When Anne Rohr was born on 4 January 1780, her father, Jean Eberhard Rohr, was 42 and her mother, Marie Anne Barbe Schwartz, was 32. She married Michel Wust on 4 February 1819, in Rohrbach-lès-Bitche, Moselle, Lorraine, France. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She died on 19 January 1858, at the age of 78.
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German and Swiss German: topographic name for someone who lived in an area thickly grown with reeds, from Middle High German rōr (a collective singular) or near a well or channel rōr, or a habitational name from any of several places called with this word.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Rohr ‘reed’ (see 1 above).
Norwegian (Røhr): habitational name from the farm name Rør, in Ringsaker from Old Norse reyrr ‘heap of stones’, in Østfold from Old Norse reyrr ‘rush’ (a plant).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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