When Georg Leonhard Beck was born on 29 April 1868, in Brunn, Östliche Außenstadt, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, his father, Georg Leonhard Beck, was 34 and his mother, Anna Magdalena Albrecht, was 23. He married Margaretha Kalb on 7 April 1889, in Leinburg, Nürnberger Land, Bavaria, Germany. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 8 October 1925, in his hometown, at the age of 57.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream, from northern Middle English bekke ‘stream’ (Old Norse bekkr).
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in northern France named Bec, for example Bec Hellouin in Eure, named with Old Norman French bec ‘stream’, from the same Old Norse root as in 1 above.
English: from the Middle English personal name Becke (Old English Becca or Beocca), of uncertain origin.
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