When Alfred Gasser was born on 15 September 1882, in Rüderswil, Bern, Switzerland, his father, Christian Gasser, was 37 and his mother, Verena Schweizer, was 35. He died on 4 May 1949, at the age of 66.
German and Swiss German (also Gässer); Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived in a side street or alley, from a derivative of Middle High German gazze, German Gasse, Yiddish gas. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and in Slovenia (see 3 below).
English (Hampshire): unexplained.
Slovenian: of German origin (see 1 above). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the Slovenized variant Gaser and possibly also Gasar.
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