Down the chimney however, the dreaded corpse fell, but when a crowd stormed the house nothing but a partridge (Old German, "Rephuhn" or "Raphuhn") was found in the fireplace. But the "Von den Jungen Raben" (the house shield name of Judengasse ""From the young crow (cf. raven)"") in the signature of Abraham Menahem ha-Kohen Rapa von Port at the end of his Pentateuch commentary, and the additional fact that the coat of arms of the family bears a raven, clearly show that signifies "Rabe" (Middle High German, "Rappe"). The family name, therefore, at the end of the 16th century seems to be clearly established as "Ha-Kohen Rabe". Part of the Polish branch changed their name into Wrona, which is Polish for crow. Another possibility is that these Wrona originated from Verona in Italy. The Yiddish (or Hebrew) transcription of Wrona and Verona are identical (waw resh waw nun he). By the middle of the 17th century authors belonging to the Rapa-Port family were living in Poland and Lithuania, the name having meanwhile undergone the following modifications: Rapiport, Rapoport, Rapperport, and Rappert. The family spread principally from Cracow and Lemberg (Lviv); in the latter place, in 1584, was born the famous Talmudist Abraham Rapoport (called also "Schrenzel"). In 1650 Rapoports lived in Dubno and Krzemeniec; in the 18th century descendants of R. Judah Rapoport are found in Smyrna and Jerusalem. About 1750 there were two Rapoports in Dyhernfurth (Silesia): one named Israel Moses and the other R. Meïr; the former came from Pińczów, the latter from Krotoschin. Both found employment in the printing establishment at Dyhernfurth. A notable scholar of this branch included R. Hayyim Rappaport son of Rabbi Simcha Rappaport who lived in Lviv and died there in 1771. He was one of the key "talmudists" involved in the Frankist debates set up by the Archbishop Dembowski in 1757. Khaim's descendants include the Rapoport-Bick dynasty. Khaim's pedigree is known from his personal and his descendants' writings.