Brief Life History of Anna
When Anna Winkler was born on 28 July 1836, in Zell, Zürich, Switzerland, her father, Hans Jakob Winkler, was 28 and her mother, Susanna Burri, was 29. She married Claus Peter Anderson on 8 July 1865, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 17 August 1892, in Burrville, Sevier, Utah, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Burrville Cemetery, Sevier, Utah, United States.
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- Anna Andersen, "United States Census, 1870"
- Anna Winkler Anderson, "Find A Grave Index"
- Anna, "Switzerland, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records, 1418-1996"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States
1854
Historical Boundaries: 1854: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Klaus, Otto, Erwin, Hans, Gerhard, Heinz, Hermann, Fritz, Gernot, Helmut, Horst.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for someone who kept a corner shop or one who farmed a corner of land, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a corner, in all these senses being an agent derivative of Winkel 1 ‘corner’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Hungary, Poland, Czechia, and Slovenia, often as a translation into German of corresponding Slavic topographic names or surnames.
Americanized or Germanized form of Czech, Hungarian, Slovenian, Slovak, and Croatian Vinkler , itself a Slavicized form of the German surname (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Anna Winkler
Anna Winkler was born July 28, 1836 in Zell, Zurich, Switzerland. She was the daughter of Hans Jacob and Susanna Burri Winkler. She had two older sisters: Elizabeth who married Jacob Ott in 1856, and …
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