When Maria Katharina Defren was born on 8 March 1733, in Mutterstadt, Ludwigshafen, Bavaria, Germany, her father, Hans Theobald Defren, was 25 and her mother, Elisabeth Barbara Koch, was 26.
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On Oct 19, 1813, Germany defeats Napolean. The commanding officer for the Allied side was Prince Karl Phillipp Schwarzenberg.
The Congress of Vienna established the German Confederation of 39 independent German states.
On May 25, 1852, the Book of Mormon is published in German.
Some characteristic forenames: Polish Casimir, Feliks, Halina, Janusz, Jerzy.
Polish (Dereń): nickname or topographic name from dereń ‘cornus, dogwood’.
Flemish (mainly De Ren): possibly a variant of Derenne .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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