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This page lists Americans of Baltic German descent. Pages in category "American people of Baltic German descent" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of ...
In the course of their 700-year history, Baltic German families had ethnic German roots, but also intermarried extensively with Estonians, Livonians and Latvians, as well as with other Northern or Central European peoples, such as Danes, Swedes, Irish, English, Scots, Poles, Hungarians and Dutch.
The extended Frey family in Latvia. Three of their children emigrated to Corner Brook: Edith Tietjens, Horst Frey, and Heimtrud Rodsewicz. The adults in these Latvian and the Baltic German families, born in Latvia between 1896 and 1920, came from families of landowners, the intelligentsia, or the merchant and professional classes.
The German name of the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary. [32] Caroline County: Virginia: Named after Caroline of Ansbach. Cassel: Wisconsin: Named after Kassel, Germany. Catherine: Kansas: Named after the Volga German town of Katharinenstadt. [33] Charlotte: North Carolina: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, of the ruling family of a duchy in ...
American people of Baltic German descent (13 P) ... (16 P) F. American families of German ancestry (73 C, 16 P) G. German American Bund members (11 P)
The Hoffman family of New York is a prominent Baltic German family whose ancestor Martin Hoffman was born in Reval (now Tallinn), then the capital of Swedish Estonia.He emigrated to the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1657.
American people of Baltic German descent ... Beerbohm family (14 P) E. Estonian people of Baltic German descent (1 C, 25 P) F. Finnish people of Baltic German descent ...
Some German-speaking African-Americans were adopted by white German-American families. Other Black German-Americans were immigrants from Germany. In the 1870 Census, 15 Black immigrants from Germany were listed living in New Orleans. Afro-German immigrants were also listed on the census living in Memphis, New York City, Charleston, and Cleveland.