When Anna Alder was born on 26 August 1795, in Schönengrund, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland, her father, Enoch Alder, was 33 and her mother, Anna Barbara Alder, was 33. She married Hans Jakob Meyer on 29 April 1817, in St. Peterzell, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland. She died on 27 March 1852, in her hometown, at the age of 56, and was buried in Schönengrund, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland.
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English: topographic name for someone living by an alder tree or by a group of alders, from Middle English al(d)re, alder.
German: variant of Alter .
German: status name for a senior, from Middle High German althērre ‘(respected) older gentleman’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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