When Johann Adam Schleicher was born in 1715, in Isenburg, Horb, Württemberg, Germany, his father, Jois Georgy Schleicher, was 31 and his mother, Eva Catharina Muellerin, was 26. He married Mariae Eva Muellerin in 1742, in Kreis Mosbach, Baden. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died in 1774, in Kamyshin Uyezd, Saratov, Russian Empire, at the age of 59.
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Treaty of Nystad ends Great Northern War with Sweden and establishes Russian presence on Baltic Sea. Peter the Great proclaims Muscovy the Russian Empire. Holy Synod replaces patriarchate.
Russia gains control of southern shore of Caspian Sea.
War with Ottoman Empire ends with Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Erwin, Hannelore, Helmut, Horst, Juergen, Jurgen, Mathias, Volkmar, Wenzel.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a furtive or stealthy person, from an agent derivative of Middle High German slīchen, German schleichen ‘to creep silently’.
German: habitational name for someone from a place called Schleich on the Mosel river.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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