When Oline Emilia Olesdatter was born in 1859, her father, Ole Jørgen OLSEN, was 45 and her mother, Maria Grønbech MORTENSDTR., was 39. She married Jens Kristian Johannesen on 21 September 1879, in Alstahaug, Nordland, Norway. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Nordland, Norway in 1859 and Poulsbo, Kitsap, Washington, United States for about 20 years. She died on 27 February 1956, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 97.
In the Middle Ages this represented a contracted form of Adeline . In modern use it is either a revival of this or a respelling of Aileen . In Scotland and Ireland it has sometimes been chosen as representing an Anglicized spelling of the Gaelic vocabulary word àlainn (Scottish), álainn (Irish), meaning ‘lovely’.
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