When Godtfred Christian Henrik Beck was born on 12 January 1826, in Sæby, Dronninglund, Hjørring, Denmark, his father, Friderich Beck, was 23 and his mother, Dorothea Birgithe Cathrine Klein, was 24. He married Nicoline Nielsdatter Kongsbak on 19 November 1852, in Sæby, Hjørring, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Sæby, Hjørring, Denmark for about 61 years. He died on 28 August 1904, in Sæby, Dronninglund, Hjørring, Denmark, at the age of 78, and was buried in Sæby, Dronninglund, Hjørring, Denmark.
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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.
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.
Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy. A two-chamber parliament is established.
English: topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream, from northern Middle English bekke ‘stream’ (Old Norse bekkr).
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in northern France named Bec, for example Bec Hellouin in Eure, named with Old Norman French bec ‘stream’, from the same Old Norse root as in 1 above.
English: from the Middle English personal name Becke (Old English Becca or Beocca), of uncertain origin.
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