Matilda Schmidt

Brief Life History of Matilda

When Matilda Schmidt was born about 1904, in California, United States, her father, Peter P Schmidt, was 47 and her mother, Eva C. Huck, was 41. She lived in Tulare Judicial Township, San Joaquin, California, United States for about 10 years. She died on 27 September 1992, at the age of 89.

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Family Time Line

Peter P Schmidt
1858–1927
Eva C. Huck
1864–1945
Schmidt
1889–
Elsie M. Schmidt
1902–
Matilda Schmidt
1904–1992
Margaret M Schmidt
1890–1963
Jessie Frances Schmidt
1892–1957
Frank U. Schmidt
1896–
Eva Marie Schmidt
1897–1984
Christina Schmidt
1899–
Julia Schmidt
1906–

Sources (3)

  • Matilda Schmidt in household of Peter P Schmidt, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Bothilda Voss, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
  • Tillie Schmidt in household of Peter Schmidt, "United States Census, 1910"

World Events (8)

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Erwin, Gerhard, Klaus, Helmut, Fritz, Manfred, Wolfgang, Ewald, Gunter.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Middle High German smit, German Schmied ‘blacksmith’. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in Denmark, France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine, also Nord), the Netherlands, Hungary, and Poland. It is also found in Slovakia, Czechia, Croatia, and Slovenia, where it is more common in Slavicized forms (see below). In part, Schmidt is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ).

Germanized form of Czech Šmíd and Šmít, Slovenian, Croatian, and Slovak Šmid or Šmit, surnames of German origin (see above and Smid 2 and Smit 3).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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