Diff. to find Myrtle Jørgensdatter Kalhovde, this is what I found.
A Public Member Trees in Ancestry.com.uk on Kvamsdal family tree which I do not have acess to (not a member),tells that Myrtle Kalhovd died in Minnesota.
I misunderstood, sorry, it was a half sister of Myrtle you asked for.
Searching for Myrtle I found Ragna Johansdatter Kvamsdal b. Jan. 7. 1905. She married Halfdan Henriksen Kvamsdal link
I have searched the records from Masfjorden from ca 1906-1922 but can´t find any daughter born to Jørgen Jetmundsen Kalhovda. A possibilty is that she was born in another parish or rumors, but family rumors, although they are old, often have a sort of truth.
I started with genealogy based on ca 200 years old family loose threads/rumors given to me by my grandmother. As the records were available in the archives and later online it turned out that things were just as she had told
What about a half-sister through Anna Sørensd, Myrtle's mother?
Anna was born about 1888-1891. She had a brother named Ole Sorenson who was born about 1884 who also came to America at least by 1940.
Here is her death from www.mnhs.org: KALHOVD, ANNIE Date of Birth: 28 Mar 1886 Place of Birth: OUT OF STATE Mother Maiden Name: ERICKSON certid# 1971-MN-006773 Date of Death: 07 Mar 1971 County of Death: POPE
so in the church book on Petrine Marie Pedersdatter,what does it say in the last column to the right of Uegte?and what happened to the childs father since the child were born out of wedlock?
So it was Anna Sørensdatters daughter from Lekva in Hyllestad. I thought of her too. Mystery is solved. Family rumors are mostly with small changes quite reliable.
Yeah that's great,so when Anne left to go to the US Petrine was not with the family anymore? did she get adopted or did she marry and stayed behind in Norway maybee?
Petrine is diff. to find, I cant find her in the wedding rec. up to 1941 in Hillestad (I might have missed her) or in the em. records from Bergen searching Lekva, Hyllestad, but Anna Sørensdatter`s (Jørgen Jetmundsens Kalhovdas wife) brother Ole Sørensen Lekva b. Dec. 10. 1883 em. April 25. 1912 to family in Boston, Mass. link
Don't know if this is Petrine Marie or not but here are the taxpayers on Lekva in 1950:
Matrikkelutkastet av 1950 Sogn og Fjordane Hyllestad herad 49 Lekva 1 Lekva 0 mark 34 øre Marie Hovlandsvåg 2 Lekva 1 mark 34 øre Peder O. Hjelmeland 3 Lekva 1 mark 25 øre Artur Nikolai Hellem 4 Lekva 2 mark 00 øre Birger H. Lekva 5 Lekva 0 mark 63 øre Johan N. Lekva 6 Lekva 0 mark 11 øre Johan N. Lekva 7 Nedrebøen 0 mark 42 øre Sigurd B. Risnes 8 Lekva 0 mark 25 øre Marie Hovlandsvåg
From Hyllestad Bygdebook. Petrine is not mentioned, Anna Sørensdatter is mentioned as b. 1888 and on Lekva in 1900.
Søren Olsen Lekva bought Lekva 1886 from his sister and widow Østine Olsdatter. Sørens wife Marthe Eriksdatter was sister to Østines deceased husband Jens Eriksen Lekva.
Søren Olsen Lekva born 1853 on farm Rinde died 1931. His wife Marthe Eriksdatter b. 1853 on Lekva died 1934.
Anna Sørensdatter Lekva had 5 siblings; - Monsine Karine 1881 married to Gran in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag county - Ole 1883 em. to America 1912 - Your Anna 1886 - Ingeborg Andrine 1888 married Peder Sagen, Kvamsøy - Kari 1890, em. to Scotland - Edvard Johannes 1893, went through the ice and drowned 1905.
In 1932 Marthe Eriksdatter sold Lekva out of the family to Peder Henrik Hjelmeland from Bergen.
PORT OF NEW YORK PASSENGER RECORDS - There are no surviving Ellis Island records; the Immigration logs were destroyed in a fire in the 1920's. In processing immigrants, the Inspectors utilized the Federal Custom Declarations/Passenger Manifests provided by the ship captains to process the immigrants and referred to the names as provided on the lists.
Sigvald Magnar Kvamsdal 1944
Posted - 31/01/2013 : 12:00:25
