Brief Life History of Sophia
Sophia Frank was born on 13 January 1795 as the daughter of Johann Georg Franck. She married Andreas Blessing on 11 February 1824, in Weilheim an der Teck, Kirchheim, Württemberg, Germany. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter.
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- Sophia Frank, "Germany Marriages, 1558-1929"
- Sophie im Eintrag für Ludwig Siptus Plessing, „Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971“
- Sophia in entry for Jacobina Margaretha Weßing, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
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German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Slovenian, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): ethnic or habitational name for someone from Franconia (German Franken), a region of southwestern Germany so called from its early settlement by the Franks, an ancient Germanic people who inhabited the lands around the River Rhine in Roman times. In the 6th–9th centuries, under leaders such as Clovis I (c. 466–511) and Charlemagne (742–814), the Franks established a substantial empire in western Europe, from which the country of France takes its name.
English (of Norman origin), Dutch, and German: from the personal name Frank (Norman French Franco, ancient Germanic Franko), in origin an ethnic name for a Frank, or from German Franke ‘Frank(ish), Franconian’ (compare 1 above). This also came to be used as an adjective meaning ‘free, open-hearted, generous’ (Middle English and Old French franc ‘free’, i.e. not a serf or slave), deriving from the fact that in Frankish Gaul only people of Frankish race enjoyed the status of fully free men. As a surname of German origin it is also found (in both possible meanings; see 1 above) in France (Alsace and Lorraine). Compare Franc and Franck .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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