When Maria Anna Apollonia Ochsner was born about 1741, in Einsiedeln, Schwyz, Switzerland, her father, Franz Meinrad Ochsner, was 31 and her mother, Anna Maria Kälin, was 29. She married Josef Mauriz Birchler about 1762, in Einsiedeln, Schwyz, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died about 1810, in her hometown, at the age of 71.
German (also Öchsner): occupational name for someone who looked after or worked with oxen, from an agent derivative of Middle High German ohse ‘ox’. Compare Oechsner .
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