When Cornelis Gerritsz Bergman was born on 17 January 1701, in Valkenburg, South Holland, Netherlands, his father, Gerrit Dammasz Bergman, was 15 and his mother, Adriana Leendertse Vijverberg, was 11698. He married Trijntje Gouwens on 25 January 1722, in Schiedam, South Holland, Netherlands. He died in 1751, in Baarn, Utrecht, Netherlands, at the age of 50.
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England, Austria, Saxony and the Netherlands formed an alliance against Russia.
Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from berg ‘mountain, hill’ + man ‘man’, or a habitational name for someone from a place named with the word berg. The surname, which is also found in Finland, may also be of German (compare 3 below) or Dutch (see 2 below) origin.
Dutch: topographic name denoting an upland dweller, from berg (see Berg ) ‘mountain, hill’ + man ‘man’.
Altered form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Bergmann . This form of the surname is also found in Czechia, Poland, and some other European countries.
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