Brief Life History of Christian Nielsen
When Christian Nielsen Lund Sr was born on 13 January 1846, in Seest, Koldinghus, Denmark, his father, Lauritzs “Lars” Nielsen Lund, was 39 and his mother, Frederikke Jensen, was 31. He married Petra Antonia Marie Jensen on 11 October 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Seest, Anst, Ribe, Denmark for about 10 years. He died on 7 May 1921, in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- Christian Nielsen Lund, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Seest, Ribe Parish Birth Record for Christian Nielsen Lund, 1846
- Christin N. Lund, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Anders, Lars, Nils, Thor, Iver, Nels, Obert, Berger, Einer, Knute, Morten.
Scandinavian, German, and English: topographic name for someone who lived by a grove, Old Norse lundr; the word was adopted into northern dialects of Middle English and also into Anglo-Norman French. There are a number of places in England named with this word, as for example Lund in Lancashire, East Yorkshire, and North Yorkshire, Lunt in Merseyside, and Lound in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Suffolk, and the surname may derive from any of these. As a Swedish surname it is probably most often ornamental.
German: habitational name from any of the places called Lund or Lunden in Schleswig-Holstein.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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