When Engel Regina Rust was born on 6 January 1644, in Northeim, Hanover, Prussia, Germany, her father, Henrich Rust, was 27 and her mother, Maria Elisabeth Goldachmid, was 25. She married Hans Henrich Uffel on 16 November 1659. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 9 February 1716, at the age of 72, and was buried in Northeim, Hanover, Prussia, Germany.
Swiss German (also Rüst): topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent elm tree, Rust (Old High German ruost), or in northern Germany for someone who lived by a resting place or halt along a route, from Middle Low German ruste ‘rest’.
German: habitational name from a place called Ruest in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.
German: from the rare personal name Rusto (from Old High German (h)rustan ‘prepare, get ready (for military action)’.
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