When Ole Andersen Kuosmainen was born in 1661, in Trysil, Hedmark, Norway, his father, Anders Olsson Kuosmainen, was 34 and his mother, Marte Paulsdatter Raatikainen, was 23. He married Kersti Henriksdotter Hiimainen about 1678, in Trysil, Hedmark, Norway. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. He died in 1701, in Tørberget, Trysil, Hedmark, Norway, at the age of 40.
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The State Church of Norway passed a law which required ministers to keep a written record of all baptisms, marriages, burials.
1n 1700 Norway changed from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar. The day after 18 Feb in the Julian Calendar became 1 March in the Gregorian calendar.
from an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements anu ‘ancestor’ + leifr ‘heir, descendant’. St Olaf , King of Norway ( 995–1030 ), aided the spread of Christianity in his kingdom. The name was introduced to Britain before the Norman Conquest, but modern use as a given name in the English-speaking world originated in America, where it was taken by recent Scandinavian immigrants.
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