When Maria Elisabetha Amos was born on 27 February 1736, in Wörsbach, Niederkirchen, Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, her father, Peter Amos, was 30 and her mother, Anna Catharina Buhl, was 26. She married Johann Philip Walther on 25 January 1752, in Haardt, Neustadt an der Haardt, Bavaria, Germany. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany in 1736. She died on 21 April 1805, in Deutsch Altfratautz, Bezirk Radautz, Bukowina, Austria, at the age of 69.
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The Battle of Banja Luka. The Turkish army beats the Austrian army.
Turkey and Austria sign a peace treaty with Austria. Belgrade is ceded to the Turks.
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English and Scottish: variant of Amis , assimilated in spelling to the Biblical name (see 2 below). It occurs chiefly in southeastern England.
Jewish, German, English, Scottish, and Welsh: from the Hebrew personal name Amos, of uncertain origin, in some traditions connected with the Hebrew verb amos ‘to carry’, and assigned the meaning ‘borne by God’. This was the name of a Biblical prophet of the 8th century BC , whose oracles are recorded in the Book of Amos. This was one of the Biblical names taken up by Puritans and Nonconformists in the 16th–17th centuries, too late to have had much influence on surname formationm in Britain, except in Wales.
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