When Margarthe Dorthea Williamson was born on 7 December 1860, in Lendum, Horns, Hjørring, Denmark, her father, Willum Christian Larsen, was 46 and her mother, Christiane Sophie Christensdatter, was 27. She married John Carl Christian Christensen on 22 January 1880, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons. She immigrated to United States in 1866 and lived in Levan, Juab, Utah, United States in 1880 and Pleasant Grove Election Precinct, Utah, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 18 February 1935, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Pleasant Grove City Cemetery, Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Magasin is a Danish chain of department stores that was founded in 1868 in Copenhagen and still exists today. They can be found in Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, and the UK.
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English (Northern) and Scottish: from the Middle English personal name William + patronymic -son ‘son of William’. This surname is also found in Northern Ireland (Ulster), especially in Antrim.
Americanized form of Norwegian, Danish, and North German Wilhelmsen , Swedish Wilhelmsson, or Dutch and North German Willemsen , all cognates of 1.
History: This surname was brought to North America from northern England and northern Ireland independently by numerous different bearers from the 17th century onward. Timothy Williamson is recorded in Plymouth Colony in 1643.
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