Brief Life History of Maria
When Maria Lerch was christened on 27 January 1673, in Affoltern im Emmental, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Hans Lerch, was 34 and her mother, Magdalena Walthard, was 33.
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- Maria Lerch, "Switzerland, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records, 1418-1996"
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Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Franz, Hans, Horst, Arno, Egon, Erwin, Gerhard, Guenter, Gunter, Helmut, Ingeborg, Karl-Heinz.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German lerche, German Lerche ‘lark’, probably a nickname for someone with a good singing voice, or a metonymic occupational name for a bird-catcher. As a Jewish surname, it is most probably artificial.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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