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Not much is known about
Elijah Goldberg
He lived and died in Russia,
though was not necessarily
born there. His profession is listed on his son's marriage certificate as a 'general trader'.

Isaac Goldberg > Gilbert

Isaac Goldbert/Gilbert




Below are the 8 children
of Isaac and Nora Gilbert:


Isaac was born in 1865 in Kovno Gabernia (Kovno Governorate - Russian name or Kauno gubernija in Lithuania as it was then), a principal administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire. It seems to have been cut fom the Western part of Vilna Governorate in 1843. The family name was apparently Giller (to 'hide' the Jewish Goldberg?) He escaped from the Tsar's army in 1881, finally ending up in Leeds, England where at the age of 25 he married Leonora ('Nora') Crown. He worked as a tailor at Cohn and Wilkes, Manchester. Eventually all the family moved to the U.S., all taking the name of Gilbert. Isaac died in 1928 of unknown causes in San Francisco.
Lenora Crown Gilbert
Leonora Crown

See more details of Nora and the Crown family by clicking on her picture
Gertrude Gilbert Crown
Gertrude
1892-1965
Maurice Gilbert
Maurice
1894-1975
Harry Gilbert
Harry
1896-1984
Jack Gilbert
Marcus 'Jack'
1898-?
Sidney Gilbert
Sidney
1900-1988
Reuben Gilbert
Reuben
1902-2003
Cyril Gilbert
Cyril
1904-1981
Herman Gilbert
Herman
1906-1986
married her
cousin
Joseph Crown
Joe Crown
(1889-1968)
Their son Mervyn
died at the age
of four. Their
daughter Fay,
b. 1930,
married Hyman Klein
(1910-1992)
and has a
son Michael,
b. 1969. Fay lives in Arizona.
married
Beatrice Shatz
Beaty Gilbert
They had two
children, Marjorie (d. 2013) and
Bruce Gilbert (married Mirna and later Roberta).
Marjorie married
David Karp (b. 1917, d. 2015).
Their children are
Larry Karp, b. 1948,
married to Francy
Kaplan, 2 children:
Howard, b. 1976
and Sherri b. 1978.

Rick Karp, b. 1951, married Janet Goheen. Their children are Adrianna, b. 1985 and David b. 1988
married Iva Zablonsky.
Iva Gilbert
(d. July, 2000)
Their son David, b.1936, married Carol Birnbaum. They have one daughter, Valerie,
b. 1963.
After coming to America it was said Jack went to Hollywood. No one in the family knows any more about him. Reuben's first wife, Lydia Schatz died after giving birth to their daughter Donna in 1936. Donna married Larry Campbell (d. 2009). She lives in Pacifica, CA. They produced 2 sons and a daughter: Larry b.1958, married Paula Rayo, children: Dana, 1988, Sean, 1992 and Lindsay, 1994. Larry succumbed to a brain tumor on June 16, 2009.

Michael, 1959, divorced from Dena Sale, has two daughters, Shelby, 1991 and Melanie, 1993.

Kimberly, 1961 lives in Seattle with her husband Ryan Hamilton and their daughter Perry, b. 1996 and son Lee, b. 1998.


In 1939 Reuben married Ruth DeLue.
Ruth Gilbert at 48
Their daughter, Joyce (now Jessica) was born in 1943. Jess's daughter Caren, 1963, has two sons, Adrian, 1987 and Jeremy, 1992.
married Ethel Bloom
Ethel Gilbert
lived in San Mateo, California. Their son Victor, 1941 (d. 2019), lived in San Francisco. Their daughter Judie was married to Bob Rief (now divorced) and has two children, Debbie, 1969 and Brian, 1972\.
Herman and his first wife, Lena Samuels had son Norman, 1948 who married Sandra Shaffer. They have two children, Dana, 1976 and Lisa, 1979. Herman later married Estelle Levine. They lived in Chicago.