Families: The Butter Family of Galicia

Records of the Butter family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 32 records for the surname Butter (including soundalike names and spelling variants) in the All Galicia Database (the AGD), Gesher Galicia's free searchable collection of genealogical and historical records from the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, which is now eastern Poland and western Ukraine. Here is a sampling of some of the results you can find there:

• Ruchel BUTTER
  1823 death record from Lwów Jewish Deaths (1805-1880)
• Tewel, son of Wolf BEUTER
  1831 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Esriel, son of Wolf BUTER
  1834 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Hersch, son of Wolf BUTER
  1839 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Tewel BUTTER, son of Wolf BUTTER
  1839 death record from Brody Jewish Deaths (1815-1861)
• Jüdel, son of Wolf BUTTER
  1841 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Moses BUTTER, son of Wolf BUTTER
  1842 death record from Brody Jewish Deaths (1815-1861)
• Joseph Salomon, son of Wolf BUTTER
  1844 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Joseph, son of Wolf BUTTER
  1845 death record from Brody Jewish Deaths (1815-1861)
• Lea BOTHI, daughter of and Channe BOTHI
  1845 death record from Lwów Jewish Deaths (1805-1880)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 32 records. The AGD is updated with new records every few months, so check back often to see the latest results.

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Records of the Butter family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 48 search results for the surname Butter at Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website, a few of which are listed below. Note that results listed below are limited to purely Galician sources, such as telephone and business directories from Galician cities, or school records, but they do not include the many other sources available on his website that span all of pre-war Poland. You may need the free .DjVu web browser plugin to view these files.

• Bielsko-Biala Yizkor Book (1973), image 186 {y76}
  ... und sich also Samstags den Bedarf ihrer Viktualien für die ganze Woche besorgen muss: Es drängt sich demnach durch dieses Vorausge-sagte die Überzeugung von selbst auf, dass d) dieser Übelstand der Sache auf den Preis der Dinge, auf die ersten und unentbehrlichsten Lebensbedürfnisse den nachteilig-sten Einfluss nehmen und das Publikum in beiden Staedten die-sen Nachteil tief empfinden muss. Die Butter z.B. welche ein vorzüglicher Gegenstand des Wochen-marktes im Monat Mai und Juni ist, wo sich viele Haushaltungen gewöhnlich den Bedarf schon für den bevorstehenden Winter an-zuschaffen pflegen, würde gewiss um 30, 40, auch 50 Prozent wohlfeiler sein, wenn für beide Städte statt eines, zwei Wochenmärkte existieren möchten.- Die Erfahrung hat gelehrt, dass die Butter, welche anfänglich ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 431 {y94}
  ... us and tried to explain in Russian what was happening. He said to me in Yiddish : "Don’t break your teeth on Russian. Speak your mother tongue." He was a Jew. He told the police to let us go. We were like madmen. We must have looked very frightening, leaping, shouting, haggard skeletons. A lot of boys died because they over-ate in those first few days of freedom. They ate butter by the handful and anything else could find. And their sys-terns couldn’t cope. They got dysentery and died. It was terrible. Others had nervous breakdowns — men I thought were as tough as nails who could take anything in camp. But once the war was all over it hit them. All their families, their homes, everything gone... I don’t believe it could happen again. I think the Jews are different ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 467 {y94}
  ... together and that there will be no war. People are laying up some foodstuffs. This we cannot do, not because, perish the thought, we cannot afford the money, but because we have no room for storing flour, nor do we have a stove for baking bread. We did our best with 5 kgs. salt and 1 kg. sugar.. Never mind, there is no lack of staples such as potatoes, butter and eggs in the vicinity. Today Yutta, the daughter of my late sister Shein-del Haraz, is getting married. Last week I was still worrying about how to get to the wedding. Today I am exempt from such worries — as things are it is inadvisable for Jews to travel. Everywhere soldiers, and civilians too, show the Jews no mercy. I was satisfied with just a "Mazel Tov". I am honestly ...
• Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 249 {y80}
  ... income. As of the year 1765. the net income to the Mayor was 1324 zlotys and the expenses to keep up his office. 346 zlotys. In 1687. the Saymek. or Congress in Warsaw, advised the deputies from Boibcrkc and Yanow that the townships could again forego all taxes, since the townships had suffered from fires which had destroyed all their houses. In order again to help Boibcrkc to better its economic conditions. King August III permitted the town to have four fairs each year instead of two. Each fair lasted for several days, and the benefit to Boiberkc was considerable. In 1773 Boiberkc. along with all of Galicia, was annexed by Austria. In the early years Boibcrkc belonged to the Zlotchowcr District; later the town was made part of the Bcrziancr District. In 1780 ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 451 {y94}
  ... details, yet, in spite of our inability to imagine the horrible events, we were well aware of the terrible tragedy that had overtaken our families. No words can describe the atmosphere at the camp that evening. We had all been orphaned, our loved ones killed, our homes destroyed. Here we were, in the hands of merciless killers who were preparing a similar end for us. Would it not be better to put an end to such a hopeless, meaningless existence ? Like a herd encircled by slavering beasts of prey we huddled together, without a word of comfort for each other. Later on we lay down on the boards for a night that had no end. Each one of us tried to rationalize the tragedy, but it was useless to do so. From every corner rose the sound of weeping and in the camp with the terrible ...

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