When Ursula Kaestli was born on 18 May 1717, in Sankt Margrethen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, her father, Tobias Kaestli, was 40 and her mother, Anna Barbara Kaestli, was 28. She married Antoni Künzler on 29 January 1743, in Sankt Margrethen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 18 February 1771, in her hometown, at the age of 53, and was buried in Sankt Margrethen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.
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From the Latin name Ursula, a diminutive of ursa ‘(she-)bear’. This was the name of a 4th-century saint martyred at Cologne with a number of companions, traditionally said to have been eleven thousand, but more probably just eleven, the exaggeration being due to a misreading of a diacritic mark in an early manuscript. This name was moderately popular in the 16th century, but its use in the English-speaking world today is selective. A more recent influence has been the film actress Ursula Andress ( b. 1936 in Switzerland).
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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