When Christian Bollinger was born on 19 March 1693, in Schlossrued, Bern, Switzerland, his father, Bernhardt Bollinger, was 24 and his mother, Magdalena Haechler, was 24. He married Susanna Bechler on 12 January 1723, in Winterbach, Landkreis Zweibrücken, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He immigrated to Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America in 1737. He died on 19 November 1753, in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, at the age of 60, and was buried in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1728: Chester, Pennsylvania Colony, British Colonial America 1729: Lancaster, Pennsylvania Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1728: Chester, Pennsylvania Colony, British Colonial America 1729: Lancaster, Pennsylvania Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Swiss German and German: habitational name for someone from any of the three places called Bollingen, in canton Schwyz, in Württemberg and Oldenburg, or from Bohlingen near Lake Constance (which is pronounced and was formerly written as Bollingen).
English (Isle of Wight): variant of Bullinger or Pullinger .
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): artificial construction made by Austrian clerks based on German Bolle ‘bulb, bowl’ to which the ending -inger, frequently found in German names based on toponyms, was added.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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