When Johann Michael Schuster was born in 1707, in Sontheim, Unterallgäu, Bavaria, Germany, his father, Johann Jacob Schuster, was 19 and his mother, Anna Maria Barbara Weber, was 18. He married Maria Felicitas Stahl on 2 September 1732, in Schifferstadt, Speyer, Bavaria, Germany. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 4 February 1783, in Bavaria, Germany, at the age of 76, and was buried in Schifferstadt, Ludwigshafen, Bavaria, Germany.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Erwin, Helmut, Alois, Ernst, Manfred, Arno, Franz, Fritz, Gerhard.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a maker or repairer of shoes, Middle High German schuochsūtære (a compound of schuoch ‘shoe’ + sūtære ‘one who sews’), German Schuster, Yiddish shuster. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and in some central European countries, especially in Czechia and Slovakia, where it is more common in Slavicized forms (see 2 below). In part, Schuster is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ). Compare Shuster .
Germanized form of Czech Šustr and Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Šuster, surnames of German origin (see above).
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