When Jon Person was born on 11 November 1825, in Kiaby, Skåne, Sweden, his father, Per Hansson, was 32 and his mother, Elna Persdotter, was 25. He married Pernilla Persdotter about 25 September 1850, in Kiaby, Skåne, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Kiaby, Villand, Kristianstad, Sweden in 1825.
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Göta Canal opened.
The March Unrest, or the Marsoroligheterna, was a series of riots in Stockholm in March 1848, due to news of the French Revolution. As a mob gathered and plundered shops on March 19, the militia fired shots and 18 deaths. The army arrived on March 21 for reinforcement and terminated any further rioting.
The Swedish krona replaced the Swedish riksdaler as the national currency in 1873.
Americanized form (and a very rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Persson or Pehrsson (see Pehrson ).
German: patronymic from the personal name Peer , Low German variant of Peter .
English: variant of Parson .
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