Margarethe (Margit) Ludmilla Stricker

Birth per genteam.at:

• 1878 Num. 195 Wien Bloch Margarethe Samuel/Feldmesser Fanni

Marriage per genteam.at Index of the Jewish Records of Vienna:

• [Oct 24] 1897 Num. 916 Stadttempel: Bloch, Ludmilla Margarethe (says born at Nyregyhaza, Hungary).
• 1897 Num. 916 Stadttempel Stricker Moriz

"Margarethe's mother had TB and died when Margarethe was 9 months old. She was brought up by her mother's mother . . . . [later] she longed to get away from home. She was very beautiful, her father very rich, a diamond merchant. She had many offers for marriage . . . Moriz Stricker, a leather merchant, was twenty** years her senior. She was 18, he 38 . . . after the first World War, the Blochs became very poor and lost all their money through inflation and depression." -- Edith Silberberg Stricker, Margarethe Bloch Stricker's daughter-in-law, included in memo by Otto Stricker.

Marriage also appears in Budapest records: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-D1G3-D7X?mode=g&i=5&wc...

• *Actually Moric was 18 years her senior (see Moriz Stricker birthdate). See also their marriage record.

Naturalized in New Zealand, 1947, per ancestry.com:

• Name: Margaret Stricker
• Birth Date: 1 Feb 1878 Age: 69
• Birth Place: Vienna, Austria
• Former Nationality: Austrian
• Occupation: Household Duties
• Residence City: Christchurch
• Naturalisation Date: 5 Sep 1947
• File Number: 115/2364
• Certificate Register: 81
• Register Page Number: 232

Death date/place per Margarethe Stricker's NZ granddaughter Ruth Stricker Newlove, to D. Lavender, 2000