When Niklaus Aeschlimann was born on 11 September 1796, in Rüegsau, Bern, Switzerland, his father, Niklas Aeschlimann, was 40 and his mother, Christina Hermann, was 36. He married Rosina Lanz on 24 May 1819, in Rohrbach bei Huttwil, Rohrbach, Bern, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died in March 1821, in his hometown, at the age of 24, and was buried in Rüegsau, Bern, Switzerland.
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Revolution in Switzerland. Farmers in occupied territories become free citizens. Centralistic parliamentary republic according to French model. Occupation by French troops and some battles of Napoleon vs. Austria and Russia in Switzerland.
Switzerland is one of the first industrialized countries in Europe.
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 .
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