Brief Life History of Alma Maria Victoria
When Alma Maria Victoria Axtelius was born on 16 November 1881, in Löt, Kalmar, Sweden, her father, Alfred Axtelius, was 25 and her mother, Maria Elisabet Peterson, was 21. She married Karl August Karlson on 10 June 1922. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Göteborgs och Bohus, Sweden in 1907 and Göteborg, Göteborgs och Bohus, Sweden in 1917. She died on 23 July 1964, in Lundby, Göteborgs och Bohus, Sweden, at the age of 82.
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- 1900 Census - Alma Maria Victoria Axtelius in Partille, Göteborg och Bohus, Sweden, working as a weaver, single
- Birth Record for Almla Maria Victoria Axtelius, b 16 November 1881 in Prestgärden, Löt, Kalmar, Sweden, chr 26 November 1881
- Death Record (indexed) for Alma Maria Victoria Axtelius, d 23 July 1964 in Lundby, Göteborg och Bohus, Sweden
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World Events (8)
1884 · Fredrika Bremer Association is Founded
Fredrika Bremer Association was founded in 1884 and is Sweden's oldest women's rights organization.
1897
World exposition held in Stockholm. First Swedish car built.
1905
Union of Norway and Sweden dissolved.
Name Meaning
Relatively modern creation, of uncertain origin. It had a temporary vogue following the Battle of Alma ( 1854 ), which is named from the river in the Crimea by which it took place; similarly, Trafalgar had occasionally been used as a girl's name earlier in the 19th century. Nevertheless, the historical event seems only to have increased the popularity of an existing, if rare, name. Alma is also the feminine form of the Latin adjective almus ‘nourishing, kind’ (compare the term alma mater ‘fostering mother’, denoting an educational establishment). The name was borne by Alma Bennett ( 1889–1958 ), American vamp of the silent screen. In Tennessee Williams's play Summer and Smoke ( 1948 ), a bearer of the name explains that it is ‘Spanish for soul’, but this seems to be no more than coincidental.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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