When Rebecca Feller was born on 7 February 1738, in Ulster, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Johann Philip Feller, was 43 and her mother, Catharina Elizabetha Rau, was 41. She married Samuel Hayner in 1754, in Kingston, Ulster, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1783, in Brunswick, Brunswick, Rensselaer, New York, United States, at the age of 45.
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English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a furrier, a seller of pelts or hides, from an -er agent derivative of Middle English fell, Middle Low German, Middle High German vel, German Fell or Yiddish fel ‘hide, pelt’. See also Fell .
German: variant of Felder .
German: habitational name for someone from a place called Fell near Trier or Fellen, Felln in Bavaria.
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