When Anna Maria Altgelt was christened on 14 January 1733, in New York City, New York County, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Johannes Wilhelm Altgelt, was 43 and her mother, Anna Maria Ehrenstein, was 41.
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variant of Anne , in common use as a given name in most European languages. Among people with a classical education, it has from time to time been associated with Virgil's Aeneid, where it is borne by the sister of Dido , Queen of Carthage. This Phoenician name may ultimately be of Semitic origin, and thus related to the biblical Anne. However, the connection, if it exists, is indirect rather than direct.
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