When Carolina Schmidt was born on 11 March 1843, in Lauf, Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, her father, Josef Schmidt, was 40 and her mother, Karolin Seiler, was 34. She married Johann Zimmer on 26 October 1863, in Lauf, Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Lauf, Bühl, Baden in 1843 and Justice Precinct 3, Knox, Texas, United States in 1900. She died on 4 October 1925, at the age of 82.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Knox, Texas, United States
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Erwin, Gerhard, Klaus, Helmut, Fritz, Manfred, Wolfgang, Ewald, Gunter.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Middle High German smit, German Schmied ‘blacksmith’. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in Denmark, France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine, also Nord), the Netherlands, Hungary, and Poland. It is also found in Slovakia, Czechia, Croatia, and Slovenia, where it is more common in Slavicized forms (see below). In part, Schmidt is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ).
Germanized form of Czech Šmíd and Šmít, Slovenian, Croatian, and Slovak Šmid or Šmit, surnames of German origin (see above and Smid 2 and Smit 3).
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