When Catharina Ruesch was born on 1 March 1806, in Sankt Margarethen, Münchwilen, Thurgau, Switzerland, her father, Hans Ulrich Ruesch, was 32 and her mother, Anna Catharina Fischer, was 29. She died on 23 April 1839, at the age of 33, and was buried in Sankt Margrethen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Aloys, Hartwig, Jurgen, Kurt, Merwin.
German and Swiss German (Rüsch): variant of Rusch 1 and a habitational name from a place called Rüsch in Schleswig-Holstein.
German (Rüsch): from a short form of any of various personal names formed with the Old High German element hrōd ‘fame, renown’. Compare Rusch 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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