Barbara Schmitt is the only Schmitt that we know anything about. She was Walter Michael Windsor's great great grandmother. Nothing is known about her except that she was from Kuelsheim, which is in the Baden area.

The name Schmitt is one of the most common of all German names. It is the equivalent of Smith in America. The name probably came from the word for blacksmith.


Barbara Schmitt
Born about 1760 - 1780 in Kuelsheim, Germany.
Married Peter Adollf Winkopp after 1788.
Died after 1802 in Aschaffenberg, Germany.

Adolf Winkopp
Born in 1802 in Aschaffenburg, Germany, son of Barbara Schmitt and Peter Adolf Winkopp.
Married Maria Susannah Schreck on April 30, 1841 in Tauberbischofsheim, Germany.
Died January 17, 1865 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Franz Josef Alfred Winkopp
Born February 3, 1846 in Tauberbischofsheim, Germany, son of Maria Susannah Schreck and Adolf Winkopp.
Emigrated to the USA in 1868.
Married Caroline Blumlein about 1886 in New York.
Died January 18, 1919 in Brooklyn, New York.

Walter Winkopp
Born August 8, 1893 in Brooklyn, New York, son of Caroline Blumlein and Franz Josef Alfred Winkopp.
Married Helen May "Maude" Catoggio on February 25, 1918 in New York, New York.
Died July 8, 1978 in Orlando, Florida.

Walter Michael Windsor
Born September 22, 1918 in New York, New York, son of Walter Winkopp and Helen May "Maude" Catoggio.
Married Mary Garnett Johnson on November 29, 1947 in Danville, Virginia.
Died February 29, 2008 in Duluth, Georgia.