When Catrina B Larsen was born in 1866, in Brevik, Telemark, Norway, her father, Knud Conrad Larsen Odden Holden, was 44 and her mother, Berthe Catrina Tørjersdatter, was 42. She died in 1867, in United States, at the age of 1.
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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.
Earliest passenger lists begin in 1867 for the ports of Oslo and Trondheim. Other ports followed.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Lars, Nels, Niels, Sven, Thor, Knud, Nils, Per, Jorgen, Alf, Bjorn.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Lars, an equivalent of Lawrence . This is also an Americanized form of the cognate Larssen. Compare Larson 1, Larrison , and Lawson 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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