When Maria Charlotta Fenstermacher was born on 22 October 1788, in Rockland Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jacob Fenstermacher, was 36 and her mother, Anna Elizabeth Basters, was 31.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a window maker, from Middle High German venster (from Latin fenestra), German Fenster ‘window’ + Middle High German macher, German Macher ‘maker’. See also Fenster .
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