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| | About Family Names in Norway before year 1900 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14) |
 | | If Hakon, Ole's father died and his mother remarried and the new husband's name was Hans, and if they had a son and called him Anders, his name would be Anders Hansen, but Anders' elder brother would still be Ole Hakonsen. |
 | | If later, Ole decides to move to America, he would arrive at a country where people were used to a family or surname, that is, one and the same last name for husband, wife and their children. |
 | | In the end, Ole, son of Hakon raised on the Dulperud farm and with a job for two years as a farmhand at the Evenrud farm, could end up in the USA as Ole Evinrude. |
| www.viking.no /fet/names.html (609 words) |
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