When Helle Nielsen Sonderman was born in 1736, in Randers, Denmark, her father, Niels Jensen Sondermand, was 29 and her mother, Mette Nielsdatter, was 26. She died in 1741, at the age of 5.
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Meyercrones Stiftelse was founded by the widow of Henning de Meyercrone after he had served as Danish envoy in France. Christiane Meyercrone, Henning's widow, managed the property until her death in 1738. Her niece became the new manager of the foundation and arranged for its charter to be written in 1830. The original, small building was replaced by a larger building in 1933.
Americanized form of German Sondermann:
from Middle Low German sunderman ‘bondsman’.
topographic name denoting someone who lived to the south of a settlement, from Middle High German sunder ‘southern’ + man ‘man’, or for a farmer who owned his own land.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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