Levi Windmuller, 1680–1750 (aged 70 years)
- Name
- Levi /Windmuller/
- Given names
- Levi
- Surname
- Windmuller
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1680–1750
Birth: about 1680
— Rheda, Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Death: about 1750 — Rheda, Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
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Birth: Warendorf, Warendorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Death: Warendorf, Warendorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
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1705–1765
Birth: 1705
25
— Warendorf, Warendorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Death: after 1765 — Rheda, Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
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Levi Windmuller of Warendorf applied on April 2, 1735 for a "Letter of Protection" for his son to live in Rheda. The application was approved two days later. He is listed among the Jews in Rheda in 1750 where he moved apparently to be with his son. He appeared to have died soon after since a grandson was named after hime several years later. He had two sons |
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The small township of Ostrup is the first place where the Windmuellers were known to have settled. According to an entry in the church register, the Jew Awram Windmoehl died there in 1547.1 Around 1600, the Jews of Ostrup were expelled1 and the majority found sanctuary in the neighbouring city state of Rheda. It was here c. 1680 that Levi Windmueller was born and it is from that time we can start a more reliable genealogical account of the family. The Jews of Westphalia constituted an unusual community by virtue of their small numbers and isolation. They lived in groups of several families in the smallest of villages. They had almost no access to rabbis and in most cases were unable to build communities large enough to form a minyan (group of 10 men needed for prayers). |