When Johan Jacob Swartzlander was born in 1751, in Bavaria, Germany, his father, Johannes Philip Swartzlander, was 28 and his mother, Maria Magdalena Petzel, was 30. He died in 1751, in At Sea, at the age of 0.
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Americanized form of German Schwarzländer, a habitational name for someone from an area of Bavaria known as Schwarzland ‘the black land’, from Middle High German swarz ‘black’ + land ‘land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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