When Elsbeth Haag was born on 20 March 1698, in Chirchberg, Thundorf, Thurgau, Switzerland, her father, Hanss Caspar Haag, was 22 and her mother, Margreth Luehti, was 30. She died in Switzerland.
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Revolution in Switzerland. Farmers in occupied territories become free citizens. Centralistic parliamentary republic according to French model. Occupation by French troops and some battles of Napoleon vs. Austria and Russia in Switzerland.
Switzerland is one of the first industrialized countries in Europe.
German and Dutch: topographic name from Middle High German hac ‘enclosure, hedge’, Middle Dutch haghe, or a habitational name from any of the many places called with this word.
South German, Swiss German, and possibly also Dutch: from the ancient Germanic personal name Hago, a short form of any of various compound names beginning with hagan ‘enclosure, protected place, scrub’. See Hagen 2.
Swedish: probably an ornamental adoption of the German name (see above).
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