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ABRAHAMSON Family History

This long-established surname is of early medieval English origin, although also widely recorded in Sweden. It is a patronymic form of the Hebrew male given name "Avraham", and translates as "the father of the nation". This name was borne by the first of the Jewish patriarchs. However Abraham in its European origins is not Jewish, and there is an entry in the 1086 Domesday Book as being the name of a priest in the established chrurch. It is almost certain that the name owes its origination to the returning Crusaders from the Holy Land, who named their later off-spring with biblical names in honour of their fathers visit.