Brief Life History of Anna
When Anna Steiner was christened on 10 January 1686, in Signau, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Peter Steiner, was 33 and her mother, Cathri Geissbuehler, was 24. She died before 1696, in her hometown.
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- Anna Steiner, "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996"
- Switzerland, Church Records, 1277-1992; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-PBHK-T?cc=1640373&wc=M59T-MNG%3A125783201%2C131574101%2C125782803%2C131595101
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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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