Brief Life History of Otto Viktor
When Otto Viktor Johnsson was born on 15 August 1883, in Loshult, Osby, Skåne, Sweden, his father, John Nilsson, was 32 and his mother, Ingrid Nilsdotter, was 29. He had at least 1 son and 5 daughters with Hilda Eliasson. He died on 7 September 1944, in Älmhult, Jönköping, Sweden, at the age of 61.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Otto Viktor Johnsson - Church record: Birth record or certificate: birth: 15 August 1883; Loshult, Kristianstad, Sweden
- Otto Vicktor Johnsson, "Sweden, Household Examination Books, 1880-1930"
- Otto Viktor Johnsson, "Sweden, Household Examination Books, 1880-1930"
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1884 · Fredrika Bremer Association is Founded
Fredrika Bremer Association was founded in 1884 and is Sweden's oldest women's rights organization.
1897
World exposition held in Stockholm. First Swedish car built.
1901
First Nobel Prize awarded.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name, deriving in most cases from the place so called in Annandale, in Dumfriesshire. This is derived from the genitive case of the personal name John + + Middle English ton ‘town, village, settlement’ (Old English tūn). There are other places in Scotland so called, including the city of Perth, which used to be known as Saint John's Toun, and some of these may also be sources of the surname.
English: habitational name from Johnson Hall (Staffordshire), recorded as Johannestonc. 1233 and Joneston in 1314. The placename means ‘John's settlement’, from the genitive case of the Middle English personal name Johan, Jon (see John ) + Middle English ton ‘town, village, settlement’.
History: As far as can be ascertained, most Scottish bearers of this surname are descendants of John, probably a Norman baron from England, who held lands at Johnstone in Annandale from the Bruce family in the late 12th century. His son Gilbert was the first to take the surname Johnstone and their descendants later held the earldom of Annandale.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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