Brief Life History of Abraham
When Abraham Fankhauser was born in 1646, his father, Michel Fankhauser, was 47 and his mother, Barbara Wuethrich, was 44. He married Elsbeth Rothenbuehler on 8 October 1686, in Trub, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Abraham Fankhauser - birth: 5 July 1646; Trub, Bern, Switzerland
- Abraham Fanckhuser, "Switzerland, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records, 1418-1996"
- Legacy NFS Source: Abraham Fankhauser -
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1648
All European peace treaty formally accepts Switzerland as an independent nation.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Fritz, Christoph, Erwin, Hanspeter, Kurt.
South German and Swiss German: topographic name for someone living by a Fanghaus, literally ‘capture house’, a building or enclosure in which live animals captured by hunting or trapping were kept.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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