Brief Life History of Thomas Sebastian
Thomas Sebastian Markel was born on 9 November 1935, in San Francisco, California, United States as the son of Stella Markel. He died on 23 February 2007, in Yountville, Napa, California, United States, at the age of 71.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Thomas Sebastian Markel - Church record: birth: 9 November 1935; San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
- Legacy NFS Source: Thomas Sebastian Markel - Memory of Someone: male
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World Events (3)
1937 · The Neutrality Act
Age 2
1941
Age 6
1953 · Grizzly Bear Becomes State Animal
Age 18
Name Meaning
German (also Märkel): variant of Markl 1 and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Jewish (Ashkenazic; also Märkel): derivative of two personal names, Latin Marcus (compare 3 below) and German Markward (see Markwardt ), + the Yiddish hypocoristic suffix -l. The Yiddish personal names Markl and /Merkl were both used by Jews as vernacular equivalents of the closely sounding Biblical name Mordecai .
Americanized form of Slovenian Markelj or its variant Markl 2: from a hypocoristic derivative of the personal name Marko , Latin Marcus.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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