Brief Life History of Madlena
When Madlena Steiner was christened on 18 September 1701, in Signau, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Peter Steiner, was 48 and her mother, Cathri Geissbuehler, was 39.
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- Madlena Steiner, „Schweiz, Katholische und Reformiert Kirchenbücher, 1418-1996“
- Switzerland, Church Records, 1277-1992; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-PBHF-B?cc=1640373&wc=M59T-MNG%3A125783201%2C131574101%2C125782803%2C131595101
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World Events (3)
1798
Revolution in Switzerland. Farmers in occupied territories become free citizens. Centralistic parliamentary republic according to French model. Occupation by French troops and some battles of Napoleon vs. Austria and Russia in Switzerland.
1800
Switzerland is one of the first industrialized countries in Europe.
1803
"Civil war brings Helvetic Republic to an end. French emperor Napoleon enforces a constitution negotiated under his ""mediation""."
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Erwin, Hans, Otto, Armin, Heinz, Markus, Dieter, Fritz, Helmut, Konrad, Manfred.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): agent derivative of Stein . It is both an occupational name for someone who worked with stone (a quarryman, stonecutter, or stonemason), and a topographic name for someone who lived on stony ground or near a prominent outcrop of rock. As a Jewish surname, it can also be artificial, distributed at random by Austrian clerks. This surname is also found elsewhere in Europe, e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Czechia, Croatia, and Slovenia (see also 4 below).
German: occupational name from Middle High German steinen ‘to set in precious stones, gems, boundary stones’ for a goldsmith, paver, or a land surveyor.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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