Brief Life History of Johannes
When Johannes Peterson was born on 24 November 1824, in Mossebo, Mölltorp, Skaraborg, Sweden, his father, Peter Olofsson, was 34 and his mother, Sara Lisa Nilsdotter, was 30. He lived in Mölltorp, Skaraborg, Sweden in 1824.
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- Birth Record: Johannes to Petter Olofsson and Sara Lisa Nilsdotter
- Johannes Pettersson, "Sweden, Baptisms, 1611-1920"
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World Events (8)
1832
Göta Canal opened.
1848 · The March Unrest
The March Unrest, or the Marsoroligheterna, was a series of riots in Stockholm in March 1848, due to news of the French Revolution. As a mob gathered and plundered shops on March 19, the militia fired shots and 18 deaths. The army arrived on March 21 for reinforcement and terminated any further rioting.
1873 · The Swedish Krona Becomes National Currency
The Swedish krona replaced the Swedish riksdaler as the national currency in 1873.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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