Maria Felicitas Fanger

Brief Life History of Maria Felicitas

When Maria Felicitas Fanger was born on 26 December 1754, in Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, her father, Johann Wolffgang Fanger, was 45 and her mother, Anna Rosina Thomas, was 27. She married Jacob Kuhn in 1780, in Schifferstadt, Ludwigshafen, Bavaria, Germany. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Bavaria, Germany in 1754. She died on 4 May 1812, in Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, at the age of 57.

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Family Time Line

Jacob Kuhn
1751–1793
Maria Felicitas Fanger
1754–1812
Marriage: 1780
Anna Margaretha Kuhn
1781–1834
Jacob Jakob Kuhn
1782–1847
Johann Heinrich Kuhn
1784–1860
Laurentius Kuhn
1786–1786
Michael Kuhn
1787–1789
Maria Felicitas Kuhn
1790–1798
Gertrudis Kuhn
1793–1798

Sources (30)

  • Maria Felicitas Fanger, "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898"
  • Mariam Felicitatem Fanger im Eintrag für J. Jacobum Kuhn, „Deutschland Heiraten, 1558-1929“
  • Maria Felicitas Fanger, "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898"

Name Meaning

German (also Fänger) and Swiss German: occupational name for a trapper, from an agent derivative of fangen ‘to catch’.

German: habitational name for someone from any of various places called Fang, or a topographic name from Fang ‘enclosure’ for someone who lives in such an area.

French: topographic name derived from Old French fange ‘mud, mire’ (from Old Occitan fanga). This surname is very rare in France.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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