Brief Life History of Anna
When Anna Olsdatter Vangen was born on 20 January 1881, in Sand, Nord-Odal, Hedmark, Norway, her father, Ole Pedersen Nygard Illgo, was 35 and her mother, Elisabeth Amundsdatter Brynjulsrud, was 31. She married Theodor Thommesen Østby about 1900, in Sør-Odal, Hedmark, Norway. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She died in 1968, in Lystad, Hedmark, Norway, at the age of 87.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Anna Olsdatter Kroksrudvangen - birth-name: Anna Olsdatter
- Legacy NFS Source: Anna Olsdatter Kroksrudvangen - death: 1968; Lystad, Hedemarkens Amt, Norway
- Anna Olsdtr, "Norway Church Books, 1815-1930"
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1882 · Sigrid Undset
Birth year of Sigrid Undset. Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Her best-known work is Kristin Lavransdatter.
1893 · Fridtjof Nansen
Birth year of Fridtjof Nansen. Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
1904 · Åsta Holth
Birth year of Åsta Holth. Well-known Norwegian author who was born at Svullrya in Hedmark county. She was of Forest Finnish descent. Many of her written works were about the residents of Finnskogen. Norwegian novelist, poet and short story writer.
Name Meaning
Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads named with the definite singular of vang, from Old Norse vangr ‘field’, ‘meadow’. Compare Wangen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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