When Kari Torstensdatter was born on 17 February 1812, in Tinn, Telemark, Norway, her father, Torstein Torgeirsen, was 40 and her mother, Anne Gunnufsdatter, was 33. She married Thore Halvorsen on 12 December 1836, in Atrå, Bratsberg, Norway. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Tinn, Bratsberg, Norway in 1812. She died on 1 January 1890, in Atrå, Bratsberg, Norway, at the age of 77, and was buried in Atrå, Bratsberg, Norway.
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Constitution declared Norway to be an independent kingdom to avoid being ceded to Sweden from Denmark. Celebrated by Norwegians & Norwegian-Americans on May 17th each year.
Place where the Norwegian Constitution was signed on 17 May.
Fox River Settlement in Illinois begun in 1834. It was the first permanent Norwegian-American immigrant settlement in the Midwest.
Norwegian equivalent of Katherine .
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