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carl johnson
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 Posted - 02/05/2024 : 00:34:05
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I found this biography of Guri when I was translating Vossaboki and found it interesting and wondering if anybody had done any research on this woman. She was unique because of what she did and the fact she was a woman during these times
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Guri Jonsdatter Lid was born in 1831. She was a strange woman. She traveled to America in 1853 and wrote the page for Julia Lie. She was in the ministry for several years, then traveled for about 10 years preaching the word of God and practicing penance. In 1868 she came to Liverpool in England, went to Dover, took over to Calais and walked on through France and Belgium to Coblenz, where she was seen stuck. When she was free there, she wandered on and came to Rome in 1869. After she was imprisoned and free there, she was on her way to a seaport to travel by ship to Egypt and wanted to go to Jerusalem. In Venice, the police took her in 1870 and sent her to Vienna, where she was admitted to a mental hospital. In January 1871 she was sent to Voss. But in the fall In 1871 she came to Jutland and in 1872 to Vaasa in Finland. She was then traveling, she said, to Russia and on to Turkey. From Vaasa it was written that she was a woman who had walked on all her journeys on land and carried a backpack on her back. Her behavior testifies to daning. The exterior was sleek and appealing and the dress was polite for the way she traveled. Wanting to obey the Savior's words, she said, "Go forth in value and teach all people." She always walked, because the Savior did and, she said. When asked what she lived on, she replied that God cared that people were hospitable to her. After a meeting she held on her travels, she accepted what people gave her. She did not want to collect money, because the Savior had forbidden it. Guri or Julia must be dead now, but where or when have we not seen anything about.
A stone coffin has been found in a field on Lid, which is said to be from the time of the migration. There were two clay vessels, two spears, an ax and a sock. A stone ax has been found in another place. All things are at Bergens Museum. In a handwritten description of Voss in the Geographical Survey, it is said that a grave find was made at Lid in Raundalen from the older Iron Age, and it indicates that there have been blunt people far back in pagan times. |
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ToreL
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Posted - 02/05/2024 : 10:32:43
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| There is a 7-8 page piece about her in the 1973 yearbook of Gamalt frå Voss. The last life-sign from her was a letter sent from Austria to her brother, where she reported about her visit to Jerusalem and the travel back through Italy, where she was again detained but then allowed to proceed. |
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carl johnson
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Posted - 02/05/2024 : 15:05:55
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Originally posted by ToreL
There is a 7-8 page piece about her in the 1973 yearbook of Gamalt frå Voss. The last life-sign from her was a letter sent from Austria to her brother, where she reported about her visit to Jerusalem and the travel back through Italy, where she was again detained but then allowed to proceed.
Thank you much for sourcing another biography.
I will take a look! |
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carl johnson
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Posted - 02/05/2024 : 16:28:09
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Originally posted by ToreL
There is a 7-8 page piece about her in the 1973 yearbook of Gamalt frå Voss. The last life-sign from her was a letter sent from Austria to her brother, where she reported about her visit to Jerusalem and the travel back through Italy, where she was again detained but then allowed to proceed.
I tried finding her in the link that you sent but got sidetracked by a Vossling entry in the 1920s about Guri and her mother
Inger Arnesdatter Ny-Grytten was married two times — first with Jon Arneson Skiple, the second with Jon Lie. In her first marriage they had the children: Guri (Julia), Arne, Ole, Ingeborg as well as a daughter married to Bryngel Kvale, whose son Johan lives at Kvale (Raundalen). Together with her aunt (mother's sister), Sigrid and family,
Guri came to America, where she worked in the household of an American family in Madison, WI, after having spent some time with relatives at Koshkonong. Evidently she became very religious and began to preach and perform acts of mercy. After having traveled through several states, she went to England in 1868 and from there to France. She intended to go to the Holy Land. After having wandered all around France, Germany, Italy and having stopped in all the biggest cities, she arrived in Vienna, Austria from where she had to go home again to Norway.
Subsequently, she tried to reach the Holy Land by going through Finland and Russia. It is unknown if she ever made it. She had an almost unnatural talent for learning languages; she learned the language in each country she traveled through. She used the name Julia Lie.*) - Arne married and settled at Kolve where he spent his whole life. He had eight children: Jon, Marta, Knut, Anna, Inger, Cecelia, Ivar and Lars. Six of these came to America, Where Anna, Inger, Cecelia and Ivar lived in Chicago, IL.
Martha is married to Ivar Selheim and lives in Voss.
They rest are dead. —
Ule married Gur Askeldsdatter Hjembare and bought first a farm at Reime but in 1886 bought a farm at Bryn from Lars Kindem and lived there until his death in 1923. Ole worked a lot in East Norway with horse dealing and became a wealthy man. His son Johan lives at Rjukan and for several years has been city attorney in Tinn, Telemark. Askild is a merchant at Voss.
Another son has the Bryn farm. Ingeborg married Anfin Sygnabare and lived on his family farm.
Their daughter is married to Hans A. Bjorke, who has the farm at Synabære.
In her second marriage Inger Ny-Grytten had a daughter, Arguna, who married Asle B. Reime and they took over her father's farm at Lie. Their son, Bryngel A. Lie, runs the farm now.
Inger died at Lie about 1898 |
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