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lornejohnson
Senior member
Canada
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 Posted - 19/09/2017 : 06:01:08
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| If you could pinpoint one or two top reasons for the vast number of people leaving Scandinavia in the 1800's, what would they be? The Irish had the potato famine - what was it that inspired so many to leave Norway, Sweden and Finland ? |
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 19/09/2017 : 16:01:15
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| The potato and advent of vaccination. The potato lead to less starvation and more people being able to survive. Vaccination also meant that people who would likely have died, didn't. Unsustainable growth in population meant that the population was ripe for migration. |
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Kċarto
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 20/09/2017 : 00:06:13
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Shortness of food and land was the main reason, but also political and religious oppression. And adventure.
Emigration started on the country side, but continued from the towns.
Total 800 000, 50% of the population emigrated to N. America.
The first emigration started in the 1600s, seamen with or without family mainly settled down in New Amsterdam (New York) and Manhattan and Breukelen (Brooklyn)
The register are bad, but we know the names of some of the families, one came from Bergen town took the name Hans Bergen, a family took the family name Normann, means Norwegian, and two brothers Albert and Arent Andrissen, and a famly named Bratt came to N. Amsterdam 1640, and their descendants are perhaps 7 numbered. Many of them lived in the same area after 1661 when the area was taken over by G.Britain.
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lornejohnson
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Canada
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Posted - 26/09/2017 : 03:59:18
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Thank you both for your reply. I appreciate it.
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Immigration out of Norway
