Brief Life History of Ferdinand
When Ferdinand Strasser was born on 11 December 1857, in Amriswil, Thurgau, Switzerland, his father, Johannes Sebastian Strasser, was 30 and his mother, Anna Barbara Staeheli, was 31.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Ferdinand Strasser - birth: 11 December 1857; Amriswil, Thurgau, Switzerland
- Ferdinand Strasser, "Switzerland, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records, 1418-1996"
- Ferdinand Strasser, "Switzerland, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records, 1418-1996"
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World Events (6)
1863
Jean Henru Dunant founded the Red Cross in Geneva.
1914
Switzerland organizes Red Cross units during World War I.
1919
Treaty of Versailles reaffirms Swiss neutrality.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Kurt, Mathias, Alois, Arno, Christoph, Franz, Gerhard, Gunter, Jurgen, Klaus, Otto.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone living by a main street or highway, from Middle High German strasse, German Strasse ‘street, road’. This form of the surname is also found in Czechia and Slovakia, where it is also spelled Štrasser. Compare Strausser and Strawser .
In some cases also a Germanized form of Slovenian Stražar (from stražar, an occupational name for a sentinel) or a German translation of Slovenian Cestnik (see Cesnik ) or Cestar, cognates of 1. This can also be an Americanized or Germanized form of Slovenian Štraser, itself of German origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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