When John Peter Zwicker was born on 26 October 1798, in Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, George Melchoir Zwicker Jr, was 23 and his mother, Anna Maria Catharina Moser, was 30. He married Catherine Heyson in 1824, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1824. He died in June 1877, in Indian Point, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 78.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Fritz, Reinhold, Rudi.
German:
occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle High German zwicken ‘to secure with nails, to peg’. This could denote a leather or textile worker, a cooper, or someone performing a similar function in a wide variety of other industries including, for example, salt extraction and mining.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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