When Hans Conrad Schoop was born on 9 July 1742, in Schocherswil, Thurgau, Switzerland, his father, Hans Jacob Schoop, was 39 and his mother, Dorathea Rütershauser, was 25. He married Anna Katherina Bruschwailer on 4 May 1773, in Amriswil, Thurgau, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters.
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Revolution in Switzerland. Farmers in occupied territories become free citizens. Centralistic parliamentary republic according to French model. Occupation by French troops and some battles of Napoleon vs. Austria and Russia in Switzerland.
Switzerland is one of the first industrialized countries in Europe.
Civil war brings Helvetic Republic to an end. French emperor Napoleon enforces a constitution negotiated under his "mediation".
North German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a maker of shovels, ladles, and the like, from Middle Low German schope, Middle Dutch scho(e)pe ‘shovel, ladle’.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Schupp .
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