When Brita Andersdotter was born on 7 May 1710, in Lugnås, Skaraborg, Sweden, her father, Anders Andersson, was 35 and her mother, Ingeborg Månsson, was 46. She married Nils Larsson on 13 November 1737, in Lugnås, Skaraborg, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 16 March 1777, in her hometown, at the age of 66.
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Northern War occurred.
In Treaty of Abo, Sweden ceded southeast Finland to Russia.
Borrowing of the Irish name Brighid ( see Bridget ). This name owes its enormous popularity in Scandinavia, especially in Sweden, to St Birgitta ( 1304–73 ), patron saint of Sweden. She was a noblewoman who bore her husband eight children. After his death, she founded an order of nuns, the ‘Bridgettines’ or Order of the Most Holy Saviour. She also went to Rome, where she attempted to reform religious life.
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