When Karen Christensdatter was christened on 14 October 1787, in Ydby, Refs, Thisted, Denmark, her father, Christen Jensen, was 30 and her mother, Karen Clausdatter, was 28. She died on 13 May 1788, in Ydby, Vestervig, Denmark, at the age of 0, and was buried in Ydby, Vestervig, Denmark.
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equivalent of Katherine . It was first introduced to the English-speaking world by Scandinavian settlers in America; it has been used in Britain only since the 1940s, but had become very popular by the 1960s.
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