Brief Life History of Margaret Katherine
When - Margaret Katherine Majer was born on 13 December 1898, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Carl Titus Majer, was 35 and her mother, Margaretha Berg, was 28. She married - John Brendan Kelly Sr. on 23 January 1924, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Mahanoy Township, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940 and Conshohocken, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. She died on 6 January 1990, in Linwood, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (46)
- Margaret Kelly, "United States Census, 1940"
- Margarethe M. Majer, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Births, 1860-1906"
- Major, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Marriage Indexes, 1885-1951"
Spouse and Children
1889–1960 Male
1898–1990 Female
Children (4)
1925–1991 Female
1927–1985 Male
1929–1982 Female
1933–2009 Female
Parents and Siblings
1863–1922 Male
1870–1952 Female
Siblings (3)
1897–1949 Male
1898–1990 Female
1901–1964 Male
World Events (8)
1900 · Governor Shot
Age 2
1905 · The Movie Theater
Age 7
1922 · The First Radio Station WOK Begins Broadcasting
Age 24
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Armin, Erwin, Georg, Gerhard, Manfred, Ulrich, Wolfgang. Jewish Aron.
Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, and Serbian; Hungarian (also Májer): status name for a steward, bailiff, or tenant farmer, from a Slavicized or Hungarized form of German Meyer 1, Mayer 4. As a Slovenian surname it is derived from the loanword majer ‘steward, bailiff’, which also denoted a hired worker on a forest estate. Compare Maier 4 and Mayer 6.
Slovak: from majer ‘manor farm estate’, a loanword from German (compare 1 above), probably used to denote a person living and working at the farm. Compare Majernik .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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