When Hans Hell was born on 8 February 1666, in Nesslau, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, his father, Hans Hell, was 35 and his mother, Elsbetha Riedlinger, was 24. He married Verena Tobler on 21 October 1685. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 6 October 1692, in Stein, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, at the age of 26.
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English: probably in many cases a variant of Ell with prosthetic H-. Compare Heal 3.
English: topographic name from Middle English hell, southeastern form of hull, hill ‘hill’, found e.g. in Kent, Sussex, Essex, and Hertfordshire.
English (southwestern): variant of Heal with shortening of the vowel.
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