Brief Life History of Stina Cajsa
When Stina Cajsa Peterson was born on 15 February 1825, in Näsby, Örebro, Sweden, her father, Petter Larsson Holmberg, was 32 and her mother, Maria Olsdotter, was 37. She married Johannes Johansson on 21 June 1862, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Huntsville, Weber, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 20 May 1888, in Downey, Bannock, Idaho, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Cambridge Cemetery, Downey, Bannock, Idaho, United States.
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Sources (14)
- Stirona Felt, "United States Census, 1880"
- Stina Cajsa Felt, "BillionGraves Index"
- Christina Holmberg in entry for Christina Matilda Felt, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1832
Göta Canal opened.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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