When Theresia Fritz was born on 7 February 1889, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, her father, Stephen Fritz, was 37 and her mother, Anna Maria Haas, was 38. She was buried in Evergreen Park, Cook, Illinois, United States.
German: from a pet form of the personal name Friedrich . This form of the surname is also found in Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, and France (Alsace and Lorraine), and also in central European countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, Czechia, and Slovakia, where it is more often spelled in the Slavicized form Fric (see below).
Americanized or Germanized form of Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Fric: from the personal name Fric, a pet form, of German origin (see above), of Old Czech and Slovak Fridrich, Slovenian Friderik, Croatian Fridrik, equivalents of German Friedrich .
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