When Elsbeth im Baumgarten was born on 23 September 1742, in Brienz, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Johannes im Baumgarten, was 34 and her mother, Elsbeth Matthyer, was 40.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Erwin, Hans, Horst, Klaus, Otto, Ewald, Lothar, Wilhelm.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name or metonymic occupational name for someone who owned or lived by an orchard or was employed in one, from Middle High German boumgarte ‘orchard’ (a compound of boum ‘tree’ + garte ‘enclosure’), German Baumgarten. There are also several villages named with this word, and so in some cases the surname may have originated as a habitational name from one of these. As a Jewish name, it is mainly artificial.
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