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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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 Posted - 18/05/2014 : 20:40:22
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There is a big project ongoing in Norway, to locate all the descendants after the 112 Eidsvoldsmen.
Project homepage: http://eidsvollsmenn.no/english
I followed your information, and found "Olaf Solberg" here, but no further information seems to be known about him.
Refresh my mind..., was Olaf Burros the son of Margaret Mikkelsdatter?
Olaf Solberg is listed as son of Kristofer Solberg and Emilie Weberg.
I remember that J.T. Burros was Josias Torstensen Boraastrøen, christened 01 JUL 1821 in Hegra, Nord-Trøndelag.
Thos Boros & Henry Boraas would be Josias Torstensen Boraastrøen's sons Torsten and Haagen. |
Edited by - jwiborg on 18/05/2014 20:59:00 |
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Erik Carsten
Advanced member
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Posted - 18/05/2014 : 21:08:01
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Hello Jan Peter. Yes Olaf was the son of Margaret and father Kristofer Olsen Solberg but he was illigitimate. Margaret left Norway with her son Olaf about a year after his birth claiming his father (Kristoffer) had died. We now know that Kristofer later remarried to Hanna Emilie Weberg and their first son was also named Oluf but he died young, and they had another son later that was renamed Oluf....
In America, Margaret finally married to Josias Børaas and Oluf later changed his name to Boraas and then finally Burros...presumably to sound more like the Norwegian pronouciation of the root spelling of Børås.... |
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Erik Carsten
Advanced member
USA
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Posted - 18/05/2014 : 21:10:42
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| Jan Peter....the illigitimate Olaf is not listed in the Eidsvollsmann project on the digitalarkivet....I think we can effectively prove he should belong there as he is listed in the farm book...his existence was known by the family but with time it was forgotten. YOu may remember that I made contact with the Solberg family in the Drammen area of Norway a couple of years ago. |
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 18/05/2014 : 21:18:28
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Congratulations then! 
Eidsvollsmann Cristofer Borgersen Hoen (1767-1845)
Picture was found here.
You can participate in the project by writing a mail to the group, and they might give you access to add info. http://eidsvollsmenn.no/contributors-or-guests |
Edited by - jwiborg on 18/05/2014 21:19:20 |
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Erik Carsten
Advanced member
USA
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Posted - 18/05/2014 : 21:31:11
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| Hello Jan Peter. Thank you that and I will send an email to the group to see if they are still updating the Eidsvollsmann files. This is quite exhilarating! |
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 21/05/2014 : 21:48:17
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There are more than 70 000 (!) descendants after the 112 Eidsvollsmen.  |
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Erik Carsten
Advanced member
USA
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Posted - 21/05/2014 : 22:43:18
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| Hi Jan Peter. That is amazing! I did contact the Eidsvollmenn project and they did add Oluf into the list of descendants so he has taken his 'rightful' place among them. It is something I am proud of. Soon I hope to visit Norway and my ancestral counties of Sør Trondelag and Gol. |
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Erik Carsten
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USA
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Posted - 22/05/2014 : 01:58:17
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Originally posted by jwiborg
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Originally posted by Erik Carsten
Based upon what you now know, what parish would you look at in the Arki.....records for birth and baptism for Oluf?
It's hard to tell where Oluf was born/christened. My guess would be Gol or Hemsedal, but I did look there without finding him.
It's a shame that the 1865-census for Gol/Hemsedal are lost, thus we don't know if Margaret was living there and married to a Christofer Solberg by then.
She could be this woman living in Eker, Buskerud, but she could also be living in Gol/Hemsedal by 1865.
To the right is a map of Buskerud county. The blue part shows the location in Norway. Gol/Hemsedal is way up in the mountains.
 
Jan Peter
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Jan Peter, I am going back to this post from 2008...where you very early on nailed it...and found Oluf's mother living on the farm of Børger Christophersen Hoen....who was the son of the Eidsvollsmann Christopher Børgersen Hoen....
It was Børger Christophersen's nephew (Kristoffer Olsen Solberg) who had the relationship with Margit...at this time most of Kristoffer Olsen's family, parents and siblings were living on the Solberg farm not far away.
I wonder how Margit from Hemsedal, Hallingdal got connected with these people? |
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 22/05/2014 : 19:59:40
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I noticed that this info have been added:
Mother: Marit Mikkelsdatter Teigen, b. 26 Mar 1845
Children: Oluf Kristoffersen Burros, b. 1870, d. Yes, date unknown
But is this info correct/precise?
I remember her name as Margit Mikkelsdatter Fauske, born 16 Jun 1830, chr 25 Jun 1830. (Ok, the farm was Fauske or Fauske-Teigen)
And 'O. J. Burros' was born 18 Apr 1870 Date is not listed. And his date of death is unknown? I think you had his death certificate? |
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 22/05/2014 : 21:30:35
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Originally posted by Erik Carsten
I wonder how Margit from Hemsedal, Hallingdal got connected with these people?
The distance between Fauske-Teigen farm in Hemsedal, Buskerud and Solberg farm in Eiker, Buskerud is about 120 miles, a considerable distance in those days.
My best guess is that the more populated Eiker region offered more jobs than the sparsely populated Hemsedal region up in the mountains. She also had a son outside marriage in 1856. Not sure if that could have influenced her decision to move out of the village. |
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Erik Carsten
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USA
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Posted - 22/05/2014 : 21:45:59
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| are the 1865 Hemsedal census records still lost? |
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 22/05/2014 : 21:51:21
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Yes, and they have been so for about 100 years.
The lists from the entire parish of Gol probably went missing when the census was handed over to the National Archives in 1910. |
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Erik Carsten
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USA
578 Posts |
Posted - 22/05/2014 : 21:58:40
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that is too bad. perhaps they are in a box somewhere....gathering dust in the far recesses of some dark cavernous storage area....maybe in the basement? ;)
have we checked the inflyttede records for Eiker, since knowning that is where Margit was in 1865? I looked through them but did not see anything. Perhaps a more experienced eye might find it? |
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
4961 Posts |
Posted - 25/05/2014 : 17:21:41
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Road sign near your ancestor's farm, Erik. |
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Erik Carsten
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Posted - 25/05/2014 : 18:41:00
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| HI Jan Peter...is this in Nord Trondelag? |
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Information on Margaret (Mickelstadther) Solberg
