Brief Life History of Johann Anthony
When Johann Anthony Kimmel was born on 17 March 1746, in Eich, Alzey-Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, his father, Johann Philip Kimmel 1 st, was 50 and his mother, Anna Elizabetha Voltz, was 42. He had at least 3 sons and 8 daughters with Anna Margaretha Myers. He died on 17 May 1817, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, at the age of 71.
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- Birth and baptism: 1746 -- #88 Mar. 17/Mar. 20 -- Anthonius -- Joh. Philipp Kimmel and wife Elisabetha -- Anthonius Zarr Von Mettrinsrim and wife Anna Elisabetha
- Johann Anthony Kimmel, "Find A Grave Index"
- Antony Kummel in entry for Catharina Kummel, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
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Name Meaning
German, Jewish (Ashkenazic), and Dutch: from Middle High German kumin, German Kümmel ‘caraway’ (related to Latin cuminum, a word of Oriental origin, like the plant itself), hence a metonymic occupational name for a spicer, literally a supplier of caraway seeds.
English (London): variant of Kemble and Kimble .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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