When Leonard Berkheimer was born about 1774, in Hanover, York, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Johann Ludwig Berkheimer, was 40 and his mother, Maria Salome Hallman, was 34. He married Elizabeth Coffer before 1811, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 8 daughters. He died in 1841, in Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 68.
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South German:
habitational name for someone from either of two places called Berkheim, near Biberach and near Esslingen in Württemberg. The placename is a compound of Old High German berg ‘mountain, hill’ + the common suffix of placenames -heim (related to English home).
in some cases possibly a habitational name for someone from any of various places in Hesse and Alsace named Bergheim.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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