Brief Life History of Anna Maria
Anna Maria Pfrank was born in March 1827, in Germany. She married John Weiss on 13 September 1853, in Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Walnut Creek, Holmes, Ohio, United States in 1880 and Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States in 1900. She died on 12 March 1905, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States.
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Sources (13)
- Annie M Weiss, "United States Census, 1880"
- Anne Mary Pfrank, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Anna Mary Weiss, "Ohio, Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997"
Spouse and Children
1820–1873 Male
1827–1905 Female
Children (8)
1854–1902 Female
1855–1897 Female
1857–1940 Female
1859–1905 Female
1861–1925 Female
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World Events (8)
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Age 3
1836 · The Bridge War
Age 9
1851 · Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad
Age 24
Name Meaning
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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