When Olaus Johannessen Roksvåg Dybbugt was born on 5 November 1854, in Bremsnes, Averøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway, his father, Johannes Olsen Rosvåg, was 35 and his mother, Marcelia or Marselia Sivertsen Løvøen, was 30. He married Randi Maria Samuelsdatter Møkkelbostad on 25 June 1885, in Bremsnes, Averøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died in 1908, at the age of 54.
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from an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements anu ‘ancestor’ + leifr ‘heir, descendant’. St Olaf , King of Norway ( 995–1030 ), aided the spread of Christianity in his kingdom. The name was introduced to Britain before the Norman Conquest, but modern use as a given name in the English-speaking world originated in America, where it was taken by recent Scandinavian immigrants.
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