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unclepete
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 Posted - 23/01/2014 : 01:21:50
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I haven't posted here for a long time but my Gt Gt Grandfather Samuel Nikolai Leth, ships carpenter, lived at kittlebuksvein 7 Arendal born 1824 died april 1864. I cant find a cause of his death. I'm looking at all options and recently discovered that Norwegian Volunteers fought at the Battle of Dybbol Denmark in the second Schleswig War. This was in April 1864 the same month Samuel died. Samuels ancestors were Danish and his Aunt (Catherine 'Kitty' Kallevig) was married to Morten Kallevig, son of the Danish Consul in Arendal who built the old Arendal Town Hall as their family home so Samuel had stong danish connections.
Is there a list of names of the Norwegians who fought and died at Dybbol. I'm also researching in danish records
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Kåarto
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Norway
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Posted - 23/01/2014 : 08:30:28
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I have not found anything about Norwegian volunteers in the battle of Dybbol.
There were Norwegian high ranked officers who partissipated on Danish side were mentioned under the honorable name "De norske graner" The norwegian spruce. Memorial stone outside the Norwegian Military academi link
Norway send a regiment and two artillery batteries on ca 3000 men to Swedish Skåne in readyness 1864. Norway who was in a personal union with Sweden, as the Swedes, rejected to support the Danes.
Samuel Nicolai Leth died as "Strandsitter" a person who owned a house without land on rented land by the sea.
If he died in war it would most likely have been mentioned.
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Edited by - Kåarto on 23/01/2014 09:48:32 |
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Kåarto
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Norway
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Posted - 23/01/2014 : 10:31:22
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Have you seen this?
"Leths hus" Leths house in Arendal owned by Stadshauptman Isaac Leth, sold to Arendal municipality 1877, Police station until 1941, restored 1975.
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Kåarto
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Norway
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Posted - 23/01/2014 : 23:27:43
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In fact, there exist a book published by Akademika, Trondhein town, by military-author Carl Johan Anker;
"Norske frivillige i de Danske Forsvarskrige Fra 1848-50 Og i 64"
Norwegian volunteers in the Danish defence war 1848-50 and 1864, only for sale link
Carl Johan Anker 1835-1903 was a Norwegian officer who served as Captain in the Norwegian Royal Guard in Stockholm, Sweden, from ca 1855, 1897 promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in "Landstormen" ("older" soldiers that could only be used to defend Norway and not be send abroad)
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vivi
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eibache
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Posted - 24/01/2014 : 12:23:33
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I read "Dødsfallprotokollen" as follows:
Strandsidder og Tømmermand Samuel Nicolai Leth af Varmekrogen under Gaarden østre Strømsboe 40 Aar. Afdøde efterlader Enken Maren Gurine Jensdatter og 4 umyndige Børn af Ægteskabet med Faderen. Ingen af Ægtefolkene haver tidligere været gift.
Anmeldt af Enken
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Kåarto
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Posted - 24/01/2014 : 14:59:53
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A god finding Vivi 
This is the perecursor to the probate register.
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Kåarto
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Posted - 24/01/2014 : 20:16:02
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Since "Dødsfallprotokollen" was rec. in Nedenes Bailiff district I hoped that the probateregister was rec. in the same districit, or I might have overlooked it:
I have come to Jan. 1866, started April 1864.
The protocols are extremely detailed , income, assets, creditors etc are rec. and the heirs are numbered from one upwards and what they inherited.
I do not know how long time it took in this district before the protocol was rec. I know that sometimes it took several years.
An example from Nedenes district.
Protocol Nr 2. 1 Jan. 25. 1866. after deceased Guro Taraldsdatter from farm Hestklev...........and it continues one and a half page to Nr. 2, see lower part of left page link
It`s just to contiune looking if anyone wants
Or perhaps Samuel N. Leth was rec. in another protocol.
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unclepete
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Posted - 29/01/2014 : 01:00:24
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Thank you for your help. The Leth family has been well documented over many years in Norway but the cause of Samuels death aged 40 is still a mystery. It seems he didn't die in battle so I'll keep researching.
Can anyone tell if there were newspapers at that time and could Samuels cause of death be recorded there? It seems unusual that a man so young could die and no cause of death be recorded somewhere.
Again, thank you for your help and the valuable information you have given me.
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Norwegian Volunteers at Battle of Dybbol Denmark
