Brief Life History of Katharina Barbara
When Katharina Barbara Kober was born on 29 June 1836, in Kallstadt, Bad Dürkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, her father, Johann Jakob Kober, was 34 and her mother, Maria Elisabetha Peter, was 22. She married Johannes Drumpf on 29 September 1859, in Kallstadt, Heppenheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died in November 1922, in her hometown, at the age of 86, and was buried in Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany.
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- Birth Record of Katharine Kober (29 January 1836)
- Katharina Roober, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
- Barbara in entry for Heinrich Weil, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
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1852 · The Book of Mormon Published in German
On May 25, 1852, the Book of Mormon is published in German.
1864
War: Prussia and Austria vs. Denmark.
1890
Young William (Wilhelm) II dismisses Bismarck.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Bernhard, Angelika, Dieter, Ernst, Erwin, Gottlieb, Konrad, Manfred, Reinhold, Sepp, Wolfgang.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from a shortened derivative of the personal name Jakob (see Jacob ).
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German kober, German Kober ‘basket’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a basket maker or perhaps a nickname for someone who carried a basket on his back.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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