Martin August BICK married Amelia SCHROEDER
Chazza
Descendants of Martin August Bick
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1-Martin August Bick b. 23 Nov 1869, d. 20 Jul 1917, Q'land.
+Amelia Schroeder b. 20 Dec 1872, m. 8 May 1891, Q'land., d. 23 May 1967, bur. Tarampa Baptist Cemetery., par. Frederich Wilhelm Heinrich 'Wilhelm' Schroder and Wilhelmina Caroline Christine Kuhn
|--2-Wilhelm Friedrich Bick b. 7 Oct 1892, Q'land., d. 18 Jul 1984
|--2-Anna Augusta Bick b. 13 Jul 1894, d. 14 Sep 1955
|--2-Emma Augusta Bick b. 4 Aug 1897
|--2-August Bick b. 22 Mar 1906, d. 27 Mar 1906
|--2-Alice Louisa Bick b. 5 Jun 1908, d. 19 Mar 1980, Q'land.
|--2-Hermann 'Harry' Bick b. 30 Dec 1910, Ipswich, Q'land., d. 21 Aug 1967
|--2-Doris Ruby Bick b. 11 Feb 1914
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by Chazza
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Trying to connect all Profke's who arrived into Queensland - can you help?
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Chazza on 2009-08-01 22:35:53The name that we know as SCHRODER or SCHROEDER was originally written in German as SCHR?DER. The umlaut (the two dots over the o) is actually the remnants of the letter e that used to be written over the o. Thus in German the letter ? is totally equivalent to the combination oe. Similarly the other umlauted letters ? and ? are equivalent to ae and ue respectively.
So, when an ancestor named SCHR?DER arrived in Australia, most English speakers, being ignorant of the meaning of the umlaut would simply omit it and write the name as SCHRODER. The immigrant might write it as SCHROEDER (which is correct) or as SCHR?DER (which is also correct). We
can imagine, however, that it would be quite likely that the spelling
SCHR?DER to be wrongly recorded in official documents as SCHRODER.
Hopefully this might explain why two brothers, for example, might have their surnames spelled differently!