When Niels Christian Christiansen was born on 12 December 1871, in Glumsø, Tybjerg, Præstø, Denmark, his father, Mads Christiansen, was 34 and his mother, Anne Hedvig Rasmussen, was 27. He married Johanna Lauritze Nielsen on 10 May 1899, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 17 January 1915, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in West Weber, Weber, Utah, United States.
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Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Niels, Nels, Holger, Bent, Carsten, Lars, Per, Sven, Ejner, Johan, Jorgen.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Christian . In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the Norwegian and Danish variant Kristiansen .
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, or North German patronymic Christensen , a cognate of 1 above. Compare Christianson .
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