When Cajsa Andersdotter was born on 1 January 1817, in Västergötland, Sweden, her father, Anders Andersson, was 30 and her mother, Anna Eriksdotter, was 25. She died on 18 July 1819, at the age of 2.
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Italian (southern, mainly Foggia): probably a nickname for a corpulent person from cassa ‘trunk’, ‘crate’, but it could also be a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such items.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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