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Ola Stevenson
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 Posted - 18/07/2011 : 04:50:12
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Ola Stevenson
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Australia
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Posted - 03/08/2011 : 05:19:37
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Sorry to be slow with this, but I have not been able to find the birth/marriage/death certificates which I hold (somewhere!) so I am going to order new copies soon. At the moment, I have been very busy renovating my house with the help of my sons (while I can get them!)
I've certainly not forgotten about this and will definitely come back to you all once I've got more information. :)
Cheers,
Ola
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Ola Stevenson
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Posted - 12/02/2014 : 05:01:03
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Hi,
I am very sorry that this has taken me so long, but I've finally got a copy of my father's death certificate.
Details:
William Stevenson died on 3 August 1942 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, aged 71 years. His occupation was listed as "Oil Merchant". He was cremated at Brisbane Crematorium on 4 August 1942.
His parents were noted as William Fraser Stevenson (Sea Captain) and Gwendolin Olga Watson.
He was noted as being born in "Neuhuse Bergen Norway" and as being in Australia for 50 years.
I shall try to look up the crematorium to see if I can get any further details from there. :)
Cheers,
Ola
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 13/02/2014 : 04:13:19
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Hi Ola,
It has been a long time since you posted. Welcome back!
The basic vital record for births in Norway, historically speaking, are the baptismal records which were recorded by the pastor or clerk in the local parish church. The church in most cases in Norway was Lutheran. Lutheran religion is the state religion in Norway. In a few areas there were people who believed otherwise than Lutheran and created their own congregations and worshiped otherwise. Up to then, they were recorded in the Lutheran records in separate sections within the regular books or with notes of their dissent in individual entries and after then they are most likely to be recorded in separate listings, depending on how large a community they might belong.
Here is the search engine to the baptismal records created in the numerous Lutheran parishes in the city of Bergen. This database consists of transcriptions of the records of the baptisms and virtually every piece of information contained in those records from 1816-1894. There are about 82000 baptisms performed during that time included in the database. I have worked the search engine repeatedly but have not found any person who I felt could reasonably be your William Stevenson. You will find that some details match but the parents' names are a hurdle But perhaps you want to have a go at this engine yourself to satisfy your own mind.
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&sidenr=22&filnamn=dp12011816&fjernsok=true
(Sorry link is not workable today 13 Feb. Eventually by the end of March 2014 this method of searching will be gone entirely --if the plan goes as planned.)
But the new information helps smooth out some of the prior uncertainty about William Stevenson. So here is a time line of his dates from the d.c.:
William Stevenson
1871 born Bergen, Norway at Neuhouse (Norwegian for "new house" would be Nyhus)
parents:
William Fraser Stevenson
Gwendolin Olga Watson
father's occupation: Sea / Ship's captain
1892 year of arrival in Queensland, Australia
____ year of marriage
1939 year of the birth of son Ola
1942 year of death
his own occupation: Oil merchant
You might consider getting, if you don't already have. your parents' marriage certificate and your own birth certificate. If modern Australian records are like modern American records a vital fact or clue may have been recorded which could help.
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Ola Stevenson
Starting member
Australia
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Posted - 13/02/2014 : 06:48:52
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Hi Jackie,
Many thanks for answering my post so quickly again, and for the welcome back! A few things have happened in the intervening years that prevented me from getting back to finding my family.
I have ordered a copy of my parents' marriage certificate and am told that it may take up to two weeks to arrive, so I will let you know what I get when it comes through. Meantime, my year of birth is 1939, so I was 3 1/2 when my father died.
If I can work out how to put a copy of my father's death record image here, I will!
Cheers,
Ola
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Ola Stevenson
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Posted - 13/02/2014 : 06:55:53
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
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Posted - 13/02/2014 : 15:15:08
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So cool to see the document...
The services were Presbyterian. Perhaps there's a record in a church?
I didn't remember this, your middle name is Sever?
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jkmarler
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Ola Stevenson
Starting member
Australia
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Posted - 14/02/2014 : 07:12:37
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Originally posted by jkmarler
So cool to see the document...
The services were Presbyterian. Perhaps there's a record in a church?
I didn't remember this, your middle name is Sever?
I will update the timeline
Thank you, Jackie. Yes, my middle name is Sever.
I will email the Presbyterian Church to enquire about records held. 
Thank you also for checking the records in the above post. It seems that there is nothing of relevance there, sadly. 
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jkmarler
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William STEVENSON
