Brief Life History of Per
When Per Trulsson was born on 10 January 1747, in Sweden, his father, Truls Anderson, was 52 and his mother, Karna Håkansdotter, was 39. He lived in Huaröd, Gärd, Kristianstad, Sweden in 1747. He died on 22 April 1766, at the age of 19.
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- Per, "Sweden Baptisms, 1611-1920"
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Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Lars, Alf, Obert.
Americanized form (and a very rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Trulsson: patronymic from the personal name Truls, a derivative of Old Norse Thorgils, from Thórr, the name of the Scandinavian god of thunder (see Thor ), + gils, a word probably denoting a weapon of some kind.
Americanized form of Norwegian Trulsen, a cognate of 1 above and of Truelsen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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