Brief Life History of Gisken Maria
When Gisken Maria Mortensdatter was born in 1814, in Tjøtta, Alstahaug, Nordland, Norway, her father, Morten Jacobsen FALCH, was 40 and her mother, Christence Pedersdatter, was 38. She married Iver Manasses Sivertsen on 2 January 1845, in Tjøtta kirke, Alstahaug, Nordland, Norway. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died in 1884, in her hometown, at the age of 70.
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- Gisken Maria, "Norway Baptisms, 1634-1927"
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1814 · Syttende Mai (17th May)
Constitution declared Norway to be an independent kingdom to avoid being ceded to Sweden from Denmark. Celebrated by Norwegians & Norwegian-Americans on May 17th each year.
1814 · Eidsvoll, Norway
Place where the Norwegian Constitution was signed on 17 May.
1834 · Fox River Settlement
Fox River Settlement in Illinois begun in 1834. It was the first permanent Norwegian-American immigrant settlement in the Midwest.
Name Meaning
Flemish, Scottish: relationship name from the Middle Dutch personal name Friesekin, a pet form of Continental Germanic names beginning in Fris- (‘Frisian’). The first known bearer of the personal name in Scotland was Freskyn of Moray, said by Black to have acquired lands in Moray (Murray) from David I, after he suppressed an insurrection there in 1130. As a surname Friskin became Firskin by metathesis and subsequently lost the /r/ before the following /s/, hence the modern forms Fisken and Fiskin.
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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