When Henry David Berringer Zwicker was born on 24 July 1859, in Mahone Bay, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, David Zwicker, was 23 and his mother, Caroline Catherine Elizabeth Berringer, was 29. He married Esther E. Lloyd on 26 December 1881, in Milton, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Greenfield, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1881. He died on 13 April 1892, at the age of 32.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Fritz, Reinhold, Rudi.
German:
occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle High German zwicken ‘to secure with nails, to peg’. This could denote a leather or textile worker, a cooper, or someone performing a similar function in a wide variety of other industries including, for example, salt extraction and mining.
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