Brief Life History of Anna Felicia
When Anna Felicia Praetorius was born in 1727, in Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, her father, Christian Detlef Pretorius, was 26 and her mother, Sophia Dorothea Petersen, was 26. She married Hans Hinrich Clasen on 13 February 1750, in Damshagen, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 6 February 1799, in Schlagsdorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, at the age of 72, and was buried in Schlagsdorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany.
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- Telicitas Clasen in entry for Sophia Dortÿ Clasen, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
- Felicitas Clasen in entry for Catharina Elisabeth Clasen, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
- Anna Felicitas Clasen in entry for Christian Friedrich Clasen, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
Spouse and Children
1713–1779 Male
1727–1799 Female
Children (6)
1751– Male
1753– Female
1756– Female
1759– Female
1762–1763 Male
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Parents and Siblings
1702–1740 Male
1702– Female
Siblings (2)
1723–1803 Female
1727–1799 Female
Name Meaning
Dutch and German: humanistic name derived from Latin praetor, the title of various officials in Republican and Imperial Rome, sometimes adopted as the Latinized form of Dutch De Preter, an occupational name for a supervisor, commissioner or curator, or of any of various German surnames meaning ‘leader’ or ‘headman’ (see Prator ). The surname Pretorius is by far most common in South Africa; in the Netherlands and Germany it is very rare. In North America, it is also an altered form of the more common German variant Prätorius.
History: The progenitor of the South African bearers of the surname Pretorius was Johannes Pretorius, one of the earliest Dutch settlers in the Dutch Cape Colony. He was born in 1642 in Ouddorp in the Dutch province of South Holland to Wessel Schulte, known also as Wessel(ius) Pretorius. Johannes Pretorius settled in the Dutch Cape Colony in 1669, where he died in 1694. The city of Pretoria, executive capital of South Africa, is named after one of the most prominent of his descendants, Andries Pretorius (1798–1853), a leader of the Boers.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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