Balthas Schilling was born about 1626, in Bitz, Balingen, Württemberg, Germany.
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German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from Middle High German schillinc, Middle Low German schillink, German Schilling ‘shilling’. The German surname may have referred originally to a rent or fee owed, or have some other anecdotal origin, now irrecoverable. The Jewish surname is mainly artificial. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
German: habitational name from Schilling in Bavaria or from any of the places called Schillingen in the Rhineland and former East Prussia. Compare Shilling .
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