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iverskat
Starting member
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 Posted - 14/08/2004 : 07:57:27
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Hi-Have a question about the town in Norway some of our ancestors might of came from...all i know is it has to do with the fishing industry and is large. My ancestors(Iverson)came from there and i think on the Christiania. Knowing this might help find out more about them. Thanks |
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kerrie
Junior member
Australia
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Posted - 14/08/2004 : 08:21:37
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| You will have to supply more information for someone to help you. Names of your ancestors and approximate dates of birth will help then someone can check the census in Norway. Do you know when they arrived in America? |
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askeroi
Senior member
Norway
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Posted - 14/08/2004 : 08:24:05
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The needle in the haystack? Or only the needle?
There aren't many "large" towns in Norway - by any standard. Unless your angle is a small farm in a valley or by the coast.
But there are lots of towns along the coast build up on fishing industry.
But if you give us some names and dates - maybe we can find the ones you are looking for in the cencus' 1801, 1865 or 1900 and thereby find the town you're searching for...
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iverskat
Starting member
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Posted - 14/08/2004 : 20:12:51
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| we are looking ar the 1801 cencus if we can-names:Iver Iverson and something like Johnsburg or Johanasburg |
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Hopkins
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
3351 Posts |
Posted - 14/08/2004 : 23:35:25
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| Why not share the names and vital dates of the persons you are looking for? any other clues you are holding secret too... Some of us have a great deal more experience in searching those databases and making them "perform". |
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iverskat
Starting member
USA
24 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2004 : 05:47:27
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| sorry, this is harder than i thought...i have two names besides Iver Iverson..Ira Kimber-born November 14th,1859 and aNicolay M Klingenberg born March17,1873(died 1939).Finding this was great to me, but i would still like to know where someone came from originally. thanks |
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askeroi
Senior member
Norway
299 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2004 : 07:43:13
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Hm. Strange. Iver Ivarson and Nicolai Klingenberg could very well be norwegian names. But Ira Kimber and Johanesburg does not - it sounds more like South Africa to me.
But at FS I find an Ira F Kimber born ca. 1860 who could fit:
Ira F. KIMBER Household
Male
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Other Information:
Birth Year <1860>
Birthplace MN
Age 20
Occupation Working On Farm At Home
Marital Status S <Single>
Race W <White>
Head of Household William KIMBER
Relation Son
Father's Birthplace NY
Mother's Birthplace NY
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Source Information:
Census Place Hesper, Winneshiek, Iowa
And a Nicolai Klingenberg died in Larvik in 1838:
http://www.rhd.uit.no/skifter/sk_56.html
This could be family. And Larvik is a possible town like the one you are looking for. But there's no Klingenbergs there in 1865. And the Klingenberg family can be traced back to the 16/17th century Trondheim. And that is a 'large' town by norwegian standards - in fact it was the capitol of Norway in the middle ages and also the religious centre of all the northern part of the then known world (Norway, Iceland, Greenland etc.)
Unfortunately there's no Nicolai in the 1875 nor 1900 cencus in Norway. But there is an Iver Iverson in Trondheim in 1801:
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=f11601&variabel=0&postnr=8521&fulle=true&spraak=n
if yours can be born around 1794, but none in 1865...
At least here's some clues while you're looking up more information ... |
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iverskat
Starting member
USA
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Posted - 15/08/2004 : 08:23:17
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| thanks you askeroi-and i am getting to the conclusion they all settled in Iowa :) ---but i will keep your findings on record too and some day maybe see what place my G G G G Granddad came from....ty |
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Brining
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 15/08/2004 : 17:16:45
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In the 1910 US Census
KLINGENBERG NICOLY 37 M W NORW IA WINNESHIEK DECORAH TWP Parents Norwegian immigration year 1892
Nothing pops out in the passenger lists on the Digitalarkivet so he probably traveled using his patronym. Have you gotten copies
of his death certificate, marriage license, naturalization papers? Finding his fathers name would help a lot in locating him in Norway
Carla
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iverskat
Starting member
USA
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Posted - 16/08/2004 : 07:02:18
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Decorah is where they settled-and where my parents were both born..we are seeing about his fathers name now.
I have found out my mothers father came from Stavager,Norway on the Baltic in 1908. |
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askeroi
Senior member
Norway
299 Posts |
Posted - 16/08/2004 : 07:10:58
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Dear Kathie
Please remember that we who try to help, see loads of questions every day. You can't expect us to remember the name and birth year of your mother's father when he suddenly (re?)appear like this. And it's a waste of our time to make us look it up - again. PLEASE GIVE releavant information simultaniously with asking....
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iverskat
Starting member
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Posted - 17/08/2004 : 04:32:48
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| sorry, i wasn't asking you to look up anything-just am gald to have found that out and expressed it. |
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askeroi
Senior member
Norway
299 Posts |
Posted - 17/08/2004 : 09:05:41
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I appologise - to me it looked like you gave a new info about your mother's father and wanted to know more about him. Sorry - english isn't my native language... |
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iverskat
Starting member
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24 Posts |
Posted - 21/08/2004 : 08:09:40
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WELL, THIS IS ALL I HAVE:IVER IVERSON MARRIED KARI SWENSON(HALVORDSDATTER) IN WISCONSIN IN 1869
KARI'S FATHER WAS HALVORD SWENSON, AND WE SURE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT HALVORDS WIFES NAME WAS AS WELL. |
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Hopkins
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
3351 Posts |
Posted - 21/08/2004 : 19:03:34
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So WHO came over on the Baltic from Stavanger 1908?
Who are Ira Kimber and Nicolay M Klingenberg? How do they relate to the Iverson family?
If Iver Iverson married KARI SWENSON(HALVORDSDATTER) in Wisconsin in 1969 are they the persons you say settled in the Decorah Iowa area? What time period did they live in the Decorah Iowa area? Which censuses do they appear living there?
Someone came from an undetermined fishing area of Norway (Johnsburg?) - left on a ship called the Christiania? WHO? What year?
You are looking at the 1801 Norwegian census - for WHO? you have someone in particular born before 1801 in Norway that you have a name to search for?
What Decorah area, Iowa records have you already searched? Censuses? church records? vital records? obituaries? cemetery lists? The 1925 Iowa State census had an entry for the name (including maiden name) of every persons mother.... |
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 21/08/2004 : 19:51:09
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Hi,
just a note about the "norwegian" town of "Johnsburg..., could it be Tønsberg?
It's quite a large city on the southern coast of Norway (it's the "capital" of Vestfold county), and has a long fishing history. It's also the oldest town in Norway, founded year 871...
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