Brief Life History of Magdalena
When Magdalena Beckner was born in 1743, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Johann Nickolaus Buechner or Beckner, was 39 and her mother, Anna Maria KILIAN, was 36. She married Christoph Fox or Fuchs on 4 June 1765, in York, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Magdalina Beckner - birth: about 1745; Pennsylvania, United States
- Magdalena Bockner, "Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940"
- Magdalena in entry for Maria Susanna Fuchs, "Maryland Births and Christenings, 1650-1995"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. The liberty bell was first rung here to Celebrate this important document.
1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
Name Meaning
German: variant of Böckner (and, in North America, also an altered form of this), a habitational name for someone from any of the places named Böcken, from Middle Low German boke, böke ‘beech tree’.
Americanized form of German Bechner, a very rare variant of Becher 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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