Later Swishers moved to Licking, Ohio in the 1820’s. David Swisher of this family started a cigar business in nearby Newark, Ohio in 1861. This proved to be a great success and is still going strong today. Texas. Henry Swisher was a German immigrant to Pennsylvania who married Annie Gibs...
George Newton was the co-founder of Newton Chambers, one of the largest industrial enterprises in England in the 19th century. Sergeant John Newton was a fictionalized hero of the American Revolutionary War. Helmut Newton, born Helmut Neustadter, was a noted German-Australian fashion photographer ...
Auto-da-fé, a judicial ‘act’ or sentence of theInquisition fromauto da fé(= "act/sentence of faith") Banana from Spanish or Portuguese (more probably from Portuguese, as the most widespread Spanish word isplátano); Spanish, from Portuguese, of African origin; akin to Wolofbanänabanana...
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When Jewish people were obligated to take surnames in the early 19th century, they often chose ornamental names.The German wordsteinor “stone” was a popular suffix, as with Bernstein – meaning “amber” plus “stone.” Bernstein and Berenstein were surname variants in Lithuania. Some Bernstein...
Peter and the patronymic Peters derived from the Greek wordpetros, meaning “a rock,” and became well-established names because of St. Peter, the apostle of the New Testament.Petrieis a Scottish variant. The Dutch and north German version was Pieters which often became Peters in America. The...
The Adams name has been particularly prevalent in NW Germany and Holland. German Adams have formed a significant part of the Adams immigration to America. Adams Surname Resources on The Internet Adams and Adam Surname Ancestry from England and Scotland ...
son of Captain John Newton, who was in his early life, like his father, a slave trader. However, during a stormy sea voyage in 1748, John Newton underwent a conversion, became an Anglican priest, wroteAmazing Grace, and took up the abolition cause. Blind in later life, he died in ...
West Germanic languages, group of Germanic languages that developed in the region of the North Sea, Rhine-Weser, and Elbe. Out of the many local West Germanic dialects the following six modern standard languages have arisen: English, Frisian, Dutch (Netherlandic-Flemish), Afrikaans, German, and...
in the German Saterland (some 1,000 speakers; this area was apparently settled in the 12th or 13th century from the former East Frisian area to the north), and (3) North Frisian, along the west coast of German Schleswig and on the offshore islands of Sylt, Föhr, Amrum, the Halligen...