Brief Life History of Anna Catharina
When Anna Catharina Kiel was born on 8 November 1754, in Elvershausen, Northeim, Hanover, Prussia, Germany, her father, Johann Christoph Kiel, was 34 and her mother, Catharina Maria Brand, was 21. She married Heinrich Andreas Rode on 15 January 1775. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She was buried in Elvershausen, Northeim, Lower Saxony, Germany.
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North German: in some cases, probably a habitational name from the city of Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein, but more likely a topographic name for someone living by a long narrow bay or area of sheltered water, from Middle Low German kīl ‘wedge’, the word from which the city derives its name.
German: from Middle Low German, Middle High German kīl ‘wedge’, applied as a metonymic occupational name or as a pejorative nickname for a ruffian or a bumbler.
German and Dutch: from a short form of the personal name Kilian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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