When Anna Gerdraudt Fastenrath was born in 1739, in Starkenburg, Starkenberg, Altenburger Land, Thuringia, Germany, her father, Christian Johann Fastenrath, was 40 and her mother, Anna Veronica von Meinborn, was 27. She married Johann Nikolaus Berghaus in 1754, in Hesse, Germany. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She died in 1792, in New Cornwall, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 53.
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variant of Anne , in common use as a given name in most European languages. Among people with a classical education, it has from time to time been associated with Virgil's Aeneid, where it is borne by the sister of Dido , Queen of Carthage. This Phoenician name may ultimately be of Semitic origin, and thus related to the biblical Anne. However, the connection, if it exists, is indirect rather than direct.
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