Brief Life History of Barbara
When Barbara Pedersdatter was born on 15 January 1713, in Østermarie, Øster, Bornholm, Denmark, her father, Peder Rasmussen, was 30 and her mother, Inger Jeremiasdatter, was 24. She had at least 1 daughter with Jens Jensen soldier. She died on 10 February 1771, in her hometown, at the age of 58, and was buried in Østermarie, Øster, Bornholm, Denmark.
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- Barbara Pedersen, "Denmark, Baptisms, 1618-1923"
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1729
Greenland becomes Danish province.
1730 · Danish Asia Company
The Danish Asiatic Company was a trading company established to revive the dwindling Danish trade with the East Indies and China. It was taken over by the Danish government in 1772 and continued to run until around 1843.
1744 · Hirschholm Palace
Hirschholm Palace was a royal palace located in present-day Horsholm municipality just north of Copenhagen. It was one of the finest buildings of its time and became known as the Versailles of the North. It developed a bad reputation in connection with its role in the affair between Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Mathilda in the 1770s. After that it fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1809.
Name Meaning
From Latin, meaning ‘foreign woman’ (a feminine form of barbarus ‘foreign’, from Greek, referring originally to the unintelligible chatter of foreigners, which sounded to the Greek ear like no more than bar-bar). St Barbara has always been one of the most popular saints in the calendar, although there is some doubt whether she ever actually existed. According to legend, she was imprisoned in a tower and later murdered by her father, who was then struck down by a bolt of lightning. Accordingly, she is the patron of architects, stonemasons, and fortifications, and of firework makers, artillerymen, and gunpowder magazines.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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