When Anna Margreta Acker was born on 21 July 1715, her father, Johann Wendel Acker, was 29 and her mother, Anna Maria Seibel, was 22. She married Conrad Sollinger on 9 August 1740, in Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 24 September 1744, in Bavaria, Germany, at the age of 29.
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Dutch and German: topographic name from Middle High German and Middle Dutch acker ‘(cultivated) field’ (a cognate of the English word acre), hence a byname for a peasant (see Ackerman ). Compare Achor , Acre , Acree , and Auker .
English: habitational name from Castle Acre, South Acre, or West Acre in Norfolk; or a topographic name for someone living by a piece of cultivated land, from Middle English aker, acre ‘acre, field’ (Old English æcer). Compare Akers .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Acker ‘field’ (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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