When Helje Haavorsdatter was born about 1761, in Gjerstad, Aust-Agder, Norway, her father, Haavor Rollefsen, was 32 and her mother, Aasild Olsdatter, was 36. She married Rollef Torbjørnsen on 19 June 1796, in Gjerstad, Aust-Agder, Norway. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1809, in Gjerstad, Aust-Agder, Norway, at the age of 49, and was buried in Gjerstad, Aust-Agder, Norway.
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It listed all family members living on each farm. Also those living in the cities.
From an early medieval personal name, a derivative of heilagr ‘prosperous’. The popularity of the name greatly increased with the subsequent change in meaning of the vocabulary word to ‘blessed, holy’.
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