When Helge Torgeirsdatter was born in October 1728, in Sigdal, Buskerud, Norway, her father, Torgeir Gulliksen Desarud, was 26 and her mother, Ingeborg Olsdatter, was 22. She married Arne Andersen on 23 September 1764, in Holmen, Drammen, Drammen, Buskerud, Norway. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died in 1789, in Øvre Lindelia, Ringerike, Buskerud, Norway, at the age of 61, and was buried in Sigdal, Buskerud, Norway.
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Law of 1736 legally established Confirmation in the Lutheran Church which led to organized education for all children. These became important records which the Pastor kept.
First school law to begin universal schooling in Norway. They taught the subjects of Christianity, reading, writing, arithmetic. Compulsory schooling from the age of seven and at least until ten to twelve years old.
From an early medieval personal name, a derivative of heilagr ‘prosperous’. The popularity of the name greatly increased with the subsequent change in meaning of the vocabulary word to ‘blessed, holy’.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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