Albertina W Kiel was born on 10 February 1865, in Germany. She married August William Ost on 13 May 1886, in Riga, Riga Township, Lenawee, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Green Creek Township, Sandusky, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Green Creek, Sandusky, Ohio, United States in 1910. She died on 16 May 1942, in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, United States, at the age of 77.
North German: in some cases, probably a habitational name from the city of Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein, but more likely a topographic name for someone living by a long narrow bay or area of sheltered water, from Middle Low German kīl ‘wedge’, the word from which the city derives its name.
German: from Middle Low German, Middle High German kīl ‘wedge’, applied as a metonymic occupational name or as a pejorative nickname for a ruffian or a bumbler.
German and Dutch: from a short form of the personal name Kilian .
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