Norway and Norwegian Ancestry

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Comment by Staci Golladay on July 10, 2009 at 5:31pm

Torill, you are wonderful! One more quick question..I found the parish records for Engbret, but I don't know what columns are what in the register.....

http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_kildeid=8548&idx_id=8548&uid=ny&idx_side=-1

that's the first page in the 1817 register...I don't mind reviewing all the data but I don't can read the column headings.

Can you tell me what the columns are for? Thanks again so much....

Comment by Gloria Kay Vandiver Inman, M.A., on July 10, 2009 at 5:25pm

John Sander Myhre was b. 30 May 1900 Kongsgaden or Osteraag, Stavanger, Norway, and baptised 22 Jul 1900 St. Petri Kirke, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway, the son of Johan Gustav Myhre and Sandra Bernoldine Gundeson.

He arrived in New York on 21 Aug 1923, and md 5 Apr 1930 in Cook Co, IL to Agnes Weidlich. They had one son, John Edmund Myhre b. 1931, d. 2000 in Spokane WA.
Apparently, Agnes died not long after that, and her husband, Jobn Sanders Myhre, has not been heard of since. I have hit a brick wall trying to find him and hopefully, some descendants.
can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance
Gloria Kay Vandiver Inman

Comment by Torill Johnsen on July 10, 2009 at 2:15pm

Ellef is born in Aal his fathers først name is Engebret. The churchbooks are online and free so you might find the baptism of Engebret there.

Here is a link to the bygdsbook for Aal: http://www.aal-bygdebok.no/
Maybe you will find him there.I did not find Slaatten there, but tha might be the name of the cotters place and then belonging to a farm we don't know of yet.

The online churchbooks are here: http://www.digitalarkivet.no/cgi-win/WebFront.exe?slag=vis&tekst=meldingar&spraak=e

Choose Read on the first page and when it asks for FYLKE insert BUSKERUD. Then look for aal (remember it is Ål in Norwegian, the Norwegian first letter a with the o above) it is in the very end of the list

Janinda is NOT from Bergen town as such. I assume this is what we now call Granvin. You will find churchbooks under county HORDALAND. Then you have to look for Ulvin/Granvin

Comment by Staci Golladay on July 10, 2009 at 2:01pm

Torill, Thanks! I was close but thank you so much for your clarification...so now I'm confused. regarding the surname convention in Norway, how can I locate info on Ellef and Janida (obviously I will know now what town to look for Janida in)? Any thoughts? The majority of this family ended up in Minnesota. Thanks again for your help!

Comment by Torill Johnsen on July 10, 2009 at 1:19pm

To Staci:

The 1865 census for Aal tellsyou:
The family of Ellef Engebretsen lived at the farm Slaatten. Ellef is aa cotter but does not have any land, he is married to Janinda Thoresdatter. The 9th column show their age and the next their sex (M= male, k= female). 11th column is information about where they were born. All of the except Janinda were born in the same area where they are now living whilst the mother was born in Graven outside the town Bergen.

They have 8 children - 6 sons 2 daughters. The three first boys are working earning and being paien day by day. The next three are supported by the municipal aid to poor people.

Does this help you?

Comment by Brittney McOmber on July 10, 2009 at 9:51am

Karl Johan is somehow related to me. My mom has the info... but I need to get it and record it. I have so much research to do on our norwegian line.

Comment by Torill Johnsen on July 10, 2009 at 3:09am

To Terri:

The middelname. Are you sure it is Linden, Limon? Could the L be an S? Simon is not out of question

Comment by Torill Johnsen on July 10, 2009 at 3:07am

To Terri:

Grenadias is not a Norwegian name. The two last letters ar the Norwegian a with the o on the top and an s. as means hill.

Have you seen other spellings of Grenadi?

Comment by Staci Golladay on July 9, 2009 at 10:01pm

Torill,

The link to the 1965 census is at http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&sidenr=3&filnamn=f60619&gardpostnr=309&personpostnr=1746

I also have a record of the matriarch immigrating to the US..there is also a 1801 census and I've love to find someone there but I'm not familar with the databases

Comment by Terri Sprague on July 9, 2009 at 9:37pm

I have two questions that I really hope someone here can help me with.

Can anyone tell me where someone with Norwegian parents, born in the US in about 1875, came by the middle name of "Grenadias?"

He, also, had a son with two middle names - "Linden Limon." None of my family can figure out where these names came from.

Can anyone here help?

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