When Christian Carlsen was born on 20 November 1852, in Store Heddinge, Præstø, Denmark, his father, Hans Carlsen, was 32 and his mother, Maren Pedersdatter, was 30. He died on 14 September 1866, at the age of 13.
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1820–1866 Male
1822–1904 Female
1852–1866 Male
1855–1946 Female
1857–1873 Male
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Niels, Lars, Lief, Alf, Berger, Bernt, Bjorn, Carsten, Erik, Folmer, Holger, Iver. German Kurt, Bernhard, Friederike, Gerhard, Gerhardt, Hans, Helmut, Otto.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Carl (see also Charles ). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the variant Karlsen . Compare Carlson and Charlson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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