When Eva Reitenauer was born on 1 August 1647, in Gondiswil, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Hans Reitnower, was 38 and her mother, Cathrina Schär, was 36. She died before 1750.
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All European peace treaty formally accepts Switzerland as an independent nation.
German and Austrian German: topographic name for someone living by an overgrown water meadow, from Middle High German rīs ‘undergrowth’ + ōwe ‘water meadow’; or a habitational name for someone from a place called Reisenau near Salzburg, Austria.
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