When Johannes "John" Lamm was born on 1 December 1759, in Heidelberg Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, Johan Peter Lamm, was 48 and his mother, Anna Margaretha Heckert, was 18. He married Anna Margaretha Brossman on 1 December 1791, in Heidelberg Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Heidelberg Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years. He registered for military service in 1789. He died on 28 October 1817, in Bernville, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Wernersville, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States.
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German: from Middle High German lamp ‘lamb’, applied as a nickname for a meek and inoffensive person, or in some instances as a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of the paschal lamb.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name or an artificial from German Lamm, Yiddish lam ‘lamb’ (compare 1 above).
English: variant of Lamb .
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