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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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.
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