When Amanda Schleef was born in June 1884, in California, United States, her father, John Schleef, was 40 and her mother, Mary Mina LaFrenz, was 28. She lived in Judicial Township 4, San Mateo, California, United States in 1900 and Judicial Township 2, San Mateo, California, United States in 1910. She died on 5 November 1967, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 83.
Some characteristic forenames: German Dietrich.
North German: metonymic occupational name from Middle Low German slef ‘large wooden spoon (made and used by peasants)’ for the maker of these spoons or a cook, which later came to mean ‘coarse fellow, rube’.
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