June 10, 1881
Johannes Markus grew up in Stubbendorf while his wife Doris Maria Magdalena came from Lokfeld. Both places are in the region of Stormarn. Johannes Marcus became a butcher and they lived in Gross Barnitz. (Today Gross Barnitz and Lokfeld are both part of Barnitz.)
Johannes Marcus and Doris had 3 children. Their eldest daughter was Auguste, my greatgrandmother. Their 2. daughter was Meta Dora Margaretha and their son was called Johannes Wilhelm Fritz Dührkop.
The parents of Johannes Marcus were farmers. He had at least 3 brothers.
His eldest brother Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm married Christine Margaretha Dorothea Martens and took over the farm of his parents in Stubbendorf.
His brother Claus Friedrich Christian went to Hamburg and became an auctioneer.
His third brother, Johann Hinrich Friedrich crossed the river Elbe and lived in Altona where he opened a grocery store. He was married with Meta Margarethe Dorothea Brodermann (from Wilhelmsburg, now Hamburg-Harburg). Their shop was not far from Johann Jakob Busch's shop so they probably knew each other and they probably introduced my greatgrandparents Auguste and Johann Jakob to each other.
Johann Hinrich Friedrich and Meta Margarethe Dorothea had at least 2 sons, Arthur and Wilhelm.
Arthur worked as a tax inspector and got married with Martha Schenk in 1901. They had at least one son, Johann Heinrich Walter Dührkoop.
Their other son, Wilhelm took over the shop from his father and was married with Erna Meta Hella Frieda Ott. When Anita, my grandmother, returned to Altona after being bombed out, she lived with Wilhelm and his wife for a while.
I don't know much about Doris (sometimes called Dorothea Maria Magdalena). She grew up in Lokfeld. Her parents were farmers. At least for her mother, Maria Margaretha Elisabeth Helms it was already her second marriage. If her father Hans Hinrich Friedrich Dührkop had also been married before I can't say.
Doris had 2 half siblings, Maria Margaretha Dorothea Stau and Johann Hinrich Stau and a brother called Hinrich Friedrich.
As her mother had inherited most of the land from her first husband, her eldest son, Johann Hinrich Stau, from her first marriage inherited the land. Johann Hinrich Stau was the witness not just for the wedding of Doris and Johannes Marcus but also at the wedding of Doris' and Johannes' daughter Auguste.
Later Auguste and her daughter Martha with her 4 little kids and possibly also her sister Meta Dora Margaretha fled to Lokfeld. I don't know where they stayed. Maybe with one of her cousins?
Auguste's sister Meta Dora Margaretha followed Auguste to Altona after her parents had died and married Wilhelm, the younger brother of Auguste's husband Johann Jakob. They had a son called Willi together who later worked for a bank in the Lüneburger Heide region.
Johannes Wilhelm Fritz, the youngest son of Doris and Johannes married Anni Frieda Witt and lived with her in Steinfeld, a place that is also in the region of Stormarn. He was a farmer but unfortunately died during the 1. world war being only 26 years old.
(The family name is sometimes spelled differently, there is Dührkop: Duerkop, Dürkop, Dührkoop, Dührkopp, Dürkopp etc.)
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