Joseph Winkler

Brief Life History of Joseph

When Joseph Winkler was born on 12 February 1792, in Zusenhofen, Amt Oberkirch, Baden, his father, Francis Xavier Winkler, was 28 and his mother, Maria Francisca Fischer, was 20. He married Catherine Schneider on 8 November 1819, in Nußbach, Triberg, Baden. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Brazeau Township, Perry, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and Brazeau, Perry, Missouri, United States in 1870. He died in 1870, in Missouri, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Perry, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Winkler
1792–1870
Catherine Schneider
1804–1834
Marriage: 8 November 1819
Cecilia Winkler
1820–1904
Xavier Winkler
1822–
Mary Ann Winkler
1825–1910
Sophia Winkler
1827–
Fabian Winkler
1829–
Joseph Winkler
1833–

Sources (14)

  • Joseph Winkler in household of Francis Winkler, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Joseph Winkler, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
  • Joseph Winkler, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

1803

Historical Boundaries 1803: Louisiana Purchase, United States 1812: Missouri Territory, United States 1821: Missouri, United States

1817

Historical Boundaries: 1817: St. Genevieve, Missouri Territory, United States of America 1821: Perry, Missouri Territory, United State of America 1821: Perry, Missouri, United States of America

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Klaus, Otto, Erwin, Hans, Gerhard, Heinz, Hermann, Fritz, Gernot, Helmut, Horst.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for someone who kept a corner shop or one who farmed a corner of land, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a corner, in all these senses being an agent derivative of Winkel 1 ‘corner’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Hungary, Poland, Czechia, and Slovenia, often as a translation into German of corresponding Slavic topographic names or surnames.

Americanized or Germanized form of Czech, Hungarian, Slovenian, Slovak, and Croatian Vinkler , itself a Slavicized form of the German surname (see 1 above).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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