When Henrietta Elmire Dorothea Aeschlimann was born on 14 October 1806, in Langnau im Emmental, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Daniel Aeschlimann, was 31 and her mother, Marie Henriette Thiébaud, was 26.
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Americanized form of Swiss German Aeschlimann: topographic name for someone who lived near a (small) ash tree or ash wood, from Esche (Old High German asc) ‘ash’ + the diminutive suffix -li + -mann ‘man’, or perhaps a derivative of Öschli, a pet form of a vernacular form of the personal name Oswald . Compare Aschliman , Eschliman , Eshelman , and Eshleman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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