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oldtime54
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 Posted - 01/01/2017 : 21:21:30
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| Sorry wasn't notified again. Doing this reply, I get the option to check here to unsubscribe from this topic so I figure I've subscribed to this topic?? Never will get this BUT I am researching this death now. |
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ToreL
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Norway
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Posted - 19/08/2019 : 15:31:47
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Hi, I just found this quote in an old thread. Do you know if any parish records are preserved from this church, and if so if they are accessible online in any way?
Tore
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Originally posted by jkmarler
There was one Norwegian Lutheran congregation / church in Sangamon county. It was called "Springfield Menighet" It was formed about 1876 and was still in operation in 1890 when it had 70 members. The first pastor was H.C. Wynneken until 1890 and the next was J. Nordby.
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
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Posted - 19/08/2019 : 17:25:55
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| If there are any they would likely be with the church if still in operation today or possibly with the ELCA pastoral acts databases at Ancestry. |
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
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Posted - 19/08/2019 : 23:49:28
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I did not find a church for either Springfield or Sagamon County in the Ancestry data base
U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Church Records, 1781-1969 |
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oldtime54
Junior member
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Posted - 20/08/2019 : 16:42:36
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| Thank you for looking. The man is still a mystery. |
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 20/08/2019 : 17:39:09
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I did find this record in Ancestry. I did not have the heart to go through the previous 7 pages to see if it had already been posted.
John Mikelson
in the Illinois, Compiled Marriages, 1851-1900
Name: John Mikelson
Gender: Male
Spouse Name: Sarah Jane Lauyer
Marriage Date: 16 Sep 1865
Marriage County: Sangamon
Comments: This record can be found at the County Court Records located at Springfield, IL. |
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oldtime54
Junior member
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Posted - 22/08/2019 : 05:57:52
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| Thank you!!! I have that marriage certificate and I can see how the transcriber saw Lauyer instead of Lawyer. That's pretty much all I know about this man. That he married my grandmother and then divorced her. |
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 29/10/2021 : 10:06:38
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Originally posted by jkmarler
Here is a Sarah Michaelson aged about 30 years living in Sangamon county, Illinois in 1880:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXKF-WW1
She apparently has a baby named Theodore Michaelson aged 1 month. Have you ever heard of this child?
There are a couple of family trees which identify another son of John Michaelson and Sarah Lawyer as this person named William Mickles. This is his SS application transcription:
Name: William Mickles
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 20 Sep 1877
Birth Place: Near Mechani, Illinois
Father:
John Mickles
Mother:
Sarah Lawyer
SSN: 561073549
Notes: Apr 1937: Name listed as WILLIAM MICKLES
On his WWII draft registration card his birth place is listed as Mechanicsburg, Illinois.
William Mickles lived with his wiife and in-laws in the 1900 census in Macoupin county, Illinois. At the time of his marriage he was living in Virden, Illinois. In 1910 census, he and his family are in Yakima county, Washington. They were in Yakima to at least 1913. By 1918 they are in Fresno county, California. William died on 3 Nov 1947 in Fresno county, California. Looking for clues about John Michaelson but William is apparently not informed. The birthplace given for his father in 1900 is Illinois and United States for the other census years.
Anyway, here is rendering of a name like Mickles also at Virden in FAG which wasn't up the first time this topic was popular:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186756564/john-micklus
There are two John Michaelson who appear to be the same man one from the 1880 census (age is off by 5 years) and 1900 (age is off by 4 years). The reason I think they might be the same man is that their marital statuses kind of match and they are proximate to the known location of John Michaelson, and they may be the same man since they have the same occupation in nursery or "nursery stock."
In 1900 this John is living in Peoria, Illinois and in 1880 in Logan county. Logan county borders Sangamon county, Peoria is a couple of counties away.
Here is the 1900 census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS41-F9Q
Here is the 1880 census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXV6-6L6
In the 1900 census, the year of migration given is 1850. I checked Volume 5 of the Norwegian Immigrants to the United States: A biographical directory 1850 but found no John / Johan/ Johannes/ Jon/ Jens / Michaelson / Mikkelsen/ Miklesen/ in the index. Likewise no Michaelson from the parishes of Nerstrand, Nes (Hedmark), Spydeberg, and Hedrum.
But there is a John Nicolson, born Denmark abt 1837 in Sangamon county in 1860:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXHK-FVL
And another or the same John Nicolson b 1839 Denmark:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6WJ-BRP
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 30/10/2021 : 08:56:42
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Originally posted by jkmarler
It would be interesting to research this fellow. He is about the right age to be your John Michaelson but apparently gone home for a visit and here is returning to America:
http://digitalarkivet.arkivverket.no/en-gb/gen/vis/8/pe00000000573910
Apparently, the American resident leaving Norway was headed to Milnor in North Dakota:
Name: Johannes Mikkelsen
Gender: Male
Marital status: Single
Age: 70
Birth Date: abt 1836
Last Known Residence: Kr Jania
Departure Port: Liverpool, England
Arrival Date: 22 Jul 1906
Arrival Port: New York, New York, USA
Final Destination: Millnor, North Dakota
Ship Name: Cedric
According to the 1900 census at Milnor, this Johannes migrated to US in 1872. In the 1880 census he and his family were in Freeman Crawford county, Wisconsin. |
Edited by - jkmarler on 30/10/2021 09:09:15 |
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