Brief Life History of Johannes
When Johannes Peter was born on 6 February 1803, in Berg am Irchel, Zürich, Switzerland, his father, Hans Jacob Peter, was 46 and his mother, Barbara Vaterlaus, was 34. He died on 3 September 1804, at the age of 1, and was buried in Berg am Irchel, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Johanness Peter, "Switzerland, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records, 1418-1996"
- Johanness Peter, "Switzerland, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records, 1418-1996"
Parents and Siblings
1756–1840 Male
1768–1840 Female
Siblings (3)
1793–1793 Female
1798–1893 Female
1803–1804 Male
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Kurt, Otto, Ernst, Fritz, Heinz, Helmut, Horst, Kaspar, Klaus, Siegfried, Wolfgang.
English, Scottish, German, Dutch, French (Alsace and Lorraine), Czech (Moravian), Slovak, Croatian, and Slovenian; Hungarian (Péter): from the personal name Peter (Greek Petros, from petra ‘rock’). The personal name was popular throughout Christian Europe in the Middle Ages, having been bestowed by Christ as a byname on the apostle Simon bar Jonah, the brother of Andrew. The name was chosen by Christ for its symbolic significance (John 1:42, Matt. 16:18); Saint Peter is regarded as the founding head of the Christian Church in view of Christ's saying, ‘Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church’. In Christian Germany in the early Middle Ages this was the most frequent personal name of non-ancient Germanic origin until the 14th century. In North America, this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages, for example Czech Petr , Polish Piotr and Pietr, Albanian Pjetri (from the personal name Pjetër, definite form Pjetri), and also their derivatives (see examples at Peterson ). It has also been adopted as a surname by Ashkenazic Jews.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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