When Anne Maria Eliasdatter Garstad was born about October 1778, in Bamble, Telemark, Norway, her father, Elias Hansen Høen, was 38 and her mother, Alette Pedersdatter Brekke, was 37. She married Isak Tollefsen on 29 October 1799, in Bamble, Telemark, Norway. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Bamble, Bratsberg, Norway in 1801. She died in 1805, in Bamble, Telemark, Norway, at the age of 27.
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It listed all family members living on each farm. Also those living in the cities.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Lars, Erik, Johan, Knut, Monrad, Nils.
Swedish: habitational name from a place so named.
Norwegian: habitational name from the name of several farms, unclear first element + Old Norse stathir, plural of stathr ‘farmstead, dwelling’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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