When Balthasar Faissler was born on 11 January 1691, in Deckenpfronn, Calw, Württemberg, Germany, his father, Jacob Feissler, was 32 and his mother, Caecilia Aichelin, was 38.
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German (also Fässler): occupational name for a cooper, from Middle High German vaz, vezzel ‘keg’ (a diminutive of vaz ‘barrel’) + the agent suffix -er.
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