When Dorothea Larsdotter was born on 28 May 1791, in Tåssjö, Norra Åsbo, Kristianstad, Sweden, her father, Lars Andersson, was 31 and her mother, Ingar Olasdotter, was 31. She married Tufve Nilsson on 16 September 1809, in Tåssjö, Norra Åsbo, Kristianstad, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters.
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Sweden declared independence. Constitutional monarchy established. Russia took Aland Island group from Sweden.
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form of a post-classical Greek name, from dōron ‘gift’ + theos ‘god’ (the same elements as in Theodora , but in reverse order). The masculine form Dorotheus was borne by several early Christian saints, the feminine by only two minor ones, but only the girl's name has survived. In modern use in the English-speaking world it represents either a 19th-century Latinization of Dorothy or a learned reborrowing.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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