Elias olsen gotaas left Norway approximately around 1852. would their be any passport registers for any period around that date and after to 1859 ? Elias was crew on a ship from London to Australia in 1859.
Gotaas is a farm in Skogn. According to the church records, one Elias (Elisæus) Ols. b. on farm Kjønstad May 17th 1831 moved from Alstadhaug Parish to Trondheim in 1852. Could this be him?