Brief Life History of Regula
When Regula Wagner was born on 18 March 1792, in Sternenberg, Zürich, Switzerland, her father, Johann Jacob Wagner, was 32 and her mother, Barbara Bosshart, was 37. She married Johannes Bosshard on 13 June 1816. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 19 April 1853, in her hometown, at the age of 61, and was buried in Switzerland.
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- Regula Wagner in entry for Unknown, "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996"
- Regula Wagner in entry for Unknown, "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996"
- Regula Wagner in entry for A Maria Bossthau, "Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996"
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World Events (3)
1798
Revolution in Switzerland. Farmers in occupied territories become free citizens. Centralistic parliamentary republic according to French model. Occupation by French troops and some battles of Napoleon vs. Austria and Russia in Switzerland.
1800
Switzerland is one of the first industrialized countries in Europe.
1848
New Federal Constitution combining elements of the U.S. constitution (Federal State with central and cantonal (state) governments and parliaments) and of French revolutionary tradition. The Principles of this constitution are still valid today.
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (also Wägner): occupational name for a carter and (in some dialects) a cartwright, from an agent derivative of Middle High German wagen ‘cart, wagon’, German Wagen. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Britain, Poland, and Denmark. In Hungary it is mostly spelled Wágner and Vágner. In Russia, Czechia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Slovakia it is also found in the Slavicized form Vagner . Compare Wagener , Waggener , and Wagoner .
Dutch and perhaps also English: occupational name from Middle Dutch waghenaer ‘carter’ (compare 1 above). The Dutch word is not known to have been borrowed into English before 1600 but the surname Wagner is recorded in Norfolk (England) from 1379, perhaps a substitution of the Dutch word for Middle English wainer. Compare Waggoner .
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