When Margaret Eleanor Bieber was born on 29 October 1919, in Duval, Last Mountain Valley No. 250, Saskatchewan, Canada, her father, Fredrick Bieber, was 28 and her mother, Eleonore Kendel, was 25. She died on 3 June 2008, in Avonlea, Elmsthorpe No. 100, Saskatchewan, Canada, at the age of 88.
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Canada Act is passed. The United Kingdom transfers final legal powers over Canada. The country adopts its new constitution, which includes a charter of rights.
Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Klaus, Gerhard, Kurt, Alois, Erwin, Florian, Frieda, Hans, Helmut, Horst, Mathias.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German biber, German Biber, or Yiddish biber ‘beaver’, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble the animal in some way, or a topographic name for someone who lived in a place frequented by beavers or by a field named with this word, or a habitational name from any of various placenames in Hesse containing this element. As a Jewish name it is largely artificial. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). Compare Beaber , Beaver , and Beeber .
History: George Bieber alias Beaver from Alsace, came to Philadelphia, PA, in 1744. — The surname Bieber of French (ultimately German) origin is listed along with its altered form Beaver in the register of Huguenot ancestors recognized by the Huguenot Society of America.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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