Alfhild Ovidia Andersen Aakerman

Brief Life History of Alfhild Ovidia Andersen

When Alfhild Ovidia Andersen Aakerman was born on 29 July 1896, in Oslo, Norway, her father, Andreas Wilhelm Andersen Aakerman, was 21 and her mother, Valborg Ovidia Olsen, was 18. She married Charles Bjorn Eugene Knutsen on 31 May 1919, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States in 1930 and Justice Precinct 1, Dallas, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 22 February 1988, in Newport Beach, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles Bjorn Eugene Knutsen
1895–1970
Alfhild Ovidia Andersen Aakerman
1896–1988
Marriage: 31 May 1919
Charles Eugene Knutsen
1921–1992
Robert Wayne Knutsen
1925–
Joyce Marilyn Knutsen
1929–2002

Sources (19)

  • Alphild Knutsen, "United States, Census, 1940"
  • Alphild Anderson, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1953"
  • Andersen, "California, Death Index, 1940-1997"

World Events (8)

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1900 · 1900 Norwegian Census

Enumerates all persons in Norway on 3 Dec 1900. Also includes data of individuals on Norwegian ships. Includes names, birthdates & birthplaces, marital status, position in family, occupation, nationality etc.

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

Name Meaning

Dutch: occupational name from akkerman ‘farmer, plowman’ (from akker ‘field’ + man ‘man’). Compare Akkerman , Aukerman , and Ockerman .

English: from Middle English acreman ‘cultivator of the soil, plowman’ (Old English æcerman, from æcer ‘field, acre’ + man ‘man’). Typically, an acreman was a bond tenant of a manor holding half a virgate of arable land, for which he paid by serving as a plowman. The term was also used generically to denote a plowman or husbandman.

Americanized form of German Ackermann 1.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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