When Kari Olsdatter Knapper was born in 1723, in Knapper, Nord-Odal, Hedmark, Norway, her father, Ole Findsen Søstua Knapper, was 53 and her mother, Goro Hansdatter Jelsnes, was 32. She married Ola Jensen Komperud on 5 November 1750, in Åsnes, Hedmark, Norway. She died after 1750, in Åsnes, Hedmark, Norway.
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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.
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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