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Ron Iverson
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Posted - 17/03/2015 :  22:53:48  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The Digitalarkivet parish registers for Bergen includes a set of records identified with "Stiftelsepresten", or: "Stiftelsepresten/Kommunepresten". Was this a parish church? Many of the entries seem to be for indigent people, or work house residents.
Ronald A. Iverson

Hopkins
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Posted - 18/03/2015 :  13:13:52  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Stiftelse is defined in this useful online list of words
http://home.online.no/~otjoerge/files/word.htm
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eibache
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Norway
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Posted - 18/03/2015 :  15:32:20  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Stiftelser in Bergen:
Pleiestiftelsen for spedalske nr. 1, Zander Kåes stiftelse, Dankert Krohns stiftelse, og Stranges stiftelse.
Einar
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