When Christine Mathilda Westberg was born on 11 June 1882, in Baldringe, Malmöhus, Sweden, her father, Per Johan Alfred Westberg, was 24 and her mother, Carolina Jönsdotter Eckerholm, was 25.
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Fredrika Bremer Association was founded in 1884 and is Sweden's oldest women's rights organization.
World exposition held in Stockholm. First Swedish car built.
World War I began, Sweden neutral.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Nils, Anders, Erland, Johan.
Scandinavian: ornamental or topographic name from väst or vest ‘west’ + berg ‘mountain, hill’. In some cases the name could be habitational, from a place so named.
North German: topographic name from Middle Low German west ‘west’ + berg ‘mountain, hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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