When Olaf Martiniusen Lørdal was born on 20 June 1900, in Hof, Vestfold, Norway, his father, Martinius Martinsen Lørdal, was 27 and his mother, Maren Andrine Gulliksdatter Næs, was 25. He married Maren Lovise Hansen on 5 October 1924, in Hof, Vestfold and Telemark, Norway. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died in 1948, in Hof, Vestfold, Norway, at the age of 48, and was buried in Hof, Vestfold, Norway.
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Birth year of Åsta Holth. Well-known Norwegian author who was born at Svullrya in Hedmark county. She was of Forest Finnish descent. Many of her written works were about the residents of Finnskogen. Norwegian novelist, poet and short story writer.
Swedish-Norwegian union was legally dissolved. Norway became a free country in 1905. Danish Prince, Carl Fredrik, became King of Norway, and chose as his name, King Håkon VII. From then on the king was a titular head only.
Birth year of Gerhard Naeseth Well-known Genealogist who specialized in Norwegian-Americans and Norwegian immigration. Director and founder of the Vesterheim Genealogical Center, now called the Norwegian-American Genealogical Center and Naeseth Library in Madison, Wisconsin.
from an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements anu ‘ancestor’ + leifr ‘heir, descendant’. St Olaf , King of Norway ( 995–1030 ), aided the spread of Christianity in his kingdom. The name was introduced to Britain before the Norman Conquest, but modern use as a given name in the English-speaking world originated in America, where it was taken by recent Scandinavian immigrants.
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