Brief Life History of Voldberg Thomasdatter
When Voldberg Thomasdatter Werlin was born about 1719, in Lillebrænde, Nykøbing, Denmark, her father, Thomas Thomassen Werlin, was 43 and her mother, Arrine Andersdatter, was 39.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Woldborre Thomsen, "Denmark, Baptisms, 1618-1923"
Parents and Siblings
World Events (8)
1729
Greenland becomes Danish province.
1730 · Danish Asia Company
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.
1762 · Old City Hall (Aalborg)
The Old City Hall was built in 1762 and served as the city hall until 1912. the Hall was modelled after the City Hall that was destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire in 1795. Today the building is used only for ceremonial and representative purposes.
Name Meaning
Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German: habitational name from the city of Berlin, capital of Germany. This city takes its name from a West Slavic word meaning ‘river rake’, a scaffold of beams built over a river to prevent logs from jamming; the river in question is the Spree. Folk etymology, however, has put a bear into the arms of the city, as if the name were derived from Bärlin, a diminutive of Bär ‘bear’. The German name is also found in the Hamburg area, where it may be derived from the village of the same name, but of uncertain origin, in Holstein. In some cases the Jewish name may be a patronymic from a pet form of the Yiddish personal name Ber (see Berenson ), formed with the Slavic possessive suffix -in.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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