When Gertrud Eriksdatter was born in 1729, in Kvinnherad, Hordaland, Norway, her father, Erik Larsson Hjortland, was 30 and her mother, Guro Gabrielsdatter Hauge Graa-Grey, was 27. She married Steffen Olson Eikeland on 22 November 1761, in Kvinnherad, Hordaland, Norway. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Nettland, Kvinnherad, Hordaland, Norway in 1801. She died in 1810, in Kvinnherad, Hordaland, Norway, at the age of 81.
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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.
It listed all family members living on each farm. Also those living in the cities.
from gēr, gār ‘spear’ + þrūþ ‘strength’; the name of two famous 13th-century nuns of the Cistercian Abbey of Helfta near Eisleben, whose spiritual writings had a great influence.
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