Herzogin Elisabeth Alexandrine Mathilde von Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Brief Life History of Elisabeth Alexandrine Mathilde

When Herzogin Elisabeth Alexandrine Mathilde von Mecklenburg-Schwerin was born on 10 August 1869, in Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, her father, Grossherzog Friedrich Franz Alexander von Mecklenburg-Schwerin II, was 46 and her mother, Prinzessin Marie Karoline Auguste von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, was 19. She married Großherzog Friedrich August von Oldenburg Holstein-Gottorp on 24 October 1896, in Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Schwerin. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 3 September 1955, in Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States, at the age of 86.

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Family Time Line

Großherzog Friedrich August von Oldenburg Holstein-Gottorp
1852–1931
Herzogin Elisabeth Alexandrine Mathilde von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1869–1955
Marriage: 24 October 1896
Erbgroßherzog Nikolaus Friedrich Wilhelm von Oldenburg
1897–1970
Alexandrine von Oldenburg
1900–1900
Friedrich August von Oldenburg
1900–1900
Herzogin Ingeborg Alix von Oldenburg
1901–1996
Herzogin Altburg Marie Mathilde Olga von Oldenburg Holstein-Gottorp
1903–2001

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  • Elisabeth Alexandrine Mathilde Auguste von Mecklenburg, „Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971“
  • Elisabeth in entry for Altburg, "Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Immigration Cards, 1900-1965"
  • Elisabeth in entry for Altburg Princeza de Waldeck Pyrmont, "Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Immigration Cards, 1900-1965"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1890

Young William (Wilhelm) II dismisses Bismarck.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

Altered form of Welsh Vaughan .

Chinese: variant of Wong .

Cambodian: written វ៉ុន, unexplained.

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

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