When Edward Alexander Winkler was born in 1905, in Tyndall, Brokenhead, Manitoba, Canada, his father, Carl Winkler, was 27 and his mother, Cristine Andersdatter, was 27. He married Hazel Grace Smith on 6 January 1930, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He lived in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada in 1911 and Manitoba, Canada in 1916. He died on 13 May 1978, in Chemainus, North Cowichan, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 73.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Klaus, Otto, Erwin, Hans, Gerhard, Heinz, Hermann, Fritz, Gernot, Helmut, Horst.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for someone who kept a corner shop or one who farmed a corner of land, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a corner, in all these senses being an agent derivative of Winkel 1 ‘corner’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Hungary, Poland, Czechia, and Slovenia, often as a translation into German of corresponding Slavic topographic names or surnames.
Americanized or Germanized form of Czech, Hungarian, Slovenian, Slovak, and Croatian Vinkler , itself a Slavicized form of the German surname (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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