Brief Life History of Katherine M
When Katherine M Krebs was born on 14 August 1893, in Bavaria, Germany, her father, Balthazar Krebs, was 29 and her mother, Magdalene Andros, was 23. She had at least 3 sons and 1 daughter with Martin John Fair. She died on 13 October 1988, in Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Katherine Fair in household of Joseph Krebs, "United States Census, 1930"
- Katherina Krebs, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Kathrina M. Krebs Fair, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina provoking World War I.
1918
Armistice ending World War I.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Gerhard, Arno, Bernd, Dieter, Erwin, Franz, Fritz, Heinz, Helmut, Irmgard.
German and Swiss German: metonymic occupational name for a catcher or seller of crabs or crayfish or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a crab, perhaps because they had a peculiar gait. The name was certainly standardized from older variants like Krevetes or Krebiss which reflect Middle Low German crevet ‘crab, shrimp’, as well as Middle High German krebez. This surname is also found in e.g. Slovenia, Czechia, and Poland, often as a translation into German of the Slavic surname Rak ‘crayfish’, and in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine). Compare Crabbs , Crapps , Crepps , Creps , and Krebbs .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Krebs ‘crab’ (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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