Brief Life History of Johann Jakob
When Johann Jakob Decker was born on 2 March 1691, in Tübingen, Württemberg, Germany, his father, Johannes Decker, was 36 and his mother, Agatha Kehrer, was 34. He married Catharina Gugel on 8 November 1718, in Pliezhausen, Tübingen, Württemberg, Germany. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 13 May 1732, in Pliezhausen, Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, at the age of 41.
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- Hanß Jacob Deeker, „Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971“
- Jacob Decker, "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971"
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German: occupational name for a roofer (thatcher, tiler, slater, or shingler) or a carpenter or builder, from an agent derivative of Middle High German decke ‘covering’, a word which was normally used to refer to roofs, but sometimes also to other sorts of covering; modern German Decke still has the twin senses ‘ceiling’ and ‘blanket’.
Dutch: variant of Dekker , cognate with 1 above. Compare De Decker .
English (London): variant of Dicker .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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