When Gerlach Achenbach was born in 1576, in Laasphe, Kreis Wittgenstein, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany, his father, Gerlach Achenbach, was 36 and his mother, Katherine Trine Threinken, was 47. He married Elisabeth in 1625, in Nidda, Wetteraukreis, Hesse, Germany. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 17 October 1636, in Friedberg, Hesse, Germany, at the age of 60.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hartmut, Horst, Orlo, Wolfgang.
German: habitational name from any of the places in Hesse and Westphalia named Achenbach, from the obsolete word Ach or Ache (from Middle High German ahe ‘water, stream’) + Bach ‘brook’. Compare Aughenbaugh and Aughinbaugh .
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