Brief Life History of Olia
When Olia Olesdatter was born on 26 May 1811, her father, Ole Isaaksen Gjermshuus, was 49 and her mother, Gunne Nilsdatter Snaare, was 42. She lived in Hedmark, Norway in 1811.
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- Olia Olesdatter, "Norway Baptisms, 1634-1927"
- Olia Olesdatter, "Norway Baptisms, 1634-1927"
- Olia, "Norway, Baptisms, 1634-1927"
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World Events (1)
1812 · Record-keeping
A uniform system for keeping church records was introduced by royal ordinance in December 1812. Prior to that there were no directions on how to keep church records. It required that a duplicate register be kept in a separate place.
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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