Brief Life History of Catharine
When Catharine Wagner was born on 12 August 1838, in Phillipsburg, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, David Wagner, was 34 and her mother, Elisabetha Catharina Zundel, was 34. She lived in Oregon, United States in 1870 and Corral Creek Election Precinct, Clackamas, Oregon, United States in 1900. She died on 22 September 1909, in Aurora, Marion, Oregon, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Aurora Community Cemetery, Aurora, Marion, Oregon, United States.
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Sources (14)
- Catherine Wagner in household of Mary Ehlen, "United States Census, 1880"
- Catharine Wagner, "Find A Grave Index"
- Headstone
Parents and Siblings
1803–1873 Male
1804–1883 Female
Siblings (7)
1833–1916 Female
1835–1882 Male
1838–1909 Female
1840–1912 Male
1842–1923 Female
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World Events (8)
1846
Age 8
1856
Age 18
1859 · Oregon Becomes a State
Age 21
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (also Wägner): occupational name for a carter and (in some dialects) a cartwright, from an agent derivative of Middle High German wagen ‘cart, wagon’, German Wagen. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Britain, Poland, and Denmark. In Hungary it is mostly spelled Wágner and Vágner. In Russia, Czechia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Slovakia it is also found in the Slavicized form Vagner . Compare Wagener , Waggener , and Wagoner .
Dutch and perhaps also English: occupational name from Middle Dutch waghenaer ‘carter’ (compare 1 above). The Dutch word is not known to have been borrowed into English before 1600 but the surname Wagner is recorded in Norfolk (England) from 1379, perhaps a substitution of the Dutch word for Middle English wainer. Compare Waggoner .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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