Brief Life History of Sophia
When Sophia Olavison was born on 17 December 1806, in Lilla Svedala, Skåne, Sweden, her father, Olaus Christiansson, was 24 and her mother, Matta Persson, was 28. She married Åstrad Andersson on 1 December 1826. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died in 1850, at the age of 44.
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Family Time Line
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- Sophia Alverson in entry for Bengta Anderson, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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Children (6)
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World Events (4)
1809
Sweden declared independence. Constitutional monarchy established. Russia took Aland Island group from Sweden.
1814
Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden.
1832
Göta Canal opened.
Name Meaning
From the Greek word meaning ‘wisdom’. The Eastern cult of St Sophia arose as a result of misinterpretation of the phrase Hagia Sophia ‘holy wisdom’ as if it meant ‘St Sophia’. The name became popular in England in the 17th and 18th centuries—the heroine of Fielding's novel Tom Jones ( 1749 ) is called Sophia Weston—and has been increasing in popularity since the 1990s. In Scotland it has been used as an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Beathag .
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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