When Catherine Bender was born in 1728, in Herxheim am Berg, Bad Dürkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, her father, Johann Jacob Bender, was 35 and her mother, Anna Elisabeth Zimmermann, was 33. She had at least 6 sons and 10 daughters with Hans Bernhardt Barnabas Gilbert. She died on 14 September 1808, in Adams, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Biglerville, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States.
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German: occupational name for a cooper, a short form of Fassbender . Compare Bainter and Painter .
English (London): metonymic occupational name for an archer or bow maker, from Middle English bender, an agent derivative of benden ‘to bend’ (Old English bendan). Compare Benbow .
Hungarian: from bender ‘curl’, hence a nickname for someone with curly hair.
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