Brief Life History of Johann Henrich
When Johann Henrich Mertz was born on 12 December 1675, in Frankenhausen, Dieburg, Grand Duchy of Hesse, his father, Johann Konrad Marth Martz, was 36 and his mother, Catharina Klippel, was 30. He married Anna Margaretha Elisabetha Poth on 10 June 1704, in Ober Ramstadt, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 24 June 1750, in his hometown, at the age of 74, and was buried in Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery, Dryville, Rockland Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States.
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German: patronymic from a short form of the personal name Martin .
German: variant of Martz . This surname (in any of the possible senses; see also 1 above) is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and Poland.
Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian Merc: occupational name for a grain or salt measurer, from a vernacular form of merec ‘measurer’. Compare Merz .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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