When Anna Kochan was born about 1760, in Bezirk Grybów, Galicia, Austria, her father, Jacobus KOCHAN or CZYRŃIANSKI, was 27 and her mother, Maria, was 34. She married Basilius Maciejowski about 1783. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters.
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The Napoleonic Wars begin.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies. He dies in Vienna at age 35.
Austria declares war on France.
Some characteristic forenames: Polish Casimir, Genowesa, Ireneusz, Jacek, Jerzy, Jozef, Kazimierz, Piotr, Stanislaw, Tadeusz, Waclaw.
Polish, Slovak, Rusyn (from Slovakia and Poland), Czech, and Sorbian: from the old personal name Kochan (Rusyn Kokhan) ‘beloved’ derived from a verb meaning ‘to love’ (see 2 below), or from a pet form of any personal name beginning with Ko- (compare Koch ). Compare also Kohan .
Polish: nickname for an attractive man, from kochan, kochanek, a term of endearment meaning ‘darling, beloved’, from kochać ‘to love’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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