When Per Jacobsson was born on 12 November 1745, in Barsebäck, Harjager, Malmöhus, Sweden, his father, Jacob Jonsson, was 36 and his mother, Hanna Truetsdr, was 47. He married Malena Mårtensdotter on 16 October 1774, in Barsebäck, Harjager, Malmöhus, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 5 June 1822, in Barsebäck, Harjager, Malmöhus, Sweden, at the age of 76.
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Sweden declared independence. Constitutional monarchy established. Russia took Aland Island group from Sweden.
Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden.
English, Swedish, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Jacob denoting ‘Jacob's son’. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, including Scandinavian (see 2 below) and, in some cases, Croatian Jakobović (which is from the personal name Jakob ).
Americanized form of Swedish Jacobsson or Jakobsson and Danish, Norwegian, North German, or Dutch Jacobsen or Jakobsen , all cognates of 1 above.
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