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Well, that is all interesting.
It seems likely that we NYC Yavners were related to Morris Yavner of Montreal, since there is a memory of them in our family. It seems to me possible that Morris is an Anglicized form of Mortsch, the name of the father of Moshemendel.
But since there is no memory of Boston or VA Yavners (other than our Barney Yavner, one of the five brothers, who did move there in old age), it would seem we are more distantly related.
Your mention of 'Tante Mulka' was quite interesting. That is an important name in our family. As the story goes, Moshemendel had five sons. Only the eldest son was safe from the draft into the Czar's army (for twenty-five years service), so the parents tried to place one of the younger boys with a spinster or childless aunt, Shana Mulka. However, the brothers were so attached to each other that they refused to separate. (Until old age the three NYC brothers, Phipps, Willy and Louie got together on Staten Island once a week to play cards). The oldest brother Barney probably left for NYC to keep the next son out of the army. The three brothers all left together, I believe, in 1882, then the widowed mother and youngest son, Jack, came the next year.
About that time aunt Shana Mulka died, so some of the brothers named daughters after her. That would be Jenny, daughter of William and Molly daughter of Phipps. The name has continued down to the youngest generation. Jenny, now deceased, has a g-granddaughter Mollie --- both with Hebrew name Shana Mulka.
One more note. So far it appears that the only Yavner family to have included an e in the name was Barney "Yavener." As you probably know, the Hebrew has a 'half vowel' between the v and n, so that spelling is legitimate.
Matthew Yavner Wood
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