When Andreas Lind was born on 5 May 1701, in Meiningen, Meiningen, Saxe-Meiningen, Germany, his father, Andreas Lind, was 34 and his mother, Catharina Amstein, was 34. He married Margarethe Heiner on 6 November 1730, in Meiningen, Meiningen, Saxe-Meiningen, Germany. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He died before 1780.
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Scandinavian, English, and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by a lime tree, Scandinavian and Middle English lind. As a Swedish name, it is often of ornamental origin.
North German and Danish: habitational name from any of various places called with Lind ‘lime tree’.
South German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a gentle, mild, tolerant man, from Middle High German lint, linde, Yiddish lind ‘gentle, mild’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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