When Andreas Jacobson was born on 5 October 1832, in Örby, Älvsborg, Sweden, his father, Jacob Johansson Örn, was 52 and his mother, Anna Carlsdotter, was 47. He married Maria Kristina Andersson on 7 July 1855, in Örby, Älvsborg, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Örgryte, Göteborgs och Bohus, Sweden in 1885 and Fässberg, Göteborgs och Bohus, Sweden for about 22 years. He died on 7 May 1922, in Mölndal, Fässberg, Göteborgs och Bohus, Sweden, at the age of 89, and was buried in Mölndal, Fässberg, Göteborgs och Bohus, Sweden.
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The March Unrest, or the Marsoroligheterna, was a series of riots in Stockholm in March 1848, due to news of the French Revolution. As a mob gathered and plundered shops on March 19, the militia fired shots and 18 deaths. The army arrived on March 21 for reinforcement and terminated any further rioting.
Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Stockholm.
The Swedish krona replaced the Swedish riksdaler as the national currency in 1873.
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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