Brief Life History of Abel Maria
When Abel Maria Christophersdatter was born on 30 August 1805, in Liknes, Kvinesdal, Vest-Agder, Norway, her father, Christopher Pedersen, was 29 and her mother, Guri Torkelsdatter, was 25. She lived in Lister og Mandal, Norway in 1805.
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- Abel Maria Christophersdatter, "Norway Baptisms, 1634-1927"
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World Events (8)
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
1810 · Ole Bull
Eminent Norwegian violinist and composer. Renown Norwegian violinist and composer who toured multiple times in the US. Family friend with Edvard Grieg.
1843 · Edvard Grieg
Birth year of renown musical composer and pianist. Born in Bergen, Norway. Musical composer and pianist whose music is known worldwide. His use and development of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions brought the music of Norway to develop a national identity,
Name Meaning
Biblical name, borne by the younger son of Adam and Eve, who was murdered for reasons of jealousy by his brother Cain (Genesis 4:1–8). The Hebrew form is Hevel, ostensibly representing the vocabulary word hevel ‘breath, vapour’, and so taken to imply vanity or worthlessness. Abel is considered by the Christian Church to have been a pre-Christian martyr (see Matthew 23:35), and is invoked as a saint in the litany for the dying. Nevertheless, his name has not been much used either before or after its brief vogue among the Puritans.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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