Ernest Gindrat was born in 1886, in Tramelan, Bern, Switzerland. He married Marguerite Mathez about 1906, in Tramelan, Bern, Switzerland. He died in 1963, at the age of 77, and was buried in Tramelan, Bern, Switzerland.
Of Germanic origin, derived from the Old High German vocabulary word eornost ‘serious business, battle to the death’. The name was introduced into England in the 18th century by followers of the Elector of Hanover, who became George I of England. A variant spelling, Earnest , has arisen by association with the modern English adjective earnest.
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