When Brita Caroline Jakobsdatter Kvamme was born on 7 October 1889, in Innvik, Stryn, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, her father, Jakob Andersen, was 41 and her mother, Eli Kristoffersdatter, was 36. She married Anders Johnsen on 24 August 1920. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She died on 26 June 1970, in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway, at the age of 80.
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Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Torvald, Lief, Sig.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads,especially in Vestlandet, named Kvamme, from the dative singular ofOld Norse hvammr ‘little valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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