David Handelsman, maternal grandfather of Jenny Goodman (Czarna Gutman)

He was born 12 Sep 1819 in the village of Klementowice in the town of Kurow, and died 15 Oct 1893 in the town of Michow. My grandmother was 12 at the time of his death and also living in Michow so she must have known him. His birth certificate is below, signed in Yiddish by his father Beinish Dawidowicz (Handelsman), age 24, Manes Dawidowicz (Klemensberg) and maternal grandfather Moshe Leybusowicz (Sztul). His mother is given as Esther Moskowicz (Sztul).

There was only one Jewish household in Klementowice, headed by Juda Josfowicz Klemensberg, the maternal grandfather of Esther Moskowicz. There are 15 birth, marriage, and death records of this household from the period 1810-1825, including the 1818 marriage of Beinish and Esther, and the births of two siblings of David - Rosa Czarna in 1822 and Aaron in 1825. Czarna Gutman might have been named after Rosa Czarna. There were also records of the births of two siblings of Esther and as well the deaths of two other siblings.

Manes Dawidowicz Klemensberg was the son of Dawid Manesowicz Klemensberg and Zlota Josfowiczowna Klemensberg. I reckon that Zlota and Juda Klemensberg were siblings, and that Dawid Manesowicz took his wife's surname when they married. If so then Manes Dawidowicz was a cousin of Esther Moskowicz. Juda Klemensberg is named as the head of household (arendarz) in these records. Apparently he was in the wine and liquor business. He was born about 1750 and still alive in 1825 when he legally changed his name to Brandywein.

The name Klemensberg also appears as Klemenstal and Klemenstein in the 1810-1825 records but only as Klemensberg in later records. The name is very rare, and almost all occurrences are from Kurow, with a handful from nearby towns. So it is a safe bet that the name was constructed from the village of Klementowice, and that anyone with this surname was related to Jenny Goodman.