When Catharine Liebeck was born on 10 January 1803, in Lichtenhagen, Rotenburg, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany, her father, Johannes Liebeck, was 26 and her mother, Anna Elisabeth Maser, was 22.
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1776–1847 Male
1780–1837 Female
1803– Female
German: habitational name from a place so named near Flensburg in Schleswig-Holstein.
Germanized or Americanized form of Polish Łebek: nickname from łebek ‘little head’.
German: perhaps also from a pet form of a Slavic personal name formed with the element lub ‘dear; to love’, for example, Lubomir or Luboslav.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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