When Paul Oldenburg was born on 1 October 1723, in Groß Mist, Lüdersdorf, Kreis Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, his father, Paul Ernst Oldenburg, was 25 and his mother, Catharina Dorothea Böttcher, was 21. He married Anna Elsabe Sellman on 28 October 1755. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 22 October 1784, in Groß Mist, Ratzeburg, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, at the age of 61, and was buried in Herrnburg, Ratzeburg, Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Erwin, Fritz, Otto, Claus, Hans, Jurgen, Ruediger.
North German, Dutch, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from Oldenburg, the capital of the former principality of the same name, from the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of Middle Low German ald, old ‘old’ + burg ‘fortress, fortified town’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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