When Caspar Ahner was born on 26 March 1652, in Wittgensdorf, Kreis Mittweida, Saxony, Germany, his father, Hanns Ahner, was 32 and his mother, Margaratha Grosse, was 20. He married Dorothea Steiner on 1 November 1675, in Wittgensdorf, Kreis Mittweida, Saxony, Germany. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 20 November 1705, in his hometown, at the age of 53.
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North German:
topographic name from ancient Germanic an ‘stream’ or ‘fen’ (see Ahn 2) + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
topographic name for someone living near the river Ahne.
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