Agathe Gobertina (Whitehead) von Trapp (1891 - 1922)

Born 14 Jun 1891 in Modrus-Fiume, Ungarn (Hungary)

Ancestors

Wife of Georg Johannes Ritter (Von Trapp) von Trapp — married 14 Jan 1911 in Fiume, Austria-Hungary

Descendants

Died 3 Sep 1922 at age 31 in Klosterneuburg, Tulln, Niederösterreich, Österreich (Austria)

Biography

Agathe Gobertina (Whitehead) von Trapp was the first wife of Georg von Trapp, the patriarch of the Famous Trapp Family Sihgers.

Agathe Whitehead was born on 14 June 1891 in Fiume in Austria-Hungary. She was the granddaughter of Robert Whitehead (1823-1905), the wealthy British-born Austrian inventor of the torpedo. Her father was Cavaliere John Whitehead (1854-1902), son of Baron Robert Whitehead, and a partner at the family's Whitehead Torpedo Factory at Fiume, and her mother was Countess Agathe Gobertina (von Breunner-Enkevoirht) Whitehead (1856-1945)

Agathe Whitehead was schooled by tutors and learned to speak English, Italian, and German fluently. In 1914 she married naval Lieutenant Georg von Trapp. They had seven children. After the war the family relocated to Klosterneuburg, near Vienna, Austria.

Agathe von Trapp caught scarlet fever in January 1922 and never fully recovered; she died on September 3, 1922 in Klosterneuburg.^[1][2]

Several years later Georg von Trapp remarried and the family formed a musical group. They became famous as the von Trapp family singers, and toured extensively between the two world wars, including the United States and Scandinavia, returning to the USA prior to its entry in WWII. A story of the von Trapp children and their step-mother is told in the largely fictional musical movie The Sound of Music by Rodgers and Hammerstein.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Georg & Agathe Foundation (https://www.georgandagathe.org/history--georg---agathe.html (Georg & Agathe Foundation: Family Tree: Trapp - Hoffman - Thilenius - Metzler: accessed 21 Dec 2020).
2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 10 November 2020), memorial page for Agathe Whitehead von Trapp (14 Jun 1891–3 Sep 1922), Find a Grave Memorial no. 60832169, citing Unterer Stadtfriedhof, Klosterneuburg, Tulln Bezirk, Lower Austria (Niederösterreich), Austria ; Maintained by Paws ♥ (contributor 47049802) .
3. ↑ Trapp Family, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapp_Family : accessed 21 Dec 2020)

See also:

• Georg von Trapp, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_von_Trapp: accessed 21 Dec 2020).
• Maria von Trapp, Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_von_Trapp : accessed 21 Dec 2020).
• The Sound of Music, lyrics and music by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, 1959.