When Magdalena Kästli was born on 19 January 1664, in Sankt Margrethen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, her father, Wilhelm Kästli, was 32 and her mother, Catharina Bentzinger, was 29. She married Jacob Rüesch on 14 February 1686, in Sankt Margrethen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She died about 5 March 1737, in her hometown, at the age of 73, and was buried in Sankt Margrethen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.
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German: from an Alemannic pet form of Kast 2.
South German (Kästle): from a pet form of Arbogast .
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