When Marte Olsdatter Knapper was born in 1721, in Knapper, Nord-Odal, Hedmark, Norway, her father, Ole Findsen Søstua Knapper, was 51 and her mother, Goro Hansdatter Jelsnes, was 30. She died in 1722, in her hometown, at the age of 1.
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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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