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Friederike (Rieke) Samuel was born in Vorbrück near Walsrode in 1811. At the beginning of the 1830s, she married Magnus Marcus senior, who came from Walsrode. Over the next twenty years, she gave birth to ten children, most of whom were born in Walsrode. However, the family also lived in the Hadeln region (at the mouth of the Elbe) and in Bevensen, south of Lüneburg.

Around 1870/71, Friederike and Magnus Marcus senior came to Lüneburg together with most of their children. Their adult sons Magnus junior, Samuel and Wolf Marcus either worked with their father or set up their own businesses in Lüneburg. Like their parents, they also founded large families.

In the following years, the Marcus family seems to have risen socially: If the job title in the Lüneburg address book for Magnus Marcus is initially listed as “junk dealer”, from the 1880s it reads “merchant”. He presumably founded the family"s first shoe store, which was later followed by many more

Friederike died in Lüneburg in 1880, her widower Magnus Marcus senior in 1882. Both were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Lüneburg.

Sources and info:

Reuven Stern: A Genealogy Report for Motje Marcus (myheritage), 2016

Stephan Heinemann, Jüdisches Leben in den nordostniedersächsischen Kleinstädten Walsrode und Uelzen (Schriftenreihe des Bundes der Freunde des Heidemuseums Walsrode e.V., Band 14), Walsrode 2001

Aus der Geschichte der jüdischen Gemeinden im deutschen Sprachraum: Walsrode, Niedersachsen

Name variants: Rieke