. She had 6 children - Celia (my grandmother), Martha, Robert (who died of TB before he was 10 years old), Arthur, Leo and Wilhelmina (who changed her name to Mynette because she hated that formal name as well as the nickname Minnie).


• Amalie (Mollie) who married William Broch and had three children - Teresa, Regina, and Erick.


• Hedwig (Hattie) - who married Wilhelm Fried and had one child - Leo.


• Cecelia - who married Moses Aron (Max) Markheim and had 5 children, two who died early as well as Wilhelmina (Minnie), Leo and Edith.


• The two Bernstein children who died are nameless to me at this time.

The next Braunhart was Samuel Braunhart, the San Francisco politician - he immigrated to America in 1862. He never married.






The last of Levin and Minnie's children (that I know of) was Alex Braunhart. I do not believe that he immigrated to America - but at least one of his children - Anna did - in 1909. She married Harry Tulman and had at least 4 children - Mildred, Muriel, Stanley and Helene. I have not as yet been successful in tracking this family to find out more about Anna Braunhart. She had a sister Sara Selma Braunhart, who immigrated to America in 1946 at the age of 51. I do not know as yet what happened to her.

There are a few "stragglers" that I know are related but have not been able to place as yet. Brother and sister Jakob and Martha immigrated to America in 1904. I do not know what happened to Martha but Jakob ended up in San Francisco. He was the primary heir to Samuel's fortune when Samuel died in 1906 right after the San Francisco earthquake and fire. I know that he was there from 1910 to 1913 because of Census and City Directory info. He was implicated by the FBI as a German sympathizer during World War I when he joined the U. S. Army. He also was married but that is all I know about him. I do not know who Martha and Jakob's parents are - my suspicion is Alex Braunhart, but that is just a hunch from reading Samuel Braunharts' probate file.

There also was a Carl Gustav Braunhart who was born in Schubin - but I have no info at all as to his relationship to "our" Braunhart family.