When Franklin Jacobsen was born on 1 December 1856, in Øster Hurup, Als, Hindsted, Ålborg, Denmark, his father, Jacob Christensen Madsen, was 50 and his mother, Dorthea Christine Jensen, was 39. He died in June 1857, at the age of 0.
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Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Lars, Jorgen, Nils, Anders, Gudrun, Iver, Knud, Alf, Bjorn, Borge, Fredrik.
Danish, Norwegian, North German, and Dutch: patronymic from the personal name Jacob . Compare Jacobson and Jakobsen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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