When Anna Torjusdotter Bjelland was born in 1767, in Bjelland, Etne, Hordaland, Norway, her father, Torjus Persson, was 38 and her mother, Brita Sjursdotter, was 34. She died in 1768, in her hometown, at the age of 1.
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Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Carsten, Lars, Ove.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of 24 farms in southwest Norway, named with a word for ‘round hill’ + land ‘(piece of) land, farmstead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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