Brief Life History of Kirsten Hansdatter
When Kirsten Hansdatter Mork was born in 1550, in Hvetbo, Hjørring, Denmark, her father, Hans Lauersen Mørk, was 35 and her mother, Bodil Laursdatter, was 51. She married Jens Pedersen about 1575. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died about 1625, in Øster Brønderslev, Børglum, Denmark, at the age of 76.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Kirsten Hansdatter Morch - Published information: death: 1625; Øster Brønderslev, Hjørring, Denmark
- Danish Priests Index
- Danish Priests Index
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1563
Seven Year War begins. Fought between Sweden and Denmark.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Lars, Bent, Erik, Gudrun, Hjalmer, Jarl, Jorgen, Nils, Viggo.
Danish (Mørk) and Swedish (Mörk): nickname for someone with dark hair or a swarthy complexion, from Danish mørk, Swedish mörk ‘dark’ (Old Norse myrkr, whence also the English word murk(y)).
Norwegian: habitational name from any of about 20 farmsteads so named, from Old Norse mǫrk ‘outlying pasture, wood’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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