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AntonH
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AntonH
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AntonH
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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 Posted - 25/06/2022 : 22:57:49
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Inga Rostad and two children emigration in 1903 to Canada
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Inga Rostad
in the UK and Ireland, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960
Name: Inga Rostad
Gender: Female
Departure Age: 24
Birth Date: abt 1879
Departure Date: 29 Oct 1903
Departure Port: England
Ship Name: Tunisian
Shipping Line: Allan Line
Search Ship Database: Search for the Tunisian in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Destination Port: Quebec, Canada
Master: A H Vipond |
Edited by - AntonH on 25/06/2022 22:58:37 |
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 25/06/2022 : 23:01:47
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Inga Rostad
in the Canada, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1865-1935
Name: Inga Rostad
Gender: Female
Arrival Age: 14
Birth Year: abt 1889
Departure Port: Liverpool, England
Arrival Date: 7 Nov 1903
Arrival Port: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Vessel: Tunisian
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AntonH
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TWheeler
Starting member
Canada
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Posted - 26/06/2022 : 05:11:40
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Thank you all so much for all this research and information! I am so grateful for all of your hard work. My sheepish apologies for getting the date of Jens' death wrong (my bad memory). I had located some of these Ole Evensens but had no idea how to connect the dots. Ole Evensen Rofstad seems like a very promising lead given the occupation!
I wasn't aware that Jens was illegitimate, but the family story was that he was sent south to work (I now wonder if for military school) at 14. I'm guessing Jens always lived with his maternal family and perhaps my great great great grandmother did get Ole's last name wrong (she is a bit of an enigma to me because if I was reading records correctly it looked like she only married once at the age of 59. Very curious about her life). I had never heard of Jens having any other family, and it's fascinating to think his father may have immigrated just down to the South of where he did, and we have some distant relations there. |
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
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ToreL
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Norway
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Posted - 28/06/2022 : 21:58:40
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Here is a clipping from volume 2 of Melhusboka. In contradiction with what the above census says, it tells that Gunhild Johansdatter and Even Larsen in fact had two sons; Ola/Ole and then Lars, born in 1847 and died young. According to the book, Even Larsen's father Lars Nilsen had moved in from another area. Tracing his ancestry would probably be quite tricky.
The book also reports on Ole Evensen Rofstad's son of 1877, but says nothing of any son born in 1876. (But one wouldn't expect the author to study church books for locations three or four hundred kms further North.) |
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TWheeler
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Posted - 29/06/2022 : 03:40:43
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| I am so fascinated by how mobile all these people seem to have been. Was this common at the time? Again, thank you ToreL, AntonH and jkmarler, I am so amazed by everything you are finding. This is really extraordinary. |
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
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Posted - 29/06/2022 : 17:18:35
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| Using a small sample size of one. In my family the answer would be not not until the 1800's. Before the 1800's you could usually find the family members living in the same parish for many many years. Then I imagine the population growth in Norway and the lack of any new land to farm caused a lot of movement. |
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
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Posted - 29/06/2022 : 21:44:55
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The overall historic push west in America has been divided this way: The first 200 years after colonization by white Europeans saw the wild boundaries up to the Appalachian mountains. The next 100 years saw the spread of settlers over the whole rest of contiguous US to the Pacific Ocean largely due to railroads and canals, i.e. technology.
One of my great grandfathers was born in western Illinois in 1878. He died on the west coast in Washington in 1947, one generation. It was 4 generations before him to get the family from Massachusetts to western Illinois. |
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
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Posted - 29/06/2022 : 22:35:57
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TWheeler, you did not say in your question if the mobility was for the people in Norway or in America. I answered for Norway and I assume Jackie was answering for America.
Here is some more information on mobility in Norway.
On my grandmothers side one of the oldest know relatives was Knud Ødyne born about 1574 and lived in Grindheim parish, Vest-Agder. The next six generations also lived in Grindheim parish. When my great great grandfather came along in 1811, he was fourth in the line of boys. He moved east to the next County {Fylke} and his grand daughter my grandmother moved to America. |
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