Anna Habegger

• Name	Anna Habegger
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I0419	Gerber Family Tree
  Last Modified	24 Mar 2011

  
  

  Family	Hans Gerber,   b. 1688,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	1717
  	Married in Trub, Canton Bern, Switzerland
  Children	1. Anna Gerber,   b. 1718,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Barbara Gerber,   b. 1720,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Katharina Gerber,   b. 1722,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Magdalena Gerber,   b. 1723,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Peter Gerber,   b. 1727,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Elsbeth Gerber,   b. 1730,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Margaritha Gerber,   b. 1730,   d. Yes, date unknown + 8. Hans Gerber,   b. 1735,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	24 Mar 2011
  Family ID	F0177	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  HABEGGER NAME ORIGIN HABEGGER: Feeding into the Emme is a stream named Ilfis. It is on the hills and valleys that feed into this stream that the Habeggers lived. One kilometer from the village of Barau is a farm complex on a hill named Habegg. It is from this farm that we received our family name. In Switzerland each farm or farm complex has a name. The family or families living on that farm are known by the name of the farm. In the middle ages common people did not have family names. When distinctions needed to be made between persons, family names were added. The name of the farm they were living on frequently became the source of that name. Even today when a farmer goes to town he will frequently be called by the name of the farm rather than by his family name. The name Habegg is a shortened form of Habichtegg which Hawk Ridge. The Habegg farm is on a hill rising from the valleys to the west and south. It is the shoulder of a higher hill named Riegenen. Hawks can be seen soring on the air currents coming from the valley to the west. The hawk is able to remain motionless by balancing on the upward moving breeze. It was probably from such a common sight that the hill was given its name. It is a place where hawks have been coming for centuries to hunt for rodents. Habegger definition from the book "The History, Ancestry and Descendants of Peter Habegger and Elisabeth Lehman" by David L. Habegger