Karen Nohr

Brief Life History of Karen

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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Family Time Line

Carl Sorensen Nohr
1862–1936
Ane Martine Mortensen
1864–1940
Mette Nohr
1889–
Karen Nohr
1890–1910
Soren Nohr
1891–1969
Ane Nohr
1892–
Morten Nohr
1894–
Ellis Nohr
1895–
Mine Nohr
1897–
Marie Nohr
1899–
Frederikke Nohr
1905–

Sources (3)

  • Karen Nøhr, "Denmark Census, 1901"
  • Karen Nor, "Denmark Church Records, 1484-1941"
  • Karen Nøhr, "Denmark Census, 1906"

Name Meaning

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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