POLLAKOFF, Annette (Nettie) C.

POLLAKOFF, Annette (Nettie) C.[1, 2, 3]

Female 1892 - 1955  (63 years)


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  • Name POLLAKOFF, Annette (Nettie) C. 
    Birth Abt 1889  Oriv, Ukraine Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Birth 26 May 1892  Oriv, near Odessa in Ukraine Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6
    Gender Female 
    Color/Complexion “Sallow”  [4
    Physical Description
    • Height: 5'4'' Eyes: bluish gray. Hair: chestnut brown
    Hair color “Reddish”  [4
    Height 5’4”  [4
    Immigration 23 Nov 1906  age 17 Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 7, 8
    • “Milliner”
    Occupation Milliner  [4
    Residence 1940  190-20 111th Ave. Queens, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Death 6 Dec 1955  Washington Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 10
    • Cerebral hemmorage
      Nettie took a lot of aspirin to treat painful arthritis. She fell into a coma during the honeymoon of her daughter, Ruth, who returned immediately with Stanley. Nettie died days later, but never woke up.
    Burial
    Nettie Pollakoff
    Notes 
    • Nettie, who came to the US at age 14, was good at math and had wonderful, thick hair, said her daughter, Ruth. "She was a good seemstress and knitter." Back in Russia, she knitted two pairs of booties for her German Shepherd, "Tzigane," which meant Gypsy in Yiddish or Russian. The dog went out with the booties, and came back without them. "My mother never forgot that," Ruth said.

      Nettie was part of the Scheiner clan "tho her last name was Pollakoff," said Ruth. Her half-sister, Kayla, married a Scheiner. And "Abe's family (Nettie's in-laws) knew the Scheiner family in Europe, and when they came here, they lived near each other."

      Nettie lived on Ludlow in Manhattan when she first arrived. She worked as a hat-maker and went to high school at night, Ruth said.

      From Nettie's niece, Marcelle Pollakoff London: "How we got to Pollakoff from Polliankofsky is that there was a cousin named Max Pollakoff who took (Nettie's brother) Izzy off the boat when he came to America under the name Pollakoff."

      OBITUARY: Dec. 7, 1955 Newsday
    Person ID I758  Hugh Byrne and Nanette Asimov Lines
    Last Modified 17 Apr 2023 

    Father POLIANKOVSKY, Moishe Hersh,   b. Abt 1845, Russia (near Odessa? Oriv?) Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1905, Russia (near Odessa?) Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years) 
    Mother SPRINGBERG, Esther (Big Bubbe),   b. 1855, Russia (Odessa?) Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Dec 1931, Jewish Sanitarium for Incurables Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1879  Russia (Odessa?) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Photos
    Moishe Pollakoff, his wife, Esther, and daughters Annette and Minnie
    Family ID F302  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family SHEINAUS, Louis (Foff) Pinkas,   b. 11 May 1892, Russia (Kishinev, Moldava), then Roumania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Oct 1979, Larchmont, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years) 
    Marriage 21 Mar 1917  68 St. Marks Pl. Manhattan Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    • Sholem Scheiner's home. Witnesses: Ben Scheiner & Izzy Pollakoff
    Children 
     1. SHEINAUS, Ph.D Harold Maurice,   b. 5 Sep 1918, 1409 St. John's Place, Brooklyn Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 May 2019, Arbor Glen Senior Residence, 231 Monroe St. Bridgewater NJ Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 100 years)
     2. SHEINAUS, Ruth Evelyn,   b. 31 Jul 1922, 938 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Feb 2018, New York (Manhattan), New York City-Greater, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 95 years)
    Photos
    At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
    Documents
    1917NettieLousMarriage
    More arrival info on Esther, Minnie & Nettie Polinkowsky_Nov. 1906
    Family ID F40  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Oct 2022 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1889 - Oriv, Ukraine Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 26 May 1892 - Oriv, near Odessa in Ukraine Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 21 Mar 1917 - 68 St. Marks Pl. Manhattan Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1940 - 190-20 111th Ave. Queens, NY Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 6 Dec 1955 - Washington Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Photos
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    Documents

    Headstones
    Nettie Sheinaus, Headstone, Washington Cemetary 2006
    Mother of Ruth Sheinaus Asimov & Harold Sheinaus, in Washington Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY

  • Sources 
    1. [S17] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census, (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2002), Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001-. Indexed by Ancestry.com from microfilmed schedules of the 1930 U.S. Federal Decennial Census. Data imaged from National Archives and Records Administration. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C. Queens, Queens, New York, ED 1245, roll 1600, page 8A, image 1022.0.

    2. [S111] Ruth Sheinaus Asimov.

    3. [S1064] Louis Sheinaus Draft registration card.

    4. [S1060] Esther, Minnie and Nettie Polinkowsky’s NY Passenger arrival document.

    5. [S111] Ruth Sheinaus Asimov, Ruth Asimov. -- but the date was made up bec. the Jewish calendar was different.

    6. [S1061] Nettie Sheinaus headstone.

    7. [S17] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census, (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2002).

    8. [S1058] Nettie (Nessie) Polinkowsky NY Passenger list.

    9. [S557] 1940 US Federal Census.

    10. [S89] Nettie Pollakoff Sheinaus' grave, Washington Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY.

    11. [S1047] Certificate and Record of Marriage for Louis Sheinaus and Nettie Pollakoff (written “Scheinhaus” & “Nellie).



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