Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel WILD was born on 3 July 1831, in Holderbank, Bern, Switzerland, his father, Bernhard WILD, was 43 and his mother, Maria LIENDARD or LEUTHARD, was 38.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Samuel WILD - Published information: birth-name: Samuel WILD
Parents and Siblings
1787–1859 Male
1792–1879 Female
Siblings (9)
1816–1880 Female
1818–1866 Male
1819– Female
1822– Female
1824–1893 Female
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World Events (3)
1848
Age 17
1848
Age 17
1863
Age 32
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English wilde ‘wild, violent’ (Old English wilde), hence a nickname for a man of violent and undisciplined character, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of overgrown uncultivated land (from Middle English wilde (noun) ‘wild place, wasteland’).
English: variant of Wile , with excrescent -d.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): cognate of 1 above, from Middle High German wilde, wilt, German wild ‘wild’, also used in the sense ‘strange, foreign’, and therefore in some cases a nickname for an incomer.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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