When Jakob Winkler was born on 6 November 1862, in Zell, Zürich, Switzerland, his father, Hans Ulrich Winkler, was 23 and his mother, Anna Maria Thalmann, was 22. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1864. He died in July 1864, in Wyoming, Otoe, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Nebraska, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesThe previous memory on this child has the correct information except for one fact. They state that he died in Wyomine (the state). That is not true but is a mistake often made. He actually died in W …
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