Brief Life History of Anna
When Anna Maurer was christened on 14 March 1734, in Aeugst am Albis, Zürich, Switzerland, her father, Rudolf Maurer, was 28 and her mother, Verena Vollenweider, was 24. She married Heinrich Spinner on 1 October 1754, in Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 2 June 1786, in her hometown, at the age of 52, and was buried in Aeugst am Albis, Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Anna Maurer, „Schweiz, Katholische und Reformiert Kirchenbücher, 1418-1996“
- Anna Maurer, „Schweiz, Katholische und Reformiert Kirchenbücher, 1418-1996“
- Anna Maurer, „Schweiz, Katholische und Reformiert Kirchenbücher, 1418-1996“
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Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a mason, especially a builder of walls of stone or brick, from an agent derivative of Middle High German mūre, German Mauer ‘wall’ (from Latin murus ‘wall’, especially a city wall). In the Middle Ages the majority of dwellings were built of wood (or lath and plaster), and this term would have specifically denoted someone employed in building defensive walls, castles, churches, and other public buildings. This form of the surname is also found in some other European countries, e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine), the Netherlands, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Slovenia (see also 2 below). Compare Mourer and Mowrer .
In some cases also an Americanized or Germanized form of Slovenian Mavrer or Mavrar: occupational name of German origin (see 1 above), at least in some cases applied as a translation into German of the Slovenian surname Zidar .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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