One guy we will have to eliminate. When I have the immigration record up on the screen on Ancestry.com, Ancestry also pulls up a lot of records for this guy. Now he is not an Offerdal so that helps.
Ole Hansen Burkum in the U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Name: Ole Hansen Burkum Birth Date: 4 Jan 1844 Birth Place: Lærdal kommune, Sogn og Fjordane fylke, Norway Death Date: Mar 1922 Death Place: Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States of America Cemetery: Mount Sterling Lutheran Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Mount Sterling, Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States of America Has Bio?: N
Ole Hansen Burkum might be this guy in the 1865 Census. Called Ole Hanssen Bjørkum
Both the 1900 and 1910 Census have 1870 as his immigration year.
Ole H Burkum in the 1910 United States Federal Census Name: Ole H Burkum Age in 1910: 66 Birth Year: abt 1844 Birthplace: Norway Home in 1910: Utica, Crawford, Wisconsin Race: White Gender: Male Immigration Year: 1870 Relation to Head of House: Father Marital status: Married Father's Birthplace: Norway Mother's Birthplace: Norway Native Tongue: English Naturalization Status: Papers Able to Read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Name Age Martin Burkum 27 Ole H Burkum 66 Hilda Burkum 39 Sam Burkum 31 Julia Burkum 24
Ole Hansen Offerdal Bjørkum Burkum 1845–1922 BIRTH 04 JAN 1845 • Offerdal, Lærdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway DEATH 1922 • Utica, Crawford, Wisconsin, USA
However the Tree says he got married in Norway in 1870
So he was a viable candidate but I think we can eliminate this one., unless he came to US in 1865 as a single man, went back to Norway got married and came back with wife in 1870.
Still need to keep looking to make sure we have not missed one.
My ancestor is in the US federal census in in June 1870 so its probably not him. This does not prove that the passenger on the Sleipner was my Ole it is looking more likely. About how many people would be from Offerdal anyway?
There is no record of a Ole Hansen Offerdal or Bjørkheim leaving Lærdal in 1865. The only record for him is when he left Lærdal in April of 1870 with his wife; Record is posted above under #40 and 41.
quote:About how many people would be from Offerdal anyway?
Tough question to accurately answer since many times Norwegians used a farm name in various ways. It may have been where they were living when they left, where they were born or even where they might have worked or lived in the time before they left Norway.
But there were 51 people living on the Oferdal farm in the 1865 Norwegian Census. Three with the first name of Ole none of these are of interest to you.
You can use the NHDC site and enter Oferdal as the farm name.
CASTLE GARDEN, NEW YORK - Castle Garden served as a reception hall and temporary home of nine million immigrants from it was opened on Aug 1, 1855 to it was closed down on April 18, 1890. From then on the Immigration Processing Centers for New York was at the Barge office and Ellis Island. This story about Castle Garden was printed in The Illustrated American, March 1, 1890.
Offferdahl/Offerdal, Ole Ivarsen
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