Brief Life History of Paul
Paul Stein was born in January 1883, in Germany as the son of Franz Stein. He lived in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States in 1900.
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- Paul Stein in household of Franz Stein, "United States Census, 1900"
Parents and Siblings
World Events (8)
1886
Age 3
1890
Age 7
1914
Age 31
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German stein, German Stein ‘rock’, hence a topographic name either for someone who lived on stony ground or for someone who lived by a notable outcrop of rock or by a stone boundary marker or monument. It could also be a metonymic occupational name for a mason or stonecutter, or, among Jews, an artificial name. This surname is also found elsewhere in central Europe, e.g. in Czechia, where it is also spelled Štein, and in Poland.
Dutch: from a shortened form of the personal name Augustijn (see Austin ) or a habitational name from any of the Dutch places called Stein.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of ten or more farmsteads, notably in southeastern Norway, from Old Norse steinn ‘stone’, most often named from a big rock on the farm.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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