Margarethe Oswald

Female2 January 1822–14 April 1877

Brief Life History of Margarethe

Margarethe Oswald was born on 2 January 1822, in Kiel, Schwesing, Ostenfeld (Husum), Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She married August Frierdrich Wilhelm Dreger about 1851, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She died on 14 April 1877, in Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States.

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Family Time Line

August Frierdrich Wilhelm Dreger
1824–1863
Margarethe Oswald
1822–1877
Marriage: about 1851
Wilhelmine Susanna Dreger
1852–1912
Caroline Dreger
1854–1855
Mary Dreger
1855–1920

Sources (10)

  • Margt Dreger in household of August Dreger, "New York State Census, 1855"
  • August Dreger, "New York, State Census, 1855"
  • New Jersey index to records of births, marriages, and deaths, 1848-1900

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    about 1851New York, United States
  • Children (3)

    World Events (8)

    1824 · Property Value is Estimated

    Age 2

    In 1824, the value of real estate in Brooklyn was estimated as $2,111,390 and personal property was estimated as $438,690.

    1825 · The Crimes Act

    Age 3

    The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.

    1840

    Age 18

    Historical Boundaries 1840: Hudson, New Jersey, United States

    Name Meaning

    Scottish (Fife and Lanarkshire), northern English, German, and French (mainly Alsace and Lorraine): from an Old English personal name composed of the elements ōs ‘god’ + weald ‘power’. In the Middle English period, this fell together with the less common Old Norse cognate Ásvaldr. The name was introduced to Germany from England, as a result of the fame of Saint Oswald, a 7th-century king of Northumbria, whose deeds were reported by Celtic missionaries to southern Germany. The name was also borne by a 10th-century English saint of Danish parentage, who was important as a monastic reformer. Veneration of Saint Oswald, the king, spread from the German lands to the neighbouring Slavic lands as well. The surname in the (German) spelling Oswald is thus also found especially in Czechia and Slovakia, while in North America it also absorbed various Slavic forms (see 3 below).

    Irish (Down): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó hEodhusa (see Hussey 1).

    Americanized form of Slovenian, Slovak, and Czech Osvald, Slovenian and Slovak Ožvald or Ozvald, and probably also of Slovenian Ožbolt: from vernacular forms of the German personal name Oswald, of Old English origin (see 1 above).

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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