When Margrethe Madsdatter Due was born on 31 May 1733, in Povlsker, Bornholm, Denmark, her father, Mads Jensen Due, was 30 and her mother, Karen Marcusdatter Munch, was 11730. She married Anders Jørgensen on 8 November 1755, in Povlsker, Bornholm, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 28 January 1815, in her hometown, at the age of 81, and was buried in Povlsker, Sønder, Bornholm, Denmark.
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Meyercrones Stiftelse was founded by the widow of Henning de Meyercrone after he had served as Danish envoy in France. Christiane Meyercrone, Henning's widow, managed the property until her death in 1738. Her niece became the new manager of the foundation and arranged for its charter to be written in 1830. The original, small building was replaced by a larger building in 1933.
The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters is a non-governmental science Academy founded in 1742 for the purpose of advancements of science in Denmark.
The Old City Hall was built in 1762 and served as the city hall until 1912. the Hall was modelled after the City Hall that was destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire in 1795. Today the building is used only for ceremonial and representative purposes.
North German (Düe): from the ancient Germanic personal name Dudo, which is of uncertain derivation. In some cases it is said to be a pet form of the compound name Liudolf (composed of Old Saxon liud ‘people, tribe’ + wolf ‘wolf’); in other cases it may be a derivative of ancient Germanic theud ‘people, race’.
Danish: from due ‘pigeon, dove’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a dove keeper or as a nickname.
French: variant of Duhe and, in North America, an altered form of this. Compare Duet 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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