When Jacob Stauffer was born about 1773, in Upper Salford Township, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, Ulrich Stauffer, was 36 and his mother, Johanna Becker Harley, was 31.
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South German:
occupational name for a maker or seller of beakers or mugs, from an agent derivative of Middle High German stouf ‘beaker, stoup’.
habitational name for someone from any of various minor places called with this word, for example Stauf, Staufen; the reference is to hills thought to resemble a beaker in shape. Compare Stouffer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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