When Anna Barbara Etter was born on 19 December 1765, in Altnau, Thurgau, Switzerland, her father, Hans Konrad Etter, was 35 and her mother, Anna Maria Haeberli, was 22. She lived in Zuben, Obwalden, Switzerland in 1766. She died on 22 March 1766, in Altnau, Thurgau, Switzerland, at the age of 0.
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South German and Swiss German: topographic name for someone who lived near the boundary fence of a village, from Middle High German eter ‘woven boundary fence’.
North German: from Middle Low German etter ‘uncle’ or ‘cousin’.
Swiss German: from Middle High German etter ‘cousin’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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