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janrm
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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 Posted - 05/10/2011 : 23:59:03
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This is probably the record of his arrival in America. He lists his destination as Nebraska City.
Name: Martin Jansen
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842
Date of Arrival: 6 Sep 1880
Vessel: Moravian
Search Ship Database: View the 'Moravian' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: Quebec, Quebec
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England; Londonderry, Ireland
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 06/10/2011 : 02:12:59
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Hi,
Here is address for the usgenweb page of Otoe County, Nebraska which has a lot of interesting databases:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~neotoe/
Nebraska City is located in Otoe County.
Jackie M. |
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 06/10/2011 : 03:10:18
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Jan
Do you know if he was going to meet some one. He is a little difficult to find in the 1900 US Census. |
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janrm
Medium member
Norway
80 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2011 : 07:33:56
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Originally posted by lyndal40
Jan
Do you know if he was going to meet some one. He is a little difficult to find in the 1900 US Census.
Thanks a lot! This is great news!
Unfortunately I have no more info on his journey to America. I have some more info on his family in Norway though, if it is of any help? |
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 06/10/2011 : 12:31:41
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Hi,
Some might help In particular, do you know of any other relatives of his who came to US, his generation or later? When did his parents and siblings die?
His arrival in Aug 1880 means he's too late to be in the US Federal census of that year, so its a long 20 years til the next surviving whole country census taken in 1900.
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janrm
Medium member
Norway
80 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2011 : 15:49:01
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Hi Jackie!
Thanks again for your reply,
Martin was the son of Jan Johansen Strandbakken (1801-68) and Kristine Tjøstølsdatter (1814-79)
I'll be back with details on his siblings, there is a possibility he may have used Sletta, Holter or even Holtersletta/-en as surname.
(other farms he lived on)
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
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Posted - 06/10/2011 : 17:08:28
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Here is a llink to a list of farmers in Otoe County, Nebraska for the years 1890-1891. . There is a Martin Janssen found on the list. Unfornately no other data is given and I have not yet found him in the 1900 US Census.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~neotoe/otgaz1hl.htm |
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janrm
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Norway
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
9301 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2011 : 22:27:35
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You are correct, here is the record for Petter. Ole and mother are right below Petter. You mention that they were log drivers. What does a log driver do. Nebraska is for the most part an agricultural state not a logging state. Maybe they moved up to Montana?
Name: Petter Bredman
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1861
Date of Arrival: 6 Sep 1880
Vessel: Moravian
Search Ship Database: View the 'Moravian' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: Quebec, Quebec
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England; Londonderry, Ireland
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janrm
Medium member
Norway
80 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2011 : 23:28:53
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Thanks!
A log driver (tømmerfløter) floats timber down the river.
I have found Martin's siblings:
Anne, b 1845 No details after 1875
Gjertrud Marie 1851-1917 (died from tyfoid fever)
Brede, (1854-1936) |
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
7790 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2011 : 01:18:35
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Hi
Martin's town in the directory is given as Syracuse. It appears to be in the center part of Otoe County,
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/resources/OLLibrary/Maps_Atlas/1885_Atlas/maps/otoe.jpg
And here is a person listed as a volunteer to search all sorts of Otoe County records:
SYRACUSE, NEBRASKA and Otoe County
Linda Worrall
PO Box 388
Syracuse, NE 68446
402-269-2303
e-mail: lworrall728@hotmail.com
Experience in genealogy research for 7 years. Graduate of "American Genealogy: A Basic Course" from the National Genealogical Society. Member of the National Genealogy and Nebraska Genealogy Societies. Taught beginning genealogy classes, computer experience in research and family tree programs, have done research for other families for 2 years. Have knowledge in courthouse records, newspapers, mortuaries, cemeteries, church records, census, etc., and will research all sources for Otoe County.
If we are unable to generate records you may want to give Linda a whirl....
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
9301 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2011 : 16:54:37
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Here is a candidate for your Martin Jansen. Postive is that he is named Martin Jansen and he immigrated in 1880. However as you can see he is living in the Chicago Illinois area not Nebraska and his birth year is way off. However 1900 is twenty years after his arrival so perhaps his life had changed.
Name: Martin Jansen
Home in 1900: Worth, Cook, Illinois
[Blue Island, Cook, Illinois]
Age: 60
Birth Date: May 1840
Birthplace: Norway
Race: White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year: 1880
Relationship to head-of-house: Servant
Father's Birthplace: Norway
Mother's Birthplace: Norway
Marital Status: Single
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
9301 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2011 : 17:12:56
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Perhaps the above Martin Jansen died in 1930. Here is a death record from Cook County, Illinois.
Name: Martin Janssen
Death Date: 6 Jan 1930
Death Location: Cook County, IL
File Number: 6001309
Archive collection name: Cook County Genealogy Records (Deaths)
Archive repository location: Chicago, IL
Archive repository name: Cook County Clerk
There is a second Martin Janssen that shows up in the death records, dieing in 1940, but he apperars to have been born in 1889 in Germany and immigrated in 1913.
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jkmarler
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
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Posted - 08/10/2011 : 18:44:36
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| Jackie, I wonder if your Martin Janssen is the same as the Martin Jansen found in the 1900 US Census from Blue Island, Cook County. I cannot find any Martin Janssen or Jansen or Jensen or other variation in Ogle County in the 1900 US Census. Ogle and Cook are separated by two other counties so it may be a stretch. |
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