When Jacob Severin Christensen Holm was born on 16 August 1834, in Mosbjerg, Horns, Hjørring, Denmark, his father, Christen Pedersen, was 34 and his mother, Kirsten Pedersdatter, was 38. He died on 15 March 1835, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Mosbjerg, Horns, Hjørring, Denmark.
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Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Lars, Anders, Thor, Holger, Nels, Nils, Sven, Helmer, Lennart, Niels, Vibeke.
English, Scottish, German, and Scandinavian: topographic name for someone who lived on an island, in particular a piece of slightly raised land lying in a fen or partly surrounded by streams, from Middle English, Middle Low German holm, Old Norse holmr, or else a habitational name from a place called with this element. The Swedish name is often ornamental.
English: topographic name for someone who lived where holly grew, from Middle English holm, a divergent development of Old English hole(g)n ‘holly (tree)’; or, especially in southern England, a habitational name from any of the places such as East and West Holme (Dorset) or Holne (Devon). Compare Hollis .
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