Brief Life History of Bengt
When Bengt Trulsson was born on 5 December 1711, in Öved, Färs, Malmöhus, Sweden, his father, Truls Pehrsson, was 28 and his mother, Hanna Håkansdotter, was 41. He married Metta Hansdotter on 4 March 1737, in Öved, Färs, Malmöhus, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 29 May 1784, in Brandstad, Färs, Malmöhus, Sweden, at the age of 72, and was buried in Brandstad, Färs, Malmöhus, Sweden.
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- Bengt Trulsson, 'Geni World Family Tree' on MyHeritage
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1720
Northern War occurred.
1743
In Treaty of Abo, Sweden ceded southeast Finland to Russia.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Lars, Alf, Obert.
Americanized form (and a very rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Trulsson: patronymic from the personal name Truls, a derivative of Old Norse Thorgils, from Thórr, the name of the Scandinavian god of thunder (see Thor ), + gils, a word probably denoting a weapon of some kind.
Americanized form of Norwegian Trulsen, a cognate of 1 above and of Truelsen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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