When Brita Persdotter was born about 1718, in Julita, Södermanland, Sweden, her father, Pers Johansson, was 21 and her mother, Mrs. Per Johansson, was 22. She married Per Olofsson Birhals on 2 July 1750, in Dalarna, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 10 January 1786, in Husby, Kopparberg, Sweden, at the age of 69.
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Northern War occurred.
In Treaty of Abo, Sweden ceded southeast Finland to Russia.
Borrowing of the Irish name Brighid ( see Bridget ). This name owes its enormous popularity in Scandinavia, especially in Sweden, to St Birgitta ( 1304–73 ), patron saint of Sweden. She was a noblewoman who bore her husband eight children. After his death, she founded an order of nuns, the ‘Bridgettines’ or Order of the Most Holy Saviour. She also went to Rome, where she attempted to reform religious life.
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