Brief Life History of Lena Ariens
When Lena Ariens Fries was born about 1677, in Holland, Netherlands, her father, Arie Fries, was 29 and her mother, Mrs Arie Fries, was 27. She married Pieter Dirksz Fluijt on 24 April 1700, in Holland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 3 sons.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Lena Ariens Fries - Family genealogies: birth-name: Lena Ariesdochter de Vries
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1689
France fought with the Netherlands.
1692
An English and Dutch fleet beat France in the Battle at La Hogue.
1745
England, Austria, Saxony and the Netherlands formed an alliance against Russia.
Name Meaning
German, Dutch, Jewish (from the Netherlands), Danish, and Swedish: ethnic name for someone from Friesland, province in the Netherlands and a region in northwestern Germany, in the Middle Ages part of the larger northwest region Fresia. This form of the surname is rare in the Netherlands but very common in Germany. Compare De Fries and De Vries .
German, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish: from the personal name Friso, which refers to the ethnic name (see 1 above).
South German: occupational name for a builder of dams and dikes. The word was used in this sense in various parts of Germany and Switzerland during the Middle Ages, and is perhaps a transferred use of the ethnic term, dike building being a characteristic occupation of Frieslanders.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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