Brief Life History of Maria Eva
When Maria Eva Messer was born in 1820, in Karlsruhe, Kherson, Russian Empire, her father, Anton Bernhard Messer, was 34 and her mother, Susanna Katharina Muth, was 37. She married Andreas Renner in 1837, in Karlsruhe, Kherson, Russian Empire. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died from 1852 to 1870, in Russian Empire.
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1831
Polish uprising crushed by forces of Nicholas I.
1837
First Russian railroad, from St. Petersburg to Tsarskoye Selo, opens. Aleksandr Pushkin, foremost Russian writer, dies in duel.
1853
Russia fights Britain, France, Sardinia, and Ottoman Empire in Crimean War. Russia forced to accept peace settlement dictated by its opponents.
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a cutler, from Middle High German mezzer ‘knife’, from Old High German mezzirahs, mezzisahs, a compound of maz ‘food, meat’ + sahs ‘knife, sword’. The Jewish name is from German Messer ‘knife’ or Yiddish meser.
Dutch: occupational name from Middle Dutch messer ‘cutler’, an agent derivative of meste ‘knife’.
German: occupational name for an official in charge of measuring the dues paid in kind by tenants, from an agent derivative of Middle High German mezzen ‘to measure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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