Brief Life History of Dorothea
When Dorothea Fick was born about 1767, in Germany, her father, Johann Philipp Fick, was 21 and her mother, Dorothea Meiss, was 28. She married Johann Jakob Schmidt about 1791, in Batschka, Bács-Bodrog, Hungary. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 1 February 1833, in Batschka, Bács-Bodrog, Hungary, at the age of 67.
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Spouse and Children
1758–1823 Male
1767–1833 Female
Children (1)
1791–1823 Male
Parents and Siblings
1747–1797 Male
1740–1782 Female
Siblings (3)
1767–1833 Female
1769– Male
1772–1805 Male
World Events (2)
1813 · Germans defeat Napolean in Leipzig
Age 46
1814
Age 47
Name Meaning
North German: from a pet form of the personal name Friedrich .
English: perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English fik, fig, a derivative of Middle English fiken ‘to move quickly or restlessly, to shrink, flinch, retreat hurriedly’. The sense might be ‘fidgety (person)’; compare modern English dialect fig and fidge ‘to move restlessly, fidget’, and see also Figg . Alternatively, this may be a nickname from unrecorded Middle English fik, perhaps from Old English gefic ‘deceit’ or back-formed from Middle English fikel ‘deceitful’ (Old English ficol). See Ficker .
English (of Norman origin): from Old French fike, a Norman French variant of Old French fiche ‘pointed implement for fixing or transfixing something or someone’. See Fitch .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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