When Elsebe Madsdatter Kofoed was born on 24 May 1688, in Svaneke, Bornholm, Denmark, her father, Mads Poulsen Kofoed, was 26 and her mother, Elizabeth Davidsdatter Wolfsen, was 22. She married Carl Olufsen on 7 January 1707, in Svaneke, Bornholm, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1736, in Rønne, Bornholm, Denmark, at the age of 48, and was buried in Rønne, Bornholm, Denmark.
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1688–1736 Female
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Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Anders, Nanna.
Danish: from ko ‘cow’ + fod ‘foot’, hence a nickname for someone with a club foot or other deformity of the foot. Compare Kofford .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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