When Karen Jensdatter was born in April 1792, in Lyndby, Bramsnæs, Roskilde, Denmark, her father, Jens Nielsen, was 47 and her mother, Anne Magrethe Stephansdatter, was 32. She died in May 1792, in her hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Lyndby, Bramsnæs, Roskilde, Denmark.
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equivalent of Katherine . It was first introduced to the English-speaking world by Scandinavian settlers in America; it has been used in Britain only since the 1940s, but had become very popular by the 1960s.
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