Brief Life History of Anna
When Anna Berger was born in 1647, in Spiez, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Anthoni Berger, was 23 and her mother, Anna Raeber, was 20. She married Christen Turtschi on 27 November 1668, in Spiez, Bern, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 6 March 1692, in her hometown, at the age of 45, and was buried in Diemtigen, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Diemtigen - Death - Toten, Index 1683-1695
- Anna Bärger, „Schweiz, Katholische und Reformiert Kirchenbücher, 1418-1996“
- Anna Berger in entry for Christen Asüker, "Switzerland, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records, 1418-1996"
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1648
All European peace treaty formally accepts Switzerland as an independent nation.
Name Meaning
German, Dutch, Swedish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived in the mountains or hills (see Berg ). The surname of German origin is also found in many other European countries, e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Russia, Poland, Czechia, Hungary, and Croatia, and Slovenia, often as a translation into German of corresponding Slavic topographic names or surnames. As a Jewish name it is mainly artificial. Compare Bargar , Barger , Barker , Barrier , and Barriger .
French: occupational name from Old French bergier ‘shepherd’ (from Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’). It is also found in England, as a surname of Huguenot origin. Compare Shepard .
Norwegian: habitational name from any of various farms so named with the plural of Berg ‘mountain’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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