SURNAME
DIEDRICH
North German and Dutch: from a regional form of the Germanic personal name Dietrich.
Dietrich German: from the Germanic personal name Tederich (Theudoricus), composed of the elements theud ‘people’, ‘race’ + ric ‘power(ful)’, ‘rich’. This surname is common throughout central and eastern Europe, particularly in the western Slavic countries. The forename occurs in a wide variety of local forms, especially in northern Germany. It is cognate with Dutch Diederik (see Dederick).
Coat of Arms
The sumame Diedrich appears to be patronymical in origin. Research indicates that it can be associated with the Germans, meaning, "descendant of Theodoricus". Although this interpretation is the result of onomastic research, you may find other meanings for the Diedrich family name.
Around 1870 Charles Frederick William Amandus Diedrich probably emmigrated to Australia to live in Victoria under one of the Assisted German immigrant Schemes, probably as an assisted trades person aboard a ship using blue slate for balast, sometime prior to 1877 when he married local girl Emily Jessie Andrew. His son Alfred then became a slater and then his son Fredrick and then Fredricks son Ivan. Ivan then Broke with tradition becoming a carriage builder for the early Nsw rail authority and then later in the 1960's a salesman of lighting products.
Bradley Richard Allan Diedrich
ANCESTORS
Harold Percival Diedrich
