Brief Life History of Mette
When Mette Larsdatter was born on 1 July 1811, in Sprove, Damsholte, Mønbo, Præstø, Denmark, her father, Lars Nielsen, was 34 and her mother, Karen Sørensdatter, was 27. She married Carsten Madsen on 25 February 1831, in Damsholte, Mønbo, Præstø, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Damsholte, Mønbo, Præstø, Denmark for about 30 years. She died on 27 December 1879, in Sprove, Damsholte, Møn, Denmark, at the age of 68, and was buried in Damsholte, Møn, Denmark.
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- Mette Larsdatter in household of Carsten Madsen, "Denmark Census, 1870"
- Mette Lars Dr, "Denmark, Marriages, 1635-1916"
- Mette Larsdatter, "Denmark Church Records, 1484-1941"
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1814
Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden.
1818 · Danmarks Nationalbank
Danmarks Nationalbank is the central bank of the Kingdom of Denmark and serves as an independent and credible institution that issues the krone, the Danish currency. The bank undertakes all functions related to the management of the Danish central-government debt.
1829 · Oldest Leather Goods in Denmark
Kuffert Sorensen was established in 1829 by Carl Peter Sorensen as a leather goods company. Today the business has five locations and each are run by a member of the Sorensen family.
Name Meaning
An extremely common given name from the Middle Ages onwards, derived via Old French Marguerite and Latin Margarita from Greek Margarītēs, from margaron ‘pearl’, a word ultimately of Hebrew origin. The name was always understood to mean ‘pearl’ throughout the Middle Ages. The first St Margaret was martyred at Antioch in Pisidia during the persecution instigated by the Emperor Diocletian in the early 4th century. However, there is some doubt about her name, as the same saint is venerated in the Orthodox Church as Marina . There were several other saintly bearers of the name, including St Margaret of Scotland ( d. 1093 ), wife of King Malcolm Canmore and daughter of Edmund Ironside of England. It was also the name of the wife of Henry VI of England, Margaret of Anjou ( 1430–82 ), and of Margaret Tudor ( 1489–1541 ), sister of Henry VIII , who married James IV of Scotland and ruled as regent there after his death. See also Margery , Marjorie .
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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