Identified Woman
Tree Mergam bat Mordechai is mentioned. The wife of Marum Gugenheimb, Jekoff's son and daughter of Marx (Süesskündt), Hönlin in Oettingen. Marum was ultimately ruined by a loan he had guaranteed for his father-in-law. Mergam died as a widow destitute.

Our sources - administrative and court records - very rarely mention women usually in regards to family linkages between men, around significant dowries, and dealing with estates. Occasionally widows continue their husbands' business, but they simply are recorded as "widow of ...". A few times women were fined for minor infractions. Women are rarely called by their names in official documents. Commonly they are designated "wife of ..." or "daughter of ..". It is possible however, that the 5000 records contain more clues relating to women, than we have detected to date.



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