When Michael Weiga Breche was born on 20 March 1586, in Butzbach, Friedberg, Hesse, Germany, his father, Johann Lorenz Brecht, was 20 and his mother, Margaretha Dauber or Täuber, was 24. He married Anna Margaretha Weilnauer on 10 October 1608, in Butzbach, Oberhessen, Grand Duchy of Hesse. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 3 November 1668, in his hometown, at the age of 82.
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Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Chaim, Yosef, Baila, Chana, Ephraim, Herschel, Hershel, Meir, Meyer, Pnina, Shimon. German Armin, Oskar, Bernd, Erwin, Gerhard.
English: variant of Brach 2, from Middle English breche, Old English brǣc, brēc ‘newly cultivated land’, the -er suffix denoting an inhabitant.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from an agent derivative of German brechen ‘to break’, an occupational name for someone who crushed hemp or flax, or a nickname for a law breaker or evildoer.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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