Brief Life History of Mildred Barbara
When Mildred Barbara Roth was born on 31 January 1918, in Colorado, United States, her father, William Thomas Roth, was 24 and her mother, Mary Evelyn Toohey, was 18. She married Robert Smithson Kesler on 12 November 1935, in San Francisco, California, United States. She lived in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States in 1940 and Walnut Creek, Contra Costa, California, United States in 1965. She died on 23 January 1990, in Contra Costa, California, United States, at the age of 71.
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Sources (12)
- Mildred B Kessler, "United States 1950 Census"
- Mildred Barbara Kessler, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
- Mrs Barbara Kessler in entry for William T Roth, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
Spouse and Children
1914–1970 Male
1918–1990 Female
Parents and Siblings
1893–1965 Male
1899–1973 Female
Siblings (4)
1918–1990 Female
1921– Female
1921–2004 Male
1922– Female
World Events (8)
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
Age 1
1921 · Flash floods kill 1500
Age 3
1937 · The Neutrality Act
Age 19
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a person with red hair, from Middle High German rōt, German rot ‘red’. As a Jewish name it is at least in part artificial: its frequency as a Jewish surname is disproportionate to the number of Jews who, one may reasonably assume, were red-headed during the period of surname adoption. This form of the German surname (especially in this sense and in the sense 2 below) is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), where it is most common, and in some other European countries, e.g. Czechia and Croatia.
German and English (Middlesex): topographic name for someone who lived on land that had been cleared, from Old High German rod, Middle English roth(e) (Old English roth) ‘clearing’. In England, the name may also be a habitational name from any of the places like Rothend in Ashdon (Essex), Roe End in Markyate (Hertfordshire), Roe Green in Hatfield (Hertfordshire), or Roe Green in Sandon (Hertfordshire).
German: from a short form of any of various ancient Germanic personal names with the first element hrōd ‘renown’. Compare Rode 1, Ross 4.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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