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jmfristad
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USA
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Posted - 29/08/2007 :  06:24:27  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hope that title caught people's attention! Here's the story...
Have been trying to validate this story for years.

In the summer of 1903, my ggg-grandfather Johann Fristad was forced to leave his position as Politikonstabel in Bergen. Apparently his sense of justice exceeded his restraint, for on a certain occasion he confronted a man accused of beating his wife. After thrashing the man senseless he left him, alive, near the docks of the port city. Somehow the hapless wife-beater fell into the water, where he drowned. Thus the rapid exit from police career service in Bergen, the "official" transfer to service as a military consultant, and emigration to the United States until the smoke had cleared.

The emigration has been proven, but I am looking for ANYTHING that might corroborate the rest of the story; Bergen newspapers from 1903, police records, dismissal stuff, military, anything...
Thanks.

eibache
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Norway
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Posted - 29/08/2007 :  08:24:01  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You must be a very young fellow having a ggg-grandfather living in 1903!
Einar
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Hopkins
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USA
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Posted - 29/08/2007 :  13:35:11  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Have you consulted with any local genealogical group and/or historical society in Bergen? They might have knowledge of any surviving documentation still available and have advice where you might start your 'digging'.
But it might be a story which can never be documented.
Good luck.
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jmfristad
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Posted - 29/08/2007 :  16:30:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I've posted on two Norwegian genealogy forums, but have never had any responses. I try every so often - maybe someday!
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