When Johann Adam Bender was born on 28 July 1790, in Lohrbach, Landkreis Mosbach, Baden, Germany, his father, Johann Georg Bender, was 18 and his mother, Anna Maria Siegmund, was 20. He had at least 7 sons and 7 daughters with Elizabeth Haas. He died on 11 October 1867, at the age of 77.
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German: occupational name for a cooper, a short form of Fassbender . Compare Bainter and Painter .
English (London): metonymic occupational name for an archer or bow maker, from Middle English bender, an agent derivative of benden ‘to bend’ (Old English bendan). Compare Benbow .
Hungarian: from bender ‘curl’, hence a nickname for someone with curly hair.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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