When Frantiska Semm was born on 27 December 1847, in Kolešovice, Podbořany, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, her father, Lorenz Sem, was 29 and her mother, Dorota Dobner, was 29.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Arlis, Erik.
German: metonymic occupational name for a beekeeper, from Middle High German seim ‘honey’.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of ten or more farms so named, notably on the west coast of Norway, named with Old Norse Sæheimr, a compound of sær ‘sea’ + heimr ‘home, farmstead’.
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