When Gunhild Halvorsdatter Borgen Haugland was born in 1668, in Borgja, Telemark, Norway, her father, Halvor Steinulvsen Borgja, was 52 and her mother, Rønnaug Eivindsdatter Sønstebø, was 41. She married Halvor Knutsson Norheim Haugland about 1690, in Norway. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 5 June 1740, in Bø, Hjartdal, Telemark, Norway, at the age of 72, and was buried in Bø, Hjartdal, Telemark, Norway.
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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.
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.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Bjorn, Jan Erik.
Danish and Norwegian: variant of Borg , the definite form singular of borg ‘fortification, stronghold’.
Norwegian: in some cases, a compound of two elements, borg ‘fortification, stronghold’ and Old Norse vin ‘meadow’, e.g. the name written as Byrghini in 1331, in the province of Akershus.
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