When Anna Catharina Barbara Schmidt was born on 13 April 1740, in Baden, Germany, her father, Johann Michael Schmidt, was 26 and her mother, Maria Barbara Elisabetha Engelhorn, was 31. She married Johann Peter Zwicker Jr on 8 June 1759, in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, British North America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 3 October 1780, in Mahone Bay, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, British North America, at the age of 40, and was buried in Mahone Bay, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, British North America.
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The siege of Louisbourg in present day Cape Breton Island started on May 11, 1745. There was already 1500 British troops there soon 200 French arrived to fight them. Many of the fisheries in the area were destroyed which hurt the province. The battle lasted until June 28, 1745, when the French surrendered.
October 2, 1758, the Nova Scotia legislature was established. They met in a wooden building and consisted of 22 men.
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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