When Justina Margaretha Stauffer was born on 7 August 1754, in Amt Bretten, Baden, her father, Johann Kaspar Stauffer, was 37 and her mother, Maria Justina Dorwarth, was 42. She married Johannes Odenwald on 9 May 1779, in Bretten, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 13 September 1790, in Bretten, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, at the age of 36.
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South German:
occupational name for a maker or seller of beakers or mugs, from an agent derivative of Middle High German stouf ‘beaker, stoup’.
habitational name for someone from any of various minor places called with this word, for example Stauf, Staufen; the reference is to hills thought to resemble a beaker in shape. Compare Stouffer .
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