When Karen Nohr was born on 17 August 1890, in Sebber, Slet, Ålborg, Denmark, her father, Carl Sorensen Nohr, was 28 and her mother, Ane Martine Mortensen, was 26. She died on 20 July 1910, in Sebber, Slet, Ålborg, Denmark, at the age of 19, and was buried in Sebber, Slet, Ålborg, Denmark.
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Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead named Nor, from Old Norse nór ‘narrows’, denoting either a narrow passage in a fjord or lake, or a short stream leading from a lake into a river.
German: probably a habitational name from Nohra in Thuringia, originally named with elements meaning ‘marshy stream’; or, in Holstein, a topographic name from Nohr ‘stagnant water, lake’.
German (Nöhr): from a shortened form of medieval personal name Apollinaris (a derivative of Greek Apollōn). This name was borne by a Christian martyr whose cult was centered in Remagen (Rhineland), where it is found in old forms such as Pollenoris, Bolinoris.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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