When Karolina Grabatin was born on 10 April 1855, in Romania, her father, Michael Grabatin, was 20 and her mother, Christina Katerina Edinger, was 18. She married Gottlieb Jess about 1875, in Romania. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 2 February 1925, in Dobruja, Romania, at the age of 69.
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The modern Romania was born when the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia merged.
Russia and the Ottomans signed the treaty of San Stefano, granting independence to Serbia. With the Treaty of San Stefano (and subsequent negotiations in Berlin) in the wake of the last Russo-Turkish War, the Ottoman Empire lost its possession of numerous territories including Bulgaria, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia.
Romanians in Constantinople were massacred.
Hungarian: from a Slavic variant of Hungarian Robotos, an occupational name for a serf, a derivative of the Slavic loanword robot ‘physical labor’, ‘compulsory work on a noble estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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