When Catharina Geiger was born in 1735, in Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Johann Georg Geiger, was 33 and her mother, Maria Catharina Henckel, was 24. She married Bernard B. RENN jr about 1760, in Frederick, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She died in 1827, in Northumberland, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 92.
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Historical Boundaries: 1772: Northumberland, Pennsylvania Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States
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South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a violin player or maker, Middle High German gīger (an agent derivative of gīge ‘violin’), German Geiger.
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