When Maren Malund was christened on 8 November 1739, in Åle, Åle, Skanderborg, Denmark, her father, Anders Nielsen Smed, was 43 and her mother, Anne Jensdatter, was 34.
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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.
Hirschholm Palace was a royal palace located in present-day Horsholm municipality just north of Copenhagen. It was one of the finest buildings of its time and became known as the Versailles of the North. It developed a bad reputation in connection with its role in the affair between Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Mathilda in the 1770s. After that it fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1809.
1799-territory was merged into the Århus county. Skanderborg as a county ceased to exist.
Norwegian (Måland): habitational name from a farm name composed of Old Norse mór ‘moor, heath’ + land ‘(piece of) land, farmstead’.
Americanized form of Norwegian Mæland (see Meland ).
English (Staffordshire): variant of Mayland .
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