When Michael Metz was born on 23 July 1798, his father, Georg ( ius) Metz, was 38 and his mother, Anna Maria Sedlerin, was 26. He married Christina Voger on 13 November 1821. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters.
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German: from a short form of the female personal name Mechthild, composed of ancient Germanic maht ‘might, strength’ + hild ‘strife, battle’.
German, French (Alsace and Lorraine), and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from Metz in Lorraine, which took its name from a Gaulish tribe, the Mediomatrici; in the name of the place this became abbreviated to Mettis, hence the modern name.
German: from Mätz, a short form of the personal name Matthias (see Matthew ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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