When Magdalena Barfuss was born on 13 June 1882, in Bern, Switzerland, her father, Johan Jacob Barfuss, was 42 and her mother, Maria Anna Buehlmann, was 29. She had at least 1 daughter.
Some characteristic forenames: German Manfred.
German: nickname for someone who was in the habit of going unshod, from Middle High German bar ‘bare, naked’ + vuoz ‘foot’, or perhaps for a member of the monastic order of the Barefoot Monks.
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