When Johannes Engel Weller was born in 1734, in West Camp, Ulster, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Johann Frederick Weller, was 22 and his mother, Anna Margaretha Koch, was 19. He married Catharine Anna Minkin about 1755. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1781, in New York, United States, at the age of 47.
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English (Surrey, Sussex, and Kent): topographic name for someone who lived by a spring, stream, or man-made well, from Middle English weller, willer, an agent derivative of Middle English welle (in southern England) and wille (in south western England), from Old English wella, well(e), wiella, wielle, willa, wyll(a), wylle. This type of name, a topographic term + -er, is particularly typical of Sussex and its neigbouring counties.
English: occupational name for someone who casts metal or who boils salt, from Middle English weller, willer, a derivative with -er of Old English wellan, wiellan ‘to boil’. Compare 5 below.
North German: variant of Welle , cognate with 1 above.
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