When Johann Jacob Fleck was born on 5 August 1840, in Gochsheim, Kraichtal, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, his father, Friedrich Bernhard Fleck, was 36 and his mother, Margaretha Sophia Loritz, was 38. He married Sophia Groh on 13 November 1873, in Gochsheim, Kraichtal, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 23 December 1924, in his hometown, at the age of 84, and was buried in Gochsheim, Bretten, Baden.
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German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German vlec(ke), German Fleck ‘patch, spot’ or Yiddish flek, of varied application. Bahlow suggests that this may be a metonymic occupational name for a user of patches in repairing shoes, clothes, or utensils, or a habitational name from a place called with this word. In some parts of Germany this was the term for a type of round, flat loaf; the surname could therefore have arisen as a metonymic occupational name for a baker. In some cases the Jewish name was probably ornamental.
English (Northumberland) and Scottish: nickname derived from flecked ‘pied, spotted’, which is on record since 1377; the noun fleck ‘skin blemish: freckle’ is not recorded till 1596, but may well have existed earlier. Alternatively, a metonymic occupational name from Middle English flek(e) ‘hurdle’ (Old Norse fleki), for a maker of hurdles.
English: perhaps a shortened variant of Flecknoe, from the place so named in Wolfhampcote, Warwickshire.
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