When Barbara Hoffmann was born on 22 March 1722, in Schottikon, Elsau, Zürich, Switzerland, her father, Hans Heinrich Hoffmann, was 12 and her mother, Elisabeth Bachmann, was 9. She married Rudolf Ernst on 10 November 1750, in Wiesendangen, Zürich, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died on 22 August 1779, at the age of 57, and was buried in Elgg, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Gerhard, Hans, Heinz, Otto, Dieter, Klaus, Wolfgang, Armin, Manfred, Ernst, Erwin.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): status name for a steward on a farm or estate, from German Hof(f) ‘farm, manor farm, courtyard’ + Mann ‘man’. Originally, this was a status name for a farmer who owned his own land as opposed to holding it by rent or feudal obligation, but the name soon came to denote the manager or steward of a manor farm, in which sense it is frequent also among Jews, since many Jews held managerial positions on non-Jewish estates. This form of the surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Poland, Denmark, Hungary, Czechia, and the Netherlands. Compare Hofman , Hofmann , Homann , and Huffman .
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