Brief Life History of Laura Petrine Christine
When Laura Petrine Christine Lund was born on 26 February 1843, in Copenhagen, København, Denmark, her father, Lars Peder Lund, was 40 and her mother, Magdalene Kirstine Olsen, was 29. She married John Van Cott on 12 February 1857, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 1 December 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Laura Van Cott, "United States Census, 1870"
- Laura L Van Cott, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
- Laura in entry for Roy Van Cott, "Utah, Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, 1847-1976"
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Children (6)
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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