When Karen Marie Johansdatter was born on 17 October 1845, in Farendløse, Ringsted, Sorø, Denmark, her father, Johan Mortensen, was 40 and her mother, Ellen Jensdatter, was 40. She died on 19 February 1846, in her hometown, at the age of 0.
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equivalent of Katherine . It was first introduced to the English-speaking world by Scandinavian settlers in America; it has been used in Britain only since the 1940s, but had become very popular by the 1960s.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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