Schija Ringel identified as "fish dealer" in a 1902 record
Besides Hirsch Ringel in Nisko and Jakob Ringel in Hamburg, Schija had one other brother, Juda Leib Ringel, who like him lived in Berlin.
Juda, a butcher, was married to Pessel Apfelbaum, originally from Rzeszow. They had seven children born between 1880 and 1898. Juda died the following year, in 1898, at age 40, when most of his children were still minors.
It may be that Juda's brother in Berlin, our great-grandfather Schija Ringel, played a guardian role in the lives of the children.
In this image, we see the 1902 death record for 16-year-old Moses Ringel, a son of the predeceased Juda Ringel. Reporting the death to the authorities is the boy's uncle, the fish handler Schija Ringel, living at Alte Schönhauser Allee 39/40.
That's Schija's signature at the bottom of the page.
