When Carl Christian Falch was born about 1834, in Risvær, Nordland, Norway, his father, Jonas Falch, was 25 and his mother, Karen Catharina Ellingsen, was 34. He died on 7 May 1837, in his hometown, at the age of 4.
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Fox River Settlement in Illinois begun in 1834. It was the first permanent Norwegian-American immigrant settlement in the Midwest.
Welsh or English: unexplained. This surname is no longer found in Britain.
South German: nickname for a blond-haired man, from Middle High German falch ‘yellow’.
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