When Ida Sofia Thorsdotter was born on 9 January 1863, in Hjärtum, Lilla Edet, Västra Götaland, Sweden, her father, Thore Svenungsson, was 25 and her mother, Britta Johansdotter, was 23. She married Axel Martin Larsson on 4 December 1880, in Trollhättan, Älvsborg, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Vesterlanda, Göteborg och Bohus, Sweden in 1863 and Trollhättan, Älvsborg, Sweden for about 31 years. She died on 29 May 1940, in Gärdhem, Västra Götaland, Sweden, at the age of 77.
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Originally a Norman name, of Germanic origin, derived from īd ‘work’. This died out during the later Middle Ages. It was revived in the 19th century, influenced by its use in Tennyson's The Princess ( 1847 ) for the central character, who devotes herself to the cause of women's rights and women's education in a thoroughly Victorian way. The name is also associated with Mount Ida in Crete, which was connected in classical times with the worship of Zeus, king of the gods, who was supposed to have been brought up in a cave on the mountainside. In the 1930s it became famous as the name of the film star Ida Lupino ( 1914–1995 ).
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