When Georg Andreas Stier was born on 13 March 1697, in Berwangen, Dettighofen, Bezirksamt Waldshut, Baden, Germany, his father, Johann Andreas Stier, was 35 and his mother, Anna Margareta, was 39. He married Anna Margaretha Luxin on 4 July 1719, in Berwangen, Dettighofen, Bezirksamt Waldshut, Baden, Germany. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 23 February 1755, in his hometown, at the age of 57, and was buried in Berwangen, Dettighofen, Bezirksamt Waldshut, Baden, Germany.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Alois, Erwin, Frieda, Gerhard, Hans, Siegfried, Ulrich, Willi.
German, Jewish (Ashkenazic), and Dutch: from Middle High German, Middle Dutch stier, German Stier ‘bull, bullock’, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble the animal in some way or a metonymic occupational name for someone who tended cattle. This surname is rare in the Netherlands.
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