Brief Life History of Olia
When Olia Hansdatter was born on 1 January 1787, in Hærland, Eidsberg, Østfold, Norway, her father, Hans Guldbrandsen, was 31 and her mother, Pernille Amundsdatter, was 30.
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Family Time Line
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- Olia Hansdatter, "Norway Baptisms, 1634-1927"
Parents and Siblings
Siblings (8)
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World Events (8)
1801 · 1801 Norwegian Census
It listed all family members living on each farm. Also those living in the cities.
1810 · Vaccinations
Royal order issued by the King of Norway and Denmark in 1810 required everyone to have a certificate of smallpox vaccination. This was also recorded in the Church records. 33
1825 · Sloopers
First organized group of emigrants to leave Norway. First emigration to America began with the Sloopers who left in an undersized sloop “Restauration” sailed from Stavanger, Norway on July 4th, 1825.
Name Meaning
name of Scandinavian origin, originally derived from the Old Norse adjective heilagr ‘prosperous, successful’. It was imported by the Scandinavian settlers who founded the first Russian state in the 9th century. St Olga of Kiev ( d. 969 ) was a Varangian noblewoman who was baptized at Byzantium in about 957 and set about converting her people. The name was introduced to the English-speaking world in the late 19th century, but retains a distinctively Russian flavour.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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