When Elna Månsdotter was born on 7 April 1841, in Felestad, Rönneberg, Malmöhus, Sweden, her father, Måns Andersson, was 46 and her mother, Boel Persdotter, was 38. She married Sven Akesson on 19 October 1860, in Felestad, Rönneberg, Malmöhus, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She died on 17 June 1870, in her hometown, at the age of 29, and was buried in Felestad, Rönneberg, Malmöhus, Sweden.
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In Ireland this has been used as an Anglicized form of Eithne . The name occurs in the apocryphal Book of Tobit, where it is the name of the mother of Sarah and stepmother of Tobias. This is said to be from Hebrew ῾ednah ‘pleasure, delight’, and if so it is connected with the name of the Garden of Eden . The earliest known uses of the given name in England are in the 16th century, when it was probably imported from Ireland, although the spelling Ednah supports the idea that it was taken from the Bible.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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