When Gertrud Nilsdotter was born on 15 February 1694, in Villie, Ljunit, Malmöhus, Sweden, her father, Niels Pedersen, was 31 and her mother, Anna Christina Lehnertsdotter, was 30.
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1663–1735 Male
1663–1716 Female
1686– Female
1692–1754 Male
1694– Female
1696– Male
1698–1784 Male
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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.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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