Brief Life History of Maria Elisabetha
When Maria Elisabetha Drach was born on 27 November 1692, in Dieburg, Erzbistum Mainz, Holy Roman Empire, her father, Johann Peter Drach, was 23 and her mother, Anna Christina Metzler, was 27. She married Andreas Oberbeck on 30 January 1714, in Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 1 February 1774, in Bedminster Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, at the age of 81, and was buried in Ferndale, Nockamixon Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Anna Catharina Oberbeck in the Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558
- Anna Catharina Oberbeck in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1556
- Elisabeth in entry for Anna Catharina Oberbeck, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
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Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Hersz, Naum.
German: from Middle High German trache, drache ‘dragon’, hence probably a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a dragon, or a nickname for someone with a fierce or fiery temperament.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): adoption of 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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