When Mette Sørensdatter Sommer was christened on 27 June 1723, in Sønder Tranders, Ålborghus, Denmark, her father, Søren Christensen Sommer, was 38 and her mother, Kirsten Jensdatter, was 37. She married Skrædersvend Jep Mathiasen about 1744, in Sønder Tranders, Fleskum, Ålborg, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died in 1788, in Sønder Tranders, Fleskum, Ålborg, Denmark, at the age of 65, and was buried in Sønder Tranders, Sønder Tranders, Fleskum, Ålborg, Denmark.
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Greenland becomes Danish province.
The Danish Asiatic Company was a trading company established to revive the dwindling Danish trade with the East Indies and China. It was taken over by the Danish government in 1772 and continued to run until around 1843.
The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters is a non-governmental science Academy founded in 1742 for the purpose of advancements of science in Denmark.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Fritz, Aloys, Helmut, Wolfram, Armin, Eldor, Erwin, Gerhard, Guenther.
German, Danish, and Norwegian: from Middle German sumer, Danish, Norwegian sommer ‘summer’, a nickname for someone with a warm or sunny disposition, or for someone associated with the season of summer in some other way, e.g. because he was born or found (as a foundling) in this part of the year, or through a tax or rent obligation, or from living in a sunny place.
German: occupational name from Middle High German soumǣre, sommer, Middle Low German somer(e) ‘pack animal’, or a leader of those.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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