When Lisette Schmitt was born on 31 March 1824, her father, Peter Schmidt, was 18 and her mother, Anna Maria Hupertz, was 19.
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On May 25, 1852, the Book of Mormon is published in German.
War: Prussia and Austria vs. Denmark.
Young William (Wilhelm) II dismisses Bismarck.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Erwin, Hans, Dieter, Gerhard, Alfons, Bernhard, Franz, Heinz, Helmut, Otto, Bernd.
South German: variant of Schmidt ‘blacksmith’. This form of the surname is also common in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine).
Germanized form of Slovenian and Croatian Šmit, Czech Šmít, surnames of German origin (compare above, see Smit 3).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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