When Johannes Sauser was born on 13 December 1722, in Sigriswil, Bern, Switzerland, his father, Jacob Sauser, was 36 and his mother, Anna von Gunten, was 31. He married Magdalena Santschi on 20 October 1768. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 22 July 1785, in Thun, Bern, Switzerland, at the age of 62, and was buried in Thun, Bern, Switzerland.
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German: nickname for a clumsy or irascible person, from Middle High German sūsen ‘to move noisily’.
English: occupational name from Middle English saucer ‘maker or seller of sauces’ (Old French saucier, saussier). This surname has now died out in Britain.
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