When Georg Johann Keil was born on 29 March 1866, in Forst, Seybothenreuth, Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany, his father, Johan Michael Keil, was 47 and his mother, Barbara Müller, was 40. He married Johanne Christiane Hildner on 22 May 1893. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He died on 8 May 1922, in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany, at the age of 56.
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German: from Middle High German kīl ‘wedge, wooden peg’, hence possibly a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such pegs or for a wood chopper. Alternatively, it may be nickname for an uncouth or misshapen person (compare Keidel ) or a topographic name for someone who lived on or near a wedge-shaped plot of land. Compare Cail , Cale , and Kile .
Scottish: possibly a habitational name from a place called Keil or Keill in Scotland.
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