When Knud Clausen was born in 1733, in Gjøl, Hvetbo, Hjørring, Denmark, his father, Claus Lorentsen, was 32 and his mother, Karen Knudsdatter, was 26. He died in 1733, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Gjøl, Hvetbo, Hjørring, Denmark.
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Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Holger, Bente, Ingard, Niels, Ansgar, Astrid, Bent, Bjorn, Erik, Evald, Jorgen, Knud.
North German, Danish, and Norwegian: patronymic from the personal name Claus , a shortened form of Nikolaus (see Nicholas ). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the variants Claussen and Klausen . Compare Clauson 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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