When Marit Olsdatter Knapper was born in 1726, in Knapper, Nord-Odal, Hedmark, Norway, her father, Ole Findsen Søstua Knapper, was 56 and her mother, Goro Hansdatter Jelsnes, was 35. She had at least 1 son with Tor Bergersen Østmoen.
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Law of 1736 legally established Confirmation in the Lutheran Church which led to organized education for all children. These became important records which the Pastor kept.
First school law to begin universal schooling in Norway. They taught the subjects of Christianity, reading, writing, arithmetic. Compulsory schooling from the age of seven and at least until ten to twelve years old.
It listed all family members living on each farm. Also those living in the cities.
English: topographic name from Middle English knap(p)er(e), an agent derivative of knap(pe) ‘knob, hillock’, for someone who lived by a hilltop or hillock; compare Knapp .
German (also Knäpper): habitational name for someone from either of two places in Westphalia named Knapp.
German (Knäpper): unflattering nickname from an agent derivative of knappen ‘to be stingy’ or, in some places, ‘to grab or snatch’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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