When Bodil Bengtsdotter was born in 1704, in Igellösa, Torna, Malmöhus, Sweden, her father, Bengt Andersson, was 37 and her mother, Kirstin Nilsson, was 33. She married Christen Olofsson on 15 November 1724, in Igellösa, Torna, Malmöhus, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 12 June 1778, in her hometown, at the age of 74.
From an Old Norse personal name from bót ‘remedy, compensation’ + hildr ‘battle’.
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