When Herman Heinrich Kramer was born on 19 December 1818, in Mecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, his father, Herman Henrich Kramer Sr., was 38 and his mother, Anna Marie Hoffman, was 22. He married Pernilla Pherson Phearson or Olasdotter on 29 December 1855, in Viborg, Viborg, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Divide Township, Phelps, Nebraska, United States in 1900. He died on 8 February 1901, in Holdrege, Phelps, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Holdrege, Phelps, Nebraska, United States.
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German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (mainly Krämer); Dutch: occupational name for a shopkeeper or trader, from an agent derivative of Middle High German, Middle Low German krām ‘trading post, tent, booth’. This surname is also found in some other parts of Europe, e.g. in Britain, Poland, and France (Alsace and Lorraine); see also 2 below. In part, Kramer is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ). Compare Kraemer .
Americanized or Germanized form of Polish Kramarz , Czech Kramář, Slovak Kramár, Slovenian (compare 3 below), Croatian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian Kramar .
Slovenian: variant of Kramar . Compare 2 above and Cramer .
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