When Karen Knudsdatter was born on 12 October 1792, in Tuse, Holbæk, Denmark, her father, Knud Ibsen, was 56 and her mother, Inger Larsdatter, was 45. She died on 24 November 1792, in her hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Tuse, Tuse, Holbæk, 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.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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