Brief Life History of Alfred
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.
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Parents and Siblings
1844–1924 Male
1846–1915 Female
Siblings (11)
1872– Female
1873–1903 Male
1874– Female
1875– Female
1877– Female
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World Events (5)
1914
Age 32
1919
Age 37
1920
Age 38
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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