When Peter Iven was born on 3 September 1814, in Bedburg, Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, his father, Joannes Iven, was 52 and his mother, Maria Sybilla Khaemer, was 45. He married Anna Gertrude Muenks on 8 April 1844, in Cole, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Linn Township, Osage, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Crawford Township, Osage, Missouri, United States in 1870. He died on 15 May 1876, in Loose Creek, Osage, Missouri, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Linn Township, Osage, Missouri, United States.
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Irish (North Ulster) and Scottish: shortened and altered form of Gaelic Mag Dhuibhín, ‘son of Duibhín’, a patronymic from a personal name meaning ‘little black one’, or Mag Dhuibhfhinn, ‘son of Duibhfhionn’, a patronymic from a personal name composed of dubh ‘black’ + fionn ‘fair’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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