When Christopher Geiger was born on 15 October 1722, in Shamrock Station, Longswamp Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Johann Valentin Geiger, was 36 and his mother, Johanna Frederica Henckel, was 28. He married Maria Barbara Geiger in 1753, in New Hanover Township, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 15 October 1805, in Robeson Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Gibraltar, Robeson Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1752: Berks, Pennsylvania Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Berks, Pennsylvania, United States
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South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a violin player or maker, Middle High German gīger (an agent derivative of gīge ‘violin’), German Geiger.
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Possible Related NamesChristopher lived for many years in a stone house on the banks of the Schuylkill five miles south of Reading at what is now known as Gibraltar. He was an innkeeper and well-to-do. At his death, his es …
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