When Karen Christine Bohn was born on 29 December 1832, in Vester Marie, Bornholm, Denmark, her father, Peder Hansen Bohn, was 27 and her mother, Kirstine Andersdatter Funch, was 42. She married Christian Jensen on 3 February 1857, in Vestermarie, Bornholm, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Vester Marie, Vestermarie, Bornholm, Denmark for about 26 years and Vester Marie, Vestermarie, Vester, Bornholm, Denmark in 1870. She died on 18 April 1916, in Nylarsker, Bornholm, Denmark, at the age of 83, and was buried in Nylarsker, Vester, Bornholm, Denmark.
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German: from a short form of the personal name Urban or Alban , altered by folk etymology as if from the German word Bohn ‘bean’.
German: metonymic occupational name for a grower of beans, from Middle High German, Middle Low German bōne ‘bean’. Beans were a staple food in the Middle Ages, especially the broad bean, Vicia faba. The green bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, was not introduced from South America until the late 16th century.
English variant of Boon .
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