I am knew to this geneaolgy thing and am hoping someone will be able to give me information as to who and where my Great grand Parents were. Great Grandpa was Anders Pedar Sorken Born in 1839 at Roros, Noway, and immigrated to USA in 1884 along with Greatgrandma Ingred olson-Howoien and I think 2 children one of whom was my Grandfather Andrew SorkenBorn 1880 in Roros, Norway and settled in the Souix Falls area of South Dakota USA.
According to the Digitalarkivet your great grandparents emigrated from Røros via Trondhjem in 1882. They were heading for Sioux Falls Dakota, and hat ticket prepaid in America:
Anders P. Sorken g Arbeidsm m 43 Ingrid Sorken g Kone k 40 Peter Sorken ug Søn Arbeidsm m 18 Ingeborg Sorken Datr. k 11 Anna Sorken Datr. k 4 Anders Sorken Søn m 0,75 Berta Sorken g Arbeiderske k 17 Jakob Sorken Søn m 0,5
They departed from Trondhjem (now Trondheim) on May 25 aboard the S/S Hero of the Wilson Line. They had tickets to proceed from Britain on one of the Allan Line steamships, that would probably be the S/S Hanoverian from Glasgow arriving to Quebec 1882-06-08 or the S/S Polynesian from Liverpool arriving to Quebec 1882-06-13. It could also have been another ship.
In the 1865 census you can see Anders and Ingrid living with Anders' parents on the farm Sorken
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Posted - 01/08/2003 : 22:32:00
