When Magdalena Gerber was born on 30 September 1725, in Schwarzenegg, Unterlangenegg, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Niclaus Gerber, was 26 and her mother, Catharina Aebersold, was 35. She married Michael Muller on 11 February 1759. She died on 6 December 1787, at the age of 62.
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German, Swiss German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a tanner, from Middle High German gerwer (from Old High German (ledar) garawo ‘leather preparer’), German Gerber.
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