When Axel Frederik Gad was born on 5 July 1865, in Alsted, Sorø, Denmark, his father, Sophus Christian Gad, was 37 and his mother, Hansine Christiane Marie Zøylner, was 34. He married Laura Marie Bøttern in 1895. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Bogense, Skovby, Odense, Denmark in 1916 and Bogense, Odense, Denmark for about 9 years. He died on 14 August 1939, in Tibirke, Holbo, Frederiksborg, Denmark, at the age of 74.
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World War I. Denmark remains neutral throughout the war.
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Danish: nickname meaning ‘sting, point’. Alternatively, from the Biblical personal name Gad (see 5 below).
Polish: nickname from gad ‘reptile’, metaphorically also ‘mean individual’. Alternatively, a derivative of gadać ‘to talk, to chatter’.
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