The Story of von trapp family
The following is the story of von trapp family (Maria vonTrapp)
Memories of Maria von Trapp, born in 1914, third child of Agathe Whitehead von Trapp and Captain von Trapp. The Trapp Family Singers had one father, Georg Ritter von Trapp, and two mothers. The first was Agathe Whitehead who had seven children: Rupert, Agathe, Maria (me), Werner, Hedwig, Johanna and Martina.

They met and married in Fiume, now called Rijeka, but built a home in Pola, where Father was stationed as a U-boat commander. This is where my first two siblings, Rupert and Agathe, were born.
Agathe Whitehead was the granddaughter of Robert Whitehead, the inventor of the torpedo. After the English government rejected his invention, the Austrian Emperor, Franz Josef, invited him to open a torpedo factory in Fiume, now Rijeka, Croatia. [Read the rest of this entry...]
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