Bertha Bachman was born on 20 October 1874, in Switzerland. She married Henry Knecht on 2 August 1897, in San Francisco, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Arleta, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1910. She died on 11 May 1932, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Lincoln Memorial Park, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Bach ‘stream, creek’ + Mann (Yiddish man) ‘man’.
Americanized form of German and Swiss German Bachmann .
History: According to family tradition, a Bachman family from Bern canton, Switzerland, came to PA with William Penn in 1677.
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