Brief Life History of Christian
Christian Halling was born about 1817, in Lerbjerg, Dronningborg, Denmark. He had at least 1 daughter with Christine Christensdatter.
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- Christen Hansen in entry for Henriette Christiansen, "Denmark Church Records, 1484-1941"
- Christian Halling in entry for Henriette, "Denmark Baptisms, 1618-1923"
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World Events (3)
1818 · Danmarks Nationalbank
Danmarks Nationalbank is the central bank of the Kingdom of Denmark and serves as an independent and credible institution that issues the krone, the Danish currency. The bank undertakes all functions related to the management of the Danish central-government debt.
1829 · Oldest Leather Goods in Denmark
Kuffert Sorensen was established in 1829 by Carl Peter Sorensen as a leather goods company. Today the business has five locations and each are run by a member of the Sorensen family.
1847 · Casino Theatre (Copenhagen)
The Casino Theatre was built as an entertainment center by Georg Carstensen but was converted into a theatre in 1848. After many years of never gaining popularity, it was closed in 1937 and demolished in 1960.
Name Meaning
English (Gloucestershire): habitational name from Hawling in Gloucestershire or possibly from Halling in Kent. Halling was named in Old English as ‘family or followers of a man called Heall’; Hawling may have the same etymology or it may have meant ‘people from Hallow’ (a place in Worcestershire named in Old English with halh + haga ‘enclosure’), or ‘people at the nook of land’, Old English halh (see Hale 1).
German and Dutch: variant of Helling .
Swedish: cognate of Hallin , formed with the suffix -ing ‘belonging to’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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