Samson Joseph Vos died in Amsterdam on 2 January 1836, supposedly in the old age of 109. In 1829, he had been taken in at the a retirement home on Roeterseiland, enclosed by canals, in Amsterdam.
Samson Joseph was born in northern Hesse in Germany. As a child he moved to Amsterdam with his parents.
For most of his life Samson Joseph had been trading in scrap iron.
He had married Rachel, daughter of Abraham Pisota. She had died at the age of 64 in 1797 in Amsterdam. The couple had 7 sons and 3 daughters, and several grand- and great-grandchildren.
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| Rotterdamsche Courant, 7 January 1836 |
The eldest son of Samson Joseph Vos was Abraham Samson Vos who had died in 1816, at the age of 67. His wife was Ester Hartog, and they are the parents of merchant Salomon Abraham Vos, pedlars Aron Abraham Vos and Joseph Abraham Vos, and a daughter named Rachel.
On 30 July 1834 in Amsterdam, Rachel Vos (34) married Samson Joseph Peperwortel (34), widower of Kaatje Elias Kleerenmaker whom he had married in 1824. Rachel's marriage document describes the then 107-year-old Samson Joseph Vos as both paternal grandfather of the bride, and maternal grandfather of the groom.
Samson Joseph Peperwortel was born on 13 March 1800 in Amsterdam as son of Joseph Salomon Peperwortel and Schoontje Samson Vos. Thus, Schoontje Samson Vos was one of the 10 children Samson Joseph Vos, too.
In 1845 in Amsterdam, Samson Joseph Peperworteld married, as his third wife, Rachel Isaac Kroese. With his first wife he had had a son Joseph Samson Peperwortel.
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| The marriage of Rachel Vos and Samson Joseph Peperwortel mentions their common grandfather Samson Joseph Vos |
Sources: WieWasWie.nl, Delpher.nl, Archief.Amsterdam.
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