Brief Life History of Fredericke
When Fredericke Frank was born on 25 February 1864, in Bellville, Austin, Texas, United States, her father, Friedrich Fritz Frank, was 45 and her mother, Anne Marie Sophie Dorothea Wendt, was 37. She married Reinhardt Weise on 31 January 1888, in Austin, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Austin, Texas, United States in 1870 and Justice Precinct 1, Austin, Texas, United States for about 20 years. She died on 6 January 1944, in Bellville, Austin, Texas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Buckhorn, Austin, Texas, United States.
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Sources (11)
- Fredricka Weise in household of Reinhold Weise, "United States Census, 1900"
- Friederike Frank, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
- Fredericke Weise, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
Spouse and Children
1859–1930 Male
1864–1944 Female
Children (2)
1895–1983 Male
1905–1998 Female
Parents and Siblings
1818–1883 Male
1826–1902 Female
Siblings (10)
1853–1943 Male
1854–1937 Male
1856–1929 Female
1857–1926 Male
1858–1893 Male
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World Events (8)
1865
Age 1
1873
Age 9
1886
Age 22
Name Meaning
German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Slovenian, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): ethnic or habitational name for someone from Franconia (German Franken), a region of southwestern Germany so called from its early settlement by the Franks, an ancient Germanic people who inhabited the lands around the River Rhine in Roman times. In the 6th–9th centuries, under leaders such as Clovis I (c. 466–511) and Charlemagne (742–814), the Franks established a substantial empire in western Europe, from which the country of France takes its name.
English (of Norman origin), Dutch, and German: from the personal name Frank (Norman French Franco, ancient Germanic Franko), in origin an ethnic name for a Frank, or from German Franke ‘Frank(ish), Franconian’ (compare 1 above). This also came to be used as an adjective meaning ‘free, open-hearted, generous’ (Middle English and Old French franc ‘free’, i.e. not a serf or slave), deriving from the fact that in Frankish Gaul only people of Frankish race enjoyed the status of fully free men. As a surname of German origin it is also found (in both possible meanings; see 1 above) in France (Alsace and Lorraine). Compare Franc and Franck .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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