When Conrad Carl Sturm was born on 16 January 1851, in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, his father, Ludwig Carl Joachim Sturm, was 34 and his mother, Dorothea Anna Kuster, was 31. He married Adeline Henrietta Haveker on 24 October 1878, in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 24 May 1907, in Blumberg, South Australia, Australia, at the age of 56, and was buried in Payneham South, South Australia, Australia.
German: nickname for a man of blustery temperament, from Middle High German sturm ‘storm’. This form of the surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and Czechia (see also 2 below).
Slovenian, Croatian, Czech, and Slovak (Šturm): nickname from šturm, an (obsolete) word of German origin meaning ‘storm’, also ‘uproar’ (see 1 above).
Dutch: variant of Storm .
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