When Anna Maja Jansdotter was born on 11 September 1728, in Hökhufvud, Stockholm, Sweden, her father, Jan Mattsson, was 29 and her mother, Maria Philipsdotter Boive, was 24. She married Mats Nilsson on 18 June 1749, in Hökhufvud, Stockholm, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Lövstaholm, Stockholm, Sweden in 1766. She died on 8 May 1800, in Hökhufvud, Stockholm, Sweden, at the age of 71, and was buried in Hökhufvud, Stockholm, Sweden.
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In Treaty of Abo, Sweden ceded southeast Finland to Russia.
variant of Anne , in common use as a given name in most European languages. Among people with a classical education, it has from time to time been associated with Virgil's Aeneid, where it is borne by the sister of Dido , Queen of Carthage. This Phoenician name may ultimately be of Semitic origin, and thus related to the biblical Anne. However, the connection, if it exists, is indirect rather than direct.
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