Brief Life History of Lars
When Lars Anderson Råström was born on 5 February 1769, in Råby-Rönö, Södermanland, Sweden, his father, Anders Larson, was 34 and his mother, Annika Persdotter- Rastrom, was 40. He married Brita Öman in 1799, in Ripsa, Södermanland, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died on 20 December 1859, in Ripsa, Södermanland, Sweden, at the age of 90.
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- Råby Rönö, Södermanlan birth record
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World Events (5)
1809
Sweden declared independence. Constitutional monarchy established. Russia took Aland Island group from Sweden.
1814
Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden.
1832
Göta Canal opened.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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