Brief Life History of Jakob
When Jakob Graf was born on 5 February 1827, in Bern, Bern, Switzerland, his father, Samuel Graf, was 35 and his mother, Maria Buetiger, was 32. He died on 12 January 1845, at the age of 17, and was buried in Büren an der Aare, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Jakob Graf - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Jakob GRAF
- Jakob Graf, "Switzerland, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records, 1418-1996"
- Jakob Graf, "Switzerland, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records, 1418-1996"
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Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Kurt, Otto, Erwin, Ernst, Fritz, Gerhard, Hermann, Horst, Manfred, Udo, Alois.
German (also Gräf): status name from Middle High German grāve, grābe, which was used as a title denoting various more or less aristocratic dignitaries and officials. In later times it became established as a title of nobility equivalent to the Romance count. The vocabulary word also denoted a variety of different minor local functionaries in different parts of Germany. In the Grand Duchy of Hesse, for example, it was used for the holder of the comparatively humble office of village headman (compare Mayer , Schulz , and Vogt ). The surname could have originated from any of these senses or be a metonymic occupational or status name for a servant or retainer of a count, or a nickname for someone who gave himself airs and graces. This surname is also found in many other European countries, for example in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Croatia, and Slovenia, often as a translation into German of the corresponding Hungarian and Slavic surnames Gróf and Grof . Compare Graef .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name selected, like Herzog and other words denoting titles, because of their aristocratic connotations.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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