When Amália Theobald was born on 21 September 1919, in Cerro Largo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, her father, Jacob Theobald, was 29 and her mother, Catharina Luiza Hoffmann, was 29. She married Victor Floriano Karnikowski on 15 October 1947, in Cerro Largo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She died on 29 November 2004, in her hometown, at the age of 85, and was buried in Cerro Largo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
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German and English: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements theud ‘people, race’ + bald ‘bold, brave’. The English surname represents a learned form, re-created from French Théobald. The usual medieval forms of the name in English and German were Tebald and Tibalt (Old French Teobaud, Tibaut). Compare Dewald and Diebold .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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