Elisabeth Rosenkranz was born in March 1862, in Germany. She married Henning Ehlers on 15 February 1881, in Grundy, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Buckingham, Tama, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Black Hawk Township, Grundy, Iowa, United States in 1910. She died on 2 December 1955, in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 93.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Fritz, Kurt, Hans, Helmut, Otto, Wessel.
German and Danish: from Middle Low German rōsenkranz ‘wreath, rosary’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a wreath or rosary maker, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a wreath or in a place called with this word. This surname is also found in the Netherlands (see Rosenkrans ), where it is very rare. See also Rosenkrantz .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): adoption of the German surname (see 1 above), or an artificial name from the German word Rosenkranz ‘wreath’.
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