When Aren Jacobson was born in 1690, in Korgen, Hemnes, Nordland, Norway, his father, Jacob Bendtsoen, was 40 and his mother, Marit Andersdatter, was 30. He married Kirsten Olsdatter in 1735, in Hemnes, Nordland, Norway. He died in 1738, in Nordland, Norway, at the age of 48, and was buried in Nordland, Norway.
English, Swedish, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Jacob denoting ‘Jacob's son’. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, including Scandinavian (see 2 below) and, in some cases, Croatian Jakobović (which is from the personal name Jakob ).
Americanized form of Swedish Jacobsson or Jakobsson and Danish, Norwegian, North German, or Dutch Jacobsen or Jakobsen , all cognates of 1 above.
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