When Ingeborg Christensdatter was born on 5 June 1733, in Røyken, Akershus, Norway, her father, Christen Siversen Grini, was 31 and her mother, Rønnaug Christensdatter, was 41. She married Joen Engebretsen Flater on 24 April 1757, in Røyken, Buskerud, Norway. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She died in March 1788, in Røyken, Buskerud, Norway, at the age of 54, and was buried in Røyken, Buskerud, Norway.
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Law of 1736 legally established Confirmation in the Lutheran Church which led to organized education for all children. These became important records which the Pastor kept.
First school law to begin universal schooling in Norway. They taught the subjects of Christianity, reading, writing, arithmetic. Compulsory schooling from the age of seven and at least until ten to twelve years old.
From an Old Norse personal name from the name of the fertility god Ing + borg ‘fortification’.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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