When Johannes Jakob Fankhauser was born on 21 March 1745, in Eggiwil, Bern, Switzerland, his father, Ulrich Fankhauser, was 47 and his mother, Elsbeth Baumgarther, was 43. He married Elsbeth Schenk on 21 March 1794, in Eggiwil, Bern, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 25 August 1797, in his hometown, at the age of 52, and was buried in Eggiwil, Bern, Switzerland.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Fritz, Christoph, Erwin, Hanspeter, Kurt.
South German and Swiss German: topographic name for someone living by a Fanghaus, literally ‘capture house’, a building or enclosure in which live animals captured by hunting or trapping were kept.
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