When Ida Horlacher was born on 18 June 1876, in Umiken, Aargau, Switzerland, her father, Johannes Horlacher, was 42 and her mother, Anna Bircher, was 38.
German: habitational name for someone from Horlach in Bavaria or Horlachen in Württemberg, both so called from Old High German hor ‘mud, marsh’ + lahha ‘pool, pond’; the latter place retains traces of an inflected ending. See also Hurlocker .
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