When Brita Persdotter was born on 29 March 1749, in Gaxås, Anderstorp, Jönköping, Sweden, her father, Per Svensson, was 42 and her mother, Kerstin Svensdotter, was 51. She married Sven Persson about 1771, in Anderstorp, Jönköping, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 23 December 1844, in Anderstorp, Jönköping, Sweden, at the age of 95.
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Sweden declared independence. Constitutional monarchy established. Russia took Aland Island group from Sweden.
Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden.
Göta Canal opened.
Borrowing of the Irish name Brighid ( see Bridget ). This name owes its enormous popularity in Scandinavia, especially in Sweden, to St Birgitta ( 1304–73 ), patron saint of Sweden. She was a noblewoman who bore her husband eight children. After his death, she founded an order of nuns, the ‘Bridgettines’ or Order of the Most Holy Saviour. She also went to Rome, where she attempted to reform religious life.
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