Brief Life History of Magdalena
When Magdalena Finger was born on 25 August 1751, in Schwarzenegg, Unterlangenegg, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Hans Finger, was 32 and her mother, Magdalena Farni, was 27. She had at least 2 sons and 2 daughters with Jakob Muller. She died on 25 January 1792, at the age of 40, and was buried in Thun, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Madle Finger in entry for Anna Müller, "Switzerland, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records, 1418-1996"
- Magdalena Finger in entry for Anna, "Switzerland, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records, 1418-1996"
- Magdalena Finger in entry for Hans Müller, "Switzerland, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records, 1418-1996"
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Name Meaning
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle English, Middle High German, Yiddish finger, modern German Finger ‘finger’, probably applied as a nickname for a man who had some peculiarity of the fingers, such as possessing a supernumerary one or having lost one or more of them through injury, or for someone who was small in stature. As a Jewish name, it can also be an artificial name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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