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Where did the German Mertz family come from? What is the German Mertz family crest and coat of arms? When did the Mertz family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Mertz family history?

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Spelling variations of this family name include: Mertz, Merttz, Mertze, Merts, Mertzes, Merttz, Mertts, Merrtz, Meertz, Meertze, Merts and many more.

First found in the Rhineland, where this family was a prominent contributor to the development of the district from ancient times. Always influential in social affairs, the name Mertz became an integral part of that turbulent region as it forged alliances with other families within the region and the nation.


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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Mertz research. Another 191 words(14 lines of text) covering the years 1646 and 1740 are included under the topic Early Mertz History in all our PDF Extended History products.

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More information is included under the topic Early Mertz Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Mertz Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century


  • Anna Catharina Mertz, who arrived in New York in 1710
  • Anna Catharina Mertz, who settled in New York in 1710
  • Anna Elisabeth Mertz, who came to Pennsylvania in 1732
  • Anna Dorothea Mertz, who settled in Pennsylvania in 1732
  • Anna Dorothea Mertz, who came to Pennsylvania in 1732


Mertz Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century


  • Karl Mertz, who landed in Ohio in 1835
  • Olway Mertz, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pa in 1844
  • Carl Conrad Mertz, who landed in Texas in 1845
  • Peter Mertz, who arrived in Galveston, Tex in 1846
  • Theophilus Mertz, aged 24, landed in Missouri in 1846


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  • Harold J "Bud" Mertz, co-creator of the Hybrid III crash test dummy which is now the only recognized test device in both North America and Europe
  • Barbara Mertz (b. 1927), American author
  • Stephen Mertz (b. 1947), American fiction author
  • Dolores M. Mertz (b. 1928), the Iowa State Representative
  • LuEsther T. Mertz (1905-1991), an American businesswoman and philanthropist,
  • Henriette Mertz (1898-1985), American patent attorney and ancient history researcher from Chicago
  • Johann Kaspar Mertz, Hungarian Slovak composer
  • Xavier Guillaume Mertz (1883-1913), Swiss explorer


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  1. Rietstap, Johannes Baptist. Armorial Général. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Print.
  2. Egle, William Henry. Pennsylvania Genealogies Scotch-Irish and German. Harrisburg: L.S. Hart, 1886. Print.
  3. Kapff, Rudolf. Schwäbische Geschlechtsnamen. Stuttgart: Verlag Silberburg, 1927. Print.
  4. Göbel, Otto. Niederdeutsche Familiennamen der Gegenwart Wolfshagen-Schäbentz. Franz: Westphal, 1936. Print.
  5. Bahlow, Hans. Abhandlungen zur Namenforschung und Buchgeschichte. 1980. Print. (ISBN 978-3768690522).
  6. Gritzner, M. Handbuch der heraldischen Terminologie in zwölf Zungen. Nürnberg: 1890. Print.
  7. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard and David Faris. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 7th Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0806313676).
  8. Crozier, William Armstrong Edition. Crozier's General Armory A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor. New York: Fox, Duffield, 1904. Print.
  9. Hanks, Patricia and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Print. (ISBN 0-19-211592-8).
  10. Bahlow, Hans (Edda Gentry trns). Dictionary of German Names . Madison, Wisconsin: Max Kade Institute, 2002. Print. (ISBN 0-924119-35-7).
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The Mertz Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Mertz Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.

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