Stella Mabel ELLESTAD

Stella married Ole E STEE on 13 Dec 1912 in Todd County, Minnesota. Ole was born on 14 Dec 1888; died on 3 May 1977 in Anoka County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1931-MN-015166
• Occupation: Farmer, Carpenter
• Baptism: 28 Jul 1861, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
• Confirmation: 18 Jun 1876, Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He is the “Andrew Ellestad” who Rose refers to in her interview with Evey in the early 1970s. Andrew went to South Dakota with Erick Thompson and Tom Thompson in the mid 1880s. Later Andrew went to Clarissa and was probably the reason that Erick Thompson and family moved to Clarissa.

Rose maintained that her uncle Tom Thompson and Tom’s wife Rangdi Ellestad (Andrew Ellestad’s sister) were 2nd cousins. _That_ implies that either Anne Endrisdatter Baggethun or Ole Vilhelmsen Ellestad were first cousins of Andrew Thompson or Rangdi Kvale. None of that is true.

He is the 69 year-old Endrew Ellestad, husband of Sigrid, father of Evelyn and Clara, living in Clarissa, Todd County, Minnesota, in the 1930 census. He was born in Norway and came to the U.S. in 1882. Endrew was a dairy farmer.

He is the 58 year-old E. O. Ellestad, a carpenter in the village of Clarissa in the 1920 census. He came to the U.S. in 1885.

In the 1910 census, he is a widower in Todd County. His three children are liing with him.

In the 1900 census, he is probably Andrew Ellested living in Ward Twp, Todd County, born Mar 1861 in Norway. He is the husband of Ingebor and the father of Stella, John, and Cora. He came to the U.S. in 1883.

In the 1895 state census, he is living in Eureka Twp, Dakota County. The household consists of Andrew, 33, Ingebor M., 25, Estella, 4, John O., 2, and Cora, 6 months.

The informant for his death certificate was William Duda of Clarissa. (The Dudas lived one farm away from Endre and Ole in the 1910 census. William was 14 years old.) Endre had been in the U.S. for 38 years.

Endre died of stomach cancer.

Endre Olsen was confirmed in Vestre Slidre on 18 Jun 1876. The entry in church book says he was born on 14 Mar 1861, baptized on 28 Jul and there are some other notations that I don’t understand. His farm name is Bagetun Vang Ellestad and his parents were Ole Vilhelmson and Anne Endresdatter.

Sponsors for his baptism were Randi Wilhelmsdatter Lund, Gunhild Andersdatter Ellingboe, Sigrid Jørgensdatter Ellingboe, Endre Johnson Bagethun, and John Endressen Bagethun.

The 42 year-old widower Endre Olsen Ellestad of Clarissa, Minnesota, entered the U.S. at New York aboard the S.S. Celtic on 25 April 1903 following a ten-day voyage from Liverpool. He was still a citizen of Norway. Traveling with him was his brother Ole and their nephew, 22 year-old Ole Knudsen Ellestad of Vestre Slidre.

Endre married Ingeborg Marie MOSCOWS about 1890. Ingeborg was born on 21 Aug 1870 in Minnesota; died on 23 Nov 1900; was buried in Bethel Cemetery, Browerville, Todd County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Maiden name spelled Moskau in Cora’s death certificate.

In the 1900 census, she had had 4 children, 3 still living.

Her death is not listed in the index of Minnesota deaths which begins in 1904.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Nov 1827, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
• Confirmation: 30 Jul 1843, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He is Ola Vilhjølmson Lund, I8745, in Jim’s VS.

He was gaardbruger selveier on the Faarhaugene farm 26a in Vestre Slidre in the 1865 census.

Shown as of the Veblen farm in Vang when his daughter Randi was born.

There was also an Ole Vilhelmson Lund born 12 January, baptized 18 Jan 1826. His parents were Vilhelm Olsen and Anne Olsdatter. He was confirmed on 28 Jun 1840.

In the 1900 Norwegian census, Ole and Anne lived on the Ellestad 23/4 farm in Vestre Slidre with their son Jon Olssen Ellestad, b. 1870 in Vestre Slidre, and, apparently, their grandson Ole Knutssen Ellestad, b. 1881 in Vestre Slidre.

Ole married Anne Endrisdatter BAGGETHUN. Anne (daughter of Endre Johnson ELLINGBØ and Margrethe Thomasdatter) was born on 14 Apr 1829 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 20 Apr 1829, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
• Confirmation: 30 Jul 1843, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

An Anne Endresdatter Baggethun was born 14 Apr and baptized 20 Apr 1829. Her parents were Endre Johnson and Margrethe Thomasdatter. Anne was confirmed on 30 Jul 1843.

Notes:

Vang A, p. 556.

Husmann on Nedre Lund 32/8.

He was husmand med jord on the Lund farm in Vang in the 1865 census. Living with him were his wife Anne Olsdatter, their son Ole Wilhelmson, 40, and their daughter Berit Wilhelmsdatter, 30, both unmarried. Also living on the farm was Jøger Jøgerson, 35, and his wife Rangdi Wilhelmsdatter, 36, and their 5 children. Jøger was hjælper med pladsen.

Vilhelm married Anne Olsdatter SYNDROL. Anne (daughter of Ola Johannessen BØE and Dorte Knutsdatter SYNDROL) was born about 1795 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died after 1865 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Syndrol 48/1

Notes:

He was a husmand med jord on the Bakken 1 farm in the 1865 census in Vang. Living with him and Margrethe were their son John, their daughter Rangdi, and a foster datter, 10 year-old Magrethe Olsdatter.

The only Endre born in Vang in 1800 or 1801 was Endre, born as illegitimate on 22 Jun to Endre Johanssen and Guri Andfinsdatter of Oldre.

In his VS, Jim calls him Endre Jonson Heensåsen, 1799-1871, I8746. The bygdebok, p. 619, has him as a husmann on Bakkin, apparently a subfarm of Bagetun, from 1829.

Jim’s VS notes:

He is often called Ellingbø, why I do not know. Frøholm writes that the father was Jon Andersson and the mother was Randi Gudbrandsdt who was at Dalsøydegarden.

Frøholm skriver om Bakkin under Baggetun: "Bakkin var den største husmannsplassen under Baggetun, etter Grøv. han låg 200 meter sør for garden, beint mot nord for Grøv. etter festesetelen av 24.6.1829 låg plassen under og opp i Grøvsjordet, og skulle elles ha til forland Rødningen ovafor Grrøvsjordet, vesle Myrslætet oppi li'n og nørdre Stakkstømyridn, to stakksøer i Helevøndale under Langolshøvdo, stølsrettar, rett til 8 hestelass med rå bjørkeved i skogen og raskved av vier o.a. Husmannen skulle svare 4 spd og slå m.a. løoenga Tobakkslætet og skjere eit mål korn når bonden kravde det. Lenge fødde dei ikring 2 kyr, men i 1875 var det 1 hest, 6 kyr, 3 ungdyr, 7 sauer og lam og 1 gris på Bakka. Men vel halvparten av dette fall på Jon Endresen ( sønnen til Endre, HB's anm), som kjøpte Haugo av Ellingbø og dreiv Haugo frå Bakka, slik at han hadde heile buskapen her på Bakka.

Birth:
Heensåsen under 70/1

Endre married Margrethe Thomasdatter in 1830 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Margrethe (daughter of Thomas Madsen HAUGEN and Dordi Nilsdatter GRØV) was born about 1801 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jim calls her Margrete Thomasdatter (Kvåle) Haugen, 1802-1890, I8742.