Brief Life History of Elisabeth
When Elisabeth Bircher was born on 14 December 1627, in Adelboden, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Christen Bircher, was 35 and her mother, Magdalena Künzi, was 11624.
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- Elisabetha, „Schweiz, Katholische und Reformiert Kirchenbücher, 1418-1996“
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1648
All European peace treaty formally accepts Switzerland as an independent nation.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Erwin, Albrecht, Hans, Kurt, Otto, Ulrich.
South German and Swiss German: topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from Middle High German birche ‘birch’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
English: habitational name from Birchover in Derbyshire or Bircher in Hereford, both named as from Old English birce ‘birch’ + ofer ‘ridge’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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