Brief Life History of Albert Frederick Wilhelm
When Albert Frederick Wilhelm Schmidt was born on 20 April 1892, in Logan Reserve, Queensland, Australia, his father, August Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidt, was 31 and his mother, Maria Muchow, was 26. He married Rose Ethel Thurling on 30 November 1921, in Queensland, Australia. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He died on 21 September 1968, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, at the age of 76.
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1901
First Federal election.
1901
The Australian flag flown for the first time.
1914
August: Australia becomes involved in World War One as Britain is preparing to declare war on Germany.
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).
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