When Johann Wilhelm Hager was born in 1725, in Lohnsfeld, Kirchheimbolanden, Bavaria, Germany, his father, Simon Heinrich Hager, was 41 and his mother, Hanna 'Anna' Catherina Luisa Heibrock 'Heibrock', was 29. He married Elizabetha Maria Schmalenberger in 1750. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 5 December 1773, in Lincoln, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 48.
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Dutch and North German: from an ancient Germanic personal name composed of hag ‘hedge, enclosure’ + hari, heri ‘army’.
Dutch and North German: from an ancient Germanic personal name, Hadugar, composed of the elements hadu ‘combat, strife’ + gari (from garwa) ‘ready, eager’ or gari ‘spear’.
German (also Häger): topographic name for someone who lived by a hedged or fenced enclosure, Middle High German hac. Compare Hoge .
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