When Sophia Elizabeth Margaret Schwartz was born in 1745, in Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, her father, Johann Carl Schwartz, was 30 and her mother, Anna Margretha Stahlschmitt, was 34. She married Johann Lorentz Conrad on 5 January 1761, in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, British North America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 16 October 1803, in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, British North America, at the age of 58.
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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: Jewish Hyman, Emanuel, Meyer, Chaim, Isadore, Moshe, Aron, Ari, Mayer, Hershel.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for someone with black hair or a dark complexion, from Middle High German swarz, German schwarz, Yiddish shvarts ‘dark, black’. In some cases this may be a habitational name from any of the places called Schwarz, named with the same word. This form of the surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, etc. Compare Schwarcz , Schwarz , Shwartz , Swarts , and Swartz .
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