Brief Life History of Bodil
When Bodil Hansdotter Mörk was born in 1567, in Saltum, Hvetbo, Hjørring, Denmark, her father, Hans Lauersen Mørk, was 52 and her mother, Johanne Vognsdatter, was 33. She married Morten Pedersen Kjærulf about 1588. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died after 4 February 1640, in Øster Halne, Vadum, Kær, Ålborg, Denmark, and was buried in Vadum, Kær, Ålborg, Denmark.
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- Bodeld Hansdatter in entry for Birgite Hansen, "Denmark Burials, 1640-1917"
- Kjaerulf Studies
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1626
The Thirty Years' War. The Danish army is defeated.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Lars, Bent, Erik, Gudrun, Hjalmer, Jarl, Jorgen, Nils, Viggo.
Danish (Mørk) and Swedish (Mörk): nickname for someone with dark hair or a swarthy complexion, from Danish mørk, Swedish mörk ‘dark’ (Old Norse myrkr, whence also the English word murk(y)).
Norwegian: habitational name from any of about 20 farmsteads so named, from Old Norse mǫrk ‘outlying pasture, wood’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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