When Erma R. Burmeister was born on 19 November 1914, in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, her father, John Burmeister, was 32 and her mother, Josephine Irene Alice Kate Bartrim, was 25. She married John Michael Angus Chisholm on 12 May 1935, in Kellogg, Shoshone, Idaho, United States. She died on 8 November 1963, in Kellogg, Shoshone, Idaho, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Shoshone, Idaho, United States.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Erwin, Klaus, Otto, Ewald, Fritz, Gerhardt, Gernot, Hans, Horst, Juergen, Ulrike.
North German: status name for the mayor or chief magistrate of a town, village, or peasant commune (Bauerschaft), from Middle Low German būr ‘inhabitant, dweller, neighbor, peasant, citizen’ + mēster ‘master’.
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