When Johann Heinrich Spilker was born on 25 May 1795, in Rotenhagen, Halle, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany, his father, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Henrich Spilker, was 21 and his mother, Anna Margareta Ilsabein Butenuth, was 21. He married Catharina Maria Gehring on 7 February 1817, in Werther, Halle, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 21 September 1869, in Rotenhagen, Halle, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany, at the age of 74, and was buried in Werther, Halle, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany.
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North German: occupational name for a maker of spindles, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German spille ‘spindle’.
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