When Thelma Messinger was born on 20 July 1912, in Idaho, United States, her father, Melvin Howard Messinger, was 32 and her mother, Grace Byington, was 21. She died on 20 July 1912, in her hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States.
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English: variant of Messenger .
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a brazier, from an agent derivative of Middle High German messinc ‘brass’, German Messing, from Greek mossynoikos (chalkos) ‘Mossynoecan bronze’, named after the people of northeastern Asia Minor who first produced the alloy.
German: habitational name for someone from Mössingen in Baden-Württemberg (Messingen in the local dialect), which is recorded as Masginga in 789, probably from the personal name Masco + ingen, suffix of relationship.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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