My great-grandmother Julia Andersen and her two younger sisters emigrated from Christiana to New Zealand on the ship Hovding in 1872. I know very little about her background. However, i recently discovered a photograph of a family - husband & wife with young daughter and three sons. The photo was taken at a studio in Boston. Mass. On the reverse an inscription says: Dette Portrait bleu tagen 10 September, 1894 and is signed - Aksel Andersen. Does anyone know about this photo? - or can anyone offer any information /suggestions where i might locate descendants of the family? I can send a copy of the photo by email if you think you can identify the family.
P.S. Since first posting this query I have found out that Julia and her sisters did not live in Christiana - they only sailed from there. Their family home was in Eidskog - a small town in Hedmark County.
I can´t help you with the photo, but since you know little from her bacground, your Julie Andersen was from Eidskog in Hedmark county north east from Oslo.
You seems to alredy know, I didn´t notice your correction from last night, sorry. I wonder if Andersen was a family name or if she was born to Anders (unknown last name)
It was 24 emigrants for New Zealand from Eidskog on Hĝvding 1872, the emigration records for Eidskog has none of the sisters recorded as I read it, this is not unusual.
Thanks Kare & Kaarto for your reply. i have found the names of Julia (Julie) and her two sisters (Lovise & Amalie) on the list of emigrants compiled by the Norwegian police - in the last 24 hours- which is exciting as until two days ago i had no idea how my g-grandmother came to be in NZ. (I didn't even know that she had come with her sisters.) Now I want to find out what became of Lovise and Amalie. I need to start searching NZ marriage & death records.
I still want to find out about the people in the photo. I suspect that they might be Julie's brother's family. i was hoping someone in Boston - or other parts of the US - might have a matching copy of the photo since it was taken in a studio and mounted on card.
Aksel Andersen
Posted - 05/03/2009 : 03:10:12
