When Maria Elisabetha Schindler was born on 7 October 1816, in Tumringen, Lörrach, Kreis Lörrach, Baden, Germany, her father, Johann Martin Schindler, was 38 and her mother, Anna Maria Gempp, was 37. She married Johann Jakob Pfunder on 13 December 1849, in Tumringen, Lörrach, Kreis Lörrach, Baden, Germany. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 16 February 1898, in Rockville, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Grove Hill Cemetery, Rockville, Vernon, Tolland, Connecticut, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
"In 1726, Samuel Grant traded his farm in Bolton for 500 acres (2.0 km2) in the northern part of Bolton. This included the area which is now known as ""Rockville"" and for about the next century it was a nameless village"
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Kurt, Otto, Guenter, Reinhardt, Frieda, Horst, Rainer, Bernhard, Florian, Fritz, Gerd.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for someone who made or laid wooden roof tiles, from an agent derivative of Middle High German schindel, German Schindel ‘shingle’.
South German: habitational name for someone from any of the places called Schindel or Schindeln (see Schindel ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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