When Babette Sutter was born on 20 September 1884, in Ebnat, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, her father, Johannes Sutter, was 31 and her mother, Margaretha Lieberherr, was 25. She died on 7 February 1894, at the age of 9.
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English, Scottish, South German, and Dutch: occupational name for a shoemaker or cobbler (rarely a tailor), from Middle English suter, souter, Middle High German sūter, sūtære, Middle Dutch sutter (from Latin sutor, an agent derivative of suere ‘to sew’). Compare Souter and Suter .
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