My Genealogy
Dale Edward Unruh Jr.
Dale Edward Unruh Sr. and Lynn Marie Geesey
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Father's Side

Marshall Farah Unruh and Emma Greif
Married on 1 Jun 1926 in Philadelphia PA. Marshall died on 11 Feb 1962. Emma died  14 Oct, 2004

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    Doris Emma Unruh was born on 18 Jan 1928.

    Marshall Edward Unruh was born on 29 Aug 1934 in Philadelphia PA. He died on 5 Aug 1990.
        Married Marian Euphemia Nixon on 12 Feb 1955

        Dale Edward Unruh Sr. was born on 28 Feb 1958.
           Married Lynn Marie Geesey on 20 Jun 1981.
                 Two Sons: David Richard Unruh born May 14, 1977
                                  Dale Edward Unruh Jr.  born June 4, 1982 (This is me)

        Albert Bruce Unruh born on 21 May 1964.
           Married Karan Lee Opie Gibbons on 21 Oct 1994.
                Two Daughters: Carmella Renee' Gibbons and Candace Lee Gibbons born Dec 2, 1982


Last Name: Unruh
  1. Nickname for a restless or quarrelsome person, from Middle High German, Middle Low German unrouwe, unrāwa ‘unrest’, ‘disturbance’.
  2. Habitational name from places called Unruh, in East Prussia, or Unrow.
  3. Nickname for a careless or casual person, from Middle High German unruoch ‘careless’, ‘negligent’.
Greif
  1. German: habitational name from a house distinguished by the sign of a gryphon, Middle High German grif(e) (Old High German grif(o), from Late Latin gryphus, Greek gryps, of Assyrian origin).
  2. German: nickname for a grasping man, the gryphon in folk etymology having come to be associated with Middle High German grifen ‘to grasp or snatch’.
  3. English: variant of Grief.

Grief
  1. English (Norfolk): from an Old Norse personal name Greifi, a byname from Old Norse greifi, Old Danish or Old Swedish grefe ‘count’, ‘earl’.
  2. French: nickname from Old French grief ‘sad’.
  3. German: variant spelling of Greif 1.


Nixon
  1. Northern English, Scottish, and northern Irish: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Nik(k)e, a short form of Nicholas.
  2. French: variant of a contracted form of Nickesson, a pet form of Nick, from Nicolas.

Nicholas
English and Dutch: from the personal name (Greek Nikolaos, from nikan ‘to conquer’ + laos ‘people’). Forms with -ch- are due to hypercorrection (compare Anthony). The name in various vernacular forms was popular among Christians throughout Europe in the Middle Ages, largely as a result of the fame of a 4th-century Lycian bishop, about whom a large number of legends grew up, and who was venerated in the Orthodox Church as well as the Catholic. In English-speaking countries, this surname is also found as an Americanized form of various Greek surnames such as Papanikolaou ‘(son of) Nicholas the priest’ and patronymics such as Nikolopoulos.

Nicolas
  1. Spanish (Nicolás), French, Dutch, Greek, etc: from the personal name Nicolas, the usual spelling of Greek Nikolaos in many languages (see Nicholas).
  2. English (common in Wales): variant spelling of Nicholas.




Mother's Side
Richard Geesey Sr.
    Married

Franklin Shoemaker
    Married Marie Porter Gerstenfeld daughter of Marie Porter?

    Richard Geesey Jr. was born on
        Married Joan Shoemaker on

        Lynn Marie Geesey born 15 Feb 1957.
            Married Dale Edward Unruh Sr. on 20 Jun 1981.
                  Two Sons: David Richard Unruh born May 14, 1977
                                   Dale Edward Unruh Jr.  born June 4, 1982 (This is me)

        Donna Marie Geesey born
           
                                            


Shoemaker
Translation of Dutch Schoemaker or German and Jewish Schumacher.

Schoemaker
Dutch: occupational name for a shoemaker, Middle Dutch scoemaker(e).

Schumacher
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a shoemaker, from Middle High German schuoch ‘shoe’, German Schuh + an agent derivative of machen ‘to make’.


Geesey
Americanized spelling of German Geese or Giese.

Geese
German: variant spelling of Giese.

Giese
German and Danish: from a short form of the personal name Giselbert (see Giesbrecht), or any other Germanic name with gisil as the first element.

Giesbrecht
German: from a personal name composed of Old High German gisil ‘hostage’, ‘pledge’, ‘noble offspring’ (see Giesel) + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’, a cognate of Giselbert.

Giesel
German: from the personal name Giesel, a short form of any of several Germanic personal names with the first element gisil ‘pledge’, ‘hostage’, ‘noble offspring’. In ancient and medieval Germanic society, the younger children of kings and princes were sometimes sent to be brought up at the court of a neighboring ruler, as a pledge of peace between the two nations or clans. Thus, the male personal name Gisil and its feminine equivalent Gisela mean both ‘pledge’ and ‘noble offspring’.