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mejensen1
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 Posted - 16/09/2009 : 07:52:36
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I am looking for information about Ole Evenson born about 1875 and who arrived in the USA in 1894.
He was a stone mason and eventually a small business owner delivering coal, and ice in summer residing in or near Westby, Vernon County, Wisconsin. My middle name at birth, Even, is based on his name.
-Mark Even Jensen
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vivi
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mejensen1
Junior member
USA
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Posted - 16/09/2009 : 11:53:20
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Thank you so much for the information. He married Josephine Gjefsen and they resided in Vernon County, Wisconsin, where Westby is now.
I recall my grandmother saying she found relatives in the Bergen area in the 1960s, which may have been her father's family and not her maternal grandmother's people.
Him being a sailor may well have been his youthful occupation, as that fits in with stories I might have heard. |
Edited by - mejensen1 on 16/09/2009 11:55:32 |
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Hopkins
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 16/09/2009 : 13:09:34
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In 1900 US census for Vernon Co., WI Ole Evenson lists himself as born in April 1874 in Norway and immigrated to US in 1893.
Indicated as stone/brick mason from 1900-1920 in censuses.
1920 US census indicates he became naturalized US citizen in 1907. Naturalization application and papers will probably give a great deal of detail about him, to probably include birthplace in Norway. Those papers should be sought out from the court of record where naturalization occurred.
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Kċarto
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 16/09/2009 : 22:15:09
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Sea man Ole Evensen from Biri, Oppland county, born 1874, his destination was Wisconsin, see left page and emigration record 1894 for #1
This Ole Evensen was from a sub farm under Bratberg, Bratberg-eie.
Beeing a young sea man in 1894 from Biri municipality at the western side of lake Mjĝsa, the inland/hinterland of Norway, I think he could have been a seaman on Skibladner
Are any of this names known to you.
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mejensen1
Junior member
USA
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Posted - 17/09/2009 : 00:33:12
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quote:
Originally posted by Hopkins
... in 1893.
Indicated as stone/brick mason... became naturalized US citizen in 1907. Naturalization application and papers ...the court of record where naturalization occurred.
Thank you very much for the above information! I need to investigate the Naturalization application record idea as I have not heard much about researching this sort of thing before! -Mark
PS Perhaps what I heard about Bergen, was deliberate misleading information, as Oslo and its relationship to its north of area might have been too easy to assume, than a previous to me at 14 unheard of area of Bergen. |
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vivi
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Kċarto
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Posted - 17/09/2009 : 14:48:58
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Hi.
The reason you didn´t find Ole Evensen´s birth record is because the church books for Biri from 1854-77 were lost in a fire in1890.
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Trond
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Posted - 17/09/2009 : 19:47:37
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| Ole Evensen (the one from Biri) arrived in New York from Liverpool on the steamship Britannic, Mar. 10 1894 according to the Ellis Island records. His destination: Westby, Wisconsin. |
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 17/09/2009 : 22:22:16
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Here is the passenger record from Ancestry.com
Name: Ole Evensen
Arrival Date: 10 Mar 1894
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1874
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Ethnicity/Race/Nationality: Norwegian
Ship Name: Britannia
Search Ship Database: Search the Britannia in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
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Kċarto
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 17/09/2009 : 22:22:53
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I find Ole Evensen from Bratbergeie in Biri interesting, need to be checked better in USA (good finding Vigdis).
Another name for farm Bratberg-eie was Kluften.
Here is some more information on Ole Evensen.
He had 2 siblings, a brother Hans Evensen born 1882 and a sister Anna Evensdatter born 1878.
Here are his parents Even Olsen and Eline Olsdatter on Kluften (a sub farm under nr 34, Bratberg, Bratberg-eie) in 1900.
Hans Evensen Kluften emigrated 1902, dest New York on ship Angelo, the ticket was paid for in advance, see here
Information tells he might have settled down in Wisconsin too because in 1907 the parents Even Olsen Kluften and Oline Ols. Kluften and daughter Anna emigrated, the ticket was paid for, dest Wisconsin on ship Oslo.
Purpose of the journey; To their children (Hans and Even).
Note: Even´s father was a "Murer" bricklayer, see here
I understand you need time to check this information.
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mejensen1
Junior member
USA
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Posted - 02/10/2009 : 03:18:43
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| The above was all great information, perhaps too much to handle! I did pass it on to any one who might be able to use it, however! Thanks so much everyone, but I ended up focusing more on the female line since this was posted and just rediscovered the great work! -Mark |
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mejensen1
Junior member
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Posted - 14/12/2009 : 20:12:01
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23andme has a NEW feature called "Relative Finder" in which ancestry not directly related to the unbroken maternal and paternal lines can be estimated as to a degree of relatedness.
Quite a number of possible 4th and 5th cousins have been provided, so research which simply includes "some" ancestry has a more obvious important value. I have been provided with 111 "cousins" with about 10 allowing contact and perhaps 6 actually responding, 2 of which are in Norway! |
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mejensen1
Junior member
USA
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Posted - 08/07/2011 : 05:45:41
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wow, it has been over 18 months since my last post...
i found an evenson on 23andme who has ashkenazi dna; i had forgotten about the "olsen" sort of thinking it was on my swedish side
i just submitted dna to gene tree which is associated with sorenson dna stuff, ftdna has 2 family finder autosomal chips for families, and i have gotten up to almost 400 people in relative finder on 23andme |
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Ole Evenson arrived 1894
