Anna Margaretha Elisabetha Poth

Brief Life History of Anna Margaretha Elisabetha

When Anna Margaretha Elisabetha Poth was born on 3 December 1680, in Nieder-Modau, Ober-Ramstadt, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, her father, Johannes Poth, was 34 and her mother, Anna Sabina Schuchmann, was 20. She married Johann Henrich Mertz on 10 June 1704, in Ober Ramstadt, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 22 March 1746, in Frankenhausen, Dieburg, Grand Duchy of Hesse, at the age of 65.

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Family Time Line

Johann Henrich Mertz
1675–1750
Anna Margaretha Elisabetha Poth
1680–1746
Marriage: 10 June 1704
Johann Peter Mertz
1705–1799
Elisabetha Margarethe Mertz
1706–
Johann Georg Mertz
1708–1788
Johann Heinrich Mertz
1709–1788
Margaretha Barbara Mertz
1711–1787
Anna Juliana Mertz
1712–
Anna Catharina Mertz
1714–
Anna Maria Elisabetha Mertz
1716–
Johann Wendel Mertz
1718–1721
Johann Christoph Mertz
1720–1801
Johann Jost Mertz
1724–1764

Sources (5)

  • A. Marg. Elis. Poth, "Deutschland Geburten und Taufen, 1558-1898"
  • Familie Schäfer-Merz
  • Familie Schäfer-Merz

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Rudi, Detlef, Konrad, Kurt, Mathias.

North German (Westphalia):

topographic name for someone who lived by a small pool, from Middle Low German pōt ‘puddle, pool’, or a habitational name from any of several places so named in northern Germany.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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