Brief Life History of Catharine Elizabeth
When Catharine Elizabeth Schauer was born on 23 December 1744, in Tulpehocken Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, her father, Johann Adam Schauer, was 26 and her mother, Anna Elizabeth Koch, was 24. She married Johann Adam Gruber in 1760, in North Heidelberg Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 1 September 1790, in Heidelberg Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Robesonia, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Cath. Elizabeth Schauer, "Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950"
- Catharine Elizabeth Schauer Gruber, "Find A Grave Index"
- Catharina in entry for Johann Joseph Gruber, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
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1752
Historical Boundaries 1752: Berks, Pennsylvania Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Berks, Pennsylvania, United States
1752
Historical Boundaries 1752: Berks, Pennsylvania Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Berks, Pennsylvania, United States
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Name Meaning
German (also Austria) and Swiss German: occupational name for an official inspector, for example the official overseer of a market, from Middle High German schouwer, an agent derivative of schouwen ‘to inspect’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and in some central European countries, e.g. in Czechia, where it is more common in a Slavicized form (see 2 below). In part, it is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ).
Germanized form of Czech and Slovenian Šauer, a surname of German origin (see above and Sauer 2), or of Slovenian Šaver (see Saver 2).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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