When Ingrid Maria Olsdotter was born on 5 December 1844, in Sillhövda, Blekinge, Sweden, her father, Ola Hansson, was 33 and her mother, Maria Pehrsdotter, was 33. She married Olof Petersson on 27 September 1872. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Edestad, Blekinge, Sweden in 1871 and Rödeby, Blekinge, Sweden in 1890. She died on 20 May 1927, in Karlskrona, Blekinge, Sweden, at the age of 82.
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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.
Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Stockholm.
The Swedish krona replaced the Swedish riksdaler as the national currency in 1873.
From an Old Norse female personal name composed of the name of the fertility god Ing + fríðr ‘fair, beautiful’. It was introduced into the English-speaking world from Scandinavia in the 20th century and became very popular, largely because of the fame of the Swedish film actress Ingrid Bergman ( 1915–82 ).
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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