When Dortea Andrea Knutsdatter Meskestad was born on 30 December 1825, in Meskestad, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway, her father, Knut Haldorsøn Meskestad, was 38 and her mother, Magrete Kirstine Baltzarsdatter, was 36. She lived in Buskerud, Norway in 1825. She died in 1843, at the age of 18, and was buried in Sandsvær, Buskerud, Norway.
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Birth year of Henrik Ibsen. Norwegian playwright and theatre director and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His most-known works were Peer Gynt and A Doll's House.
Birth year of Colonel Heg Hans Christian Heg emigrated in 1840 with his parents to Muskego, Wisconsin. Norwegian American Civil War hero, abolitionist, journalist, anti-slavery activist, politician and soldier. He was best known for leading the Scandinavian 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment on the Union side in the American Civil War.
"Birth year of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote the lyrics to the Norwegian national anthem ""Ja, vi elsker."""
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Gonzalo, Pedro, Roberto, Ana, Armando, Enrique, Idalia, Juan, Luis, Marcelo, Reynaldo.
Portuguese and Galician: topographic name from the preposition d(e) ‘from’ + horta ‘garden’ (from Latin hortus), or a habitational name for someone from any of numerous places called with this word in Portugal and Galicia (Spain).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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