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Robert van Haastert
Starting member
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 Posted - 13/12/2005 : 22:45:12
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Ole Rasmusson, born in Norway October 1836, emigrated in 1861 and settled as a farmer in Wanamingo, Minnesota.
In the Minnesota 1870 and 1880 census he and his family are listed as Rasmusson's; in the Minnesota 1900 census he and his family were listed as Finne's; Ole R. Finne.
Ole's first son was named John, and second son was named Rasmus Olaus.
Ole's first wife, and mother of their daughter Mary K. Finne, is listed as Hilma. Ole and Hilma may have emigrated as a married couple. Mary K. Finne was born in Minnesota 1864 and Hilma died before 1868.
I would appreciate any assistance in finding Ole Rasmusson in the passenger lists and any other genealogical information.
Thank you for your time and assistance.
Robert van Haastert
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skbristol
Junior member
USA
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Posted - 19/12/2005 : 06:38:00
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Hi Robert. Norway has a ton of records online at the Digitalarkivet -- http://digitalarkivet.uib.no -- but it's a little tricky to search because the English link doesn't work so well and it's best to work in Norwegian. The 1801 and 1865 census records are both online -- unfortunately for you, the relative you mentioned falls between these dates.
Without knowing anything at all about what area your ancestors may have come from, I found a young boy named Rasmus who lived on a farm named Finne in 1801. I suspect he's the father of your Ole Rasmusson, but you'll need to find a bygdebψk or church records to confirm the relationship. The family is not living here in 1865.
Finne farm, Voss parish, Hordaland, Norway
Knud Nielsen, husbund, 60, first marriage, Comissair ved forligelses comissionen samt bonde og gaardbeboer (ask for translation help)
Kristie Knudsdtr, his wife, 50, first marriage
Claus Knudsen, his son, 29, single, lives with parents
Niels Knudsen, his son, 17, single, lives with parents
Knud Knudsen, his son, 14, lives with parents
Inger Knudsdtr, his daughter, 20, single, lives with parents
Anna Knudsdtr, his daughter, 9, lives with parents
Dψnnaat Kolbensdtr, his servant, 20, single, 1 year servant
Knud Amundsen, lodger, 36, single, day laborer
Kristie Aadsdtr, lodger, 43, single, Lever af sine midler K
Siur Ma****en, husband, 46, first marriage, pauper without land
Brita Rasmusdtr, his wife, 41, first marriage, pauper
Matthis Siursen, their son, 13, lives with parents
Rasmus Siursen, their son, 4, pauper lives with parents
Knud Siursen, their son, 10, pauper lives with parents
Marita Siursdtr, their daughter, 7, pauper lives with parents
Jaen Jacobsen, husbund, 72, third marriage, pauper without land
Christie Botolfsdtr, his wife, 52, first marriage, pauper
Botolf Jaensen, their son, 9, lives with parents
Magdelie Knudsdtr, lodger, 66, single, day laborer
Erich Nielsen, husbund, 55, first marriage, owner and lives on the farm
Maria Nielsdtr, his wife, 55, first marriage
Anfin Erichsen, his son, 25, single, lives with parents
Knud Erichsen, his son, 17, single, lives with parents
Claus Erichsen, his son, 13, lives with parents
Margrethe Knudsdtr, servant, 30, single, 1 year servant
Anna Johannesdtr, welfare recipient, 87, widowed first marriage, pauper
Guri Knudsdtr, servant, 74, single, lodger near her work |
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skbristol
Junior member
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Posted - 19/12/2005 : 06:39:45
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Shoot. I have no idea why the **** appeared -- and especially on the very name you needed to know!
Siur's last name was Ma****en. |
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skbristol
Junior member
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47 Posts |
Posted - 19/12/2005 : 06:42:23
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Again. This is annoying...
M a t i s s e n |
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Borge
Veteran Moderator
Norway
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Posted - 19/12/2005 : 09:39:43
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From 1853 most Norwegian emigrants traveled on ships sailing directly from Norway to Quebec. If your ancestors were among those emigrating before 1853, you should have a good chance of finding them on a passenger list to New York or another US port. However, the Canadians did not begin the archiving of passenger lists before 1865 (for the port of Quebec). Norwegian records of emigrants did not start until 1867. This means that for the majority of Norwegian emigrants leaving in the period from 1853 up to 1865, there are no surviving passenger lists. Only a very small number of Norwegians traveled via England to New York on steamships in this period (it was much more expensive then a sailing ship). Many of these emigrants might be listed in police passport lists and Norwegian parish lists, but these do not give any information about what ships they traveled on.
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Hopkins
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 19/12/2005 : 14:47:36
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Robert -
Wanamingo in Goodhue County, Minnesota? Right? That's in the southeast corner of Minnesota and nearly 'walking distance' north of another hub of Norwegian-American settlement, the area of Alamakee and Winneshiek Counties of Iowa. There were many records kept and published in and about that area.
Have you scoured the Goodhue area records that might be available? - hoping upon hope for some even slight mention of WHERE in Norway Ole Rasmussen/Finne and his family originated? Local newspapers, obituaries, church records, Minnesota state censuses, county/town/church published histories, land and/or deed records, etc, True - these US and Minnesota records might not contain any help about finding emigration information but even more interesting will be to find the parish of their origin.
In a Norwegian book about American settlements of emigrants the paragraphs about Goodhue County were translated and posted on the Internet last year by Olaf Kringhaug. http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/textindices/N/NOR-OPPLAND+2004+8121720771+F
If you read that carefully you will see a 'Nils Fenne' from Voss [Hordaland] - that might be a strong clue to link to the information posted here earlier by SKBristol.
In the LDS library catalog they list two published county history books, many county birth, marriage and death records, While that catalog does not list any church records for Goodhue County in their collection (doesn't mean they don't still exist somewhere) - they DO have Voss church records available on microfilm and those records might list the 'Utflytte' (leaving the parish) record that would match your Rasmussen family members - a very strong piece of evidence! There are also active American groups of Voss Norway area descendants which may be able to get you started. Check for a link to the Vosselag.
http://www.fellesraad.com/
There are also several persons who have volunteered to do limited lookups for the Voss Hordaland area. Check also at these websites -
http://www.rootsweb.com/~norway/lookups.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~bwo/
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wgnorway/lookups.html
Two other websites concerning history/genealogy information for Goodhue County, Minnesota -
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mngoodhu/
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mngoodh2/
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Robert van Haastert
Starting member
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Posted - 03/01/2006 : 21:08:07
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Hello Everyone,
After taking a holiday break, I finally had a chance to check back.
THANK YOU's for the most informative replies! Not knowing a lick of Norwegian and treading in unfamilar waters, your answers definitely are a great help.
Most of my research has been in the other part of the world - Dutch East Indies and in Holland; my granddaughter is a Dahl <and a doll she is> and Ole R. Finne is her 4G-Grandfather.
I will definitely check out the reference URLs and report back to this discussion what I uncovered, hopefully, sucessful. My homepage URL is http://www.mtaonline.net/~rvh/gen.htm.
Once Again - Mucho Thanks for the assistance!
Robert van Haastert |
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Robert van Haastert
Starting member
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Posted - 24/01/2006 : 23:12:48
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Hello Everyone,
I scoured around reviewing any webpage that might have information, but I came up with nada to tie Ole R. Finne to the early Goodhue County settlers.
Thanks again for the assistance.
Robert van Haastert |
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Ole Rasmusson - emigrated 1861
