When William Klee was born about 1790, in Bern Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Abraham Clay or Klee, was 53 and his mother, Maria Catherine Grim, was 46. He had at least 3 sons and 2 daughters with Maria Noacker.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Ernst, Hans, Hellmut, Helmut, Horst, Kurt, Manfred, Otmar, Otto, Wolfgang.
German: possibly a nickname for a clover farmer, from Klee ‘clover’. Compare Clay and Clee .
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