When Verena Wanzenried was christened on 25 September 1687, in Grosshöchstetten, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Bendicht Wantzenried, was 44 and her mother, Anna Ruefenacht, was 31.
Swiss German: probably a habitational name from a place now lost or from Wenzenried in Bavaria.
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