When Kari Ketilsdatter was born about 1717, in Lunde, Nome, Telemark, Norway, her father, Ketil Vetlesen Ova, was 25 and her mother, Ingeborg Gunleiksdatter, was 25. She married Sveinung Eilevsen in 1740. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter.
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Law of 1736 legally established Confirmation in the Lutheran Church which led to organized education for all children. These became important records which the Pastor kept.
First school law to begin universal schooling in Norway. They taught the subjects of Christianity, reading, writing, arithmetic. Compulsory schooling from the age of seven and at least until ten to twelve years old.
It listed all family members living on each farm. Also those living in the cities.
Norwegian equivalent of Katherine .
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