Brief Life History of Andreas
When Andreas Kugele was born on 2 May 1885, in Wittenberg, Bessarabia, Russian Empire, his father, Joh. Georg Kugele, was 42 and his mother, Anna Dorothea Widmer, was 37. He died on 11 February 1886, at the age of 0.
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- Andreas Kugele, "World Miscellaneous Births and Baptisms, 1534-1983"
- Andreas Kugele, "Россия, Рождения и крещения, 1755-1917"
Parents and Siblings
1842– Male
1847– Female
Siblings (12)
1867–1874 Male
1869–1935 Female
1871– Male
1874–1876 Male
1877–1894 Male
+7 More Children
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Shlomo, Chaim, Moshe, Yakov. German Erhard, Kurt, Wilhelm, Wolfgang.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a rotund person, from Middle High German kugel(e), German Kugel ‘ball, orb’. The term also denoted a hooded cloak or round-topped mountain, and in some cases the surname may have arisen from either of these senses.
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from Yiddish kugl, a term denoting various kinds of pudding.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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