When Catharine Barbara Handel was born on 20 September 1835, her father, Johann Georg Handel, was 28 and her mother, Dorothea Greiss, was 24. She married Daniel Willging on 14 October 1854, in Teplitsa, Bessarabia, Russian Empire. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Russia in 1835. She died on 2 February 1893, at the age of 57.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Arno, Egon, Erwin, Ewald, Florian, Frieda, Hermann, Philo, Siegfried.
German and Jewish (also Händel): from a pet form of the personal name Hans . Sometimes this can be from a pet form of Heinrich, e.g. Heindl, Haindl. Compare Haendel .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a merchant, German Handel ‘trade, commerce’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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