James Frederick FLATEN

Notes:

He was the informant for his mother’s death certificate. At that time he lived at 2601 Hayes Drive in Burnsville.

Died:
last residence Burnsville

James married Shirley Elaine MOE on 1 Jul 1951 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Minnehaha Lutheran

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1960-MN-025633

Notes:

Living with his mother in the 1905 state census.

In the 1910 census he is living in Minneapolis with his sister Nellie Pedersen and her family. He is a clerk in a butcher shop.

He registered for the draft in Minneapolis on June 5, 1917. At that time he lived at 2411 11th Avenue South in Minneapolis. He was self-employed with a grocery business at 910 East 24th Street. He was married with a wife and child and claimed their dependancy as grounds for exemption from the draft. He was tall and slender with blue eyes and light hair.

In the 1930 census, he and his family live at 4101 41st Avenue South in Minneapolis. He has a grocery store.

In 1937, he was licensed to sell “lunch, groceries, soft drinks and confectionery” at 2507 East 38th Street in Minneapolis.

In the 1940 census, he and his wife and four children still lived at 4101 41st Avenue in south Minneapolis. He was a the manager of a confectionery.

He was the informant for his brother Walter’s death certificate. At that time, Nordahl lived at 4101 41st Avenue S.

According to Mark, Nordahl owned the building his store was in and rented out several stores in the building to others.

Birth:
birth location according to his draft registration

Nordahl married Almida Caroline RENNING on 8 Sep 1914 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Almida (daughter of Conrad RENNING and Marie PETERSON) was born on 25 Mar 1896 in Minnesota; died on 11 Jan 1980 in Scott County, Minnesota; was buried on 14 Jan 1980 in Hillside Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1980-MN-001544

Notes:

The informant for her death certificate was her son James. She died of a stroke.

Died:
Friendship Manor in Shakopee

Notes:

Married:
as Nordahl Flaten and Clauida Rennirg

Notes:

He is Torstein Nilsen Flaten, I7030, in Jim’s VS.

He is the Tosten, son of Nels Christopherson and Berith Tostensdatter “Böesjet” born in Vang on 13 Nov 1848 and baptized on 31 Dec 1848.

In the 1880 census he was Torstein (”Sorstein”) Flaten or Flaton, 31, living in Minneapolis (”Lower Levee”) with his wife Rangdi, 23, and their three daughters Bertha, 5, Margaret, 2, and Annie, 4 months (born in January). Torstein is a carpenter.

He is shown in the 1885 state census as T. N. Flaten, living in Minneapolis. The household is himself, 35, “Maude”, 30, Bertie, 10, Dorothea, 8, Nellie, 5, and Nels, 2.

The 1895 census showed that he had been in Minnesota for 26 years which would be consistent with him and Randi emigrating in 1869. Tosten was a dairyman and he and his family lived at 1604 East Lake Street. The household consisted of himself, 47, Randa, 40, Bertha, 20, Margarite, 18, Nellie, 15, Balder, 7, Nordie, 7, Walter, 5, and Mable, 2.

Birth:
Bøflaten under Bø 25/ Nilsgården

Tosten married Randi SÖNDROL on 25 Dec 1873 in Rice County, Minnesota. Randi (daughter of Torstein Olsson SÖNDROL and Ragndi Olsdotter ELLINGBØE) was born on 10 Jul 1854 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 12 Apr 1909 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1909-MN-015987
• Baptism: 8 Oct 1854, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She is Randi Torsteinsdatter Syndrol, I7080, in Jim’s VS.

Her family farm name was called Sönderold in her birth record.

In the 1865 Norwegian census, she is 12 years old and living with her parents and siblings on Søndrohl, mitre, in Vang.

This Randi is the Rangdi Søndvol to whom Ove Ovesen Ellingbø refers in his 1896 letter to his mother. According to Trudy: “She first married Torstein Flaten from Bøaflatadn in Vang. They lived in Minneapolis until Torstein died in 1895. She took the children back to Norway for a few months and then went back to Minnesota, settling in Sunburg where she married Torstein Hollen, born in Hoverstad 63 in Vang. He was a widower with children. They had 2 children. She died in Minneapolis in 1909 and he died in Sunburg in 1930. I don't know if they stayed married or not.”

Called “Maude” in the 1885 state census.

In the 1895 Minnesota census, she (Randa) and her family lived at 1604 E. Lake Street in Minneapolis. Tosten, 47, was a “dairyman.”

In the 1900 federal census, she and her second husband, Thosten Hollen, and her and their children lived in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County. Randi came to the U.S. in 1869 and Thosten in 1866. Randi had had 10 children, 9 still living. The children from her first marriage that were living with her were Baldor, 14 (b. Feb 1886), Nordal, 12 (b. Jan 1888), and Walter, 9 (b. July 1890).

In the 1905 state census, Tosten and his and her children still lived in Kerkhoven. Rangdy, however, along with four of her children from her first marriage were living separately on a farm in Murdock, Kerkhoven Twp. Rangdy and her children are listed with the last name Flattan. Those children are: Baldor, 19, Nordahl, 17, Valtor, 14, and Meble, 12. They live next door to Ole and Sigre Ellestad (#1953 and #1956).

She is Ronda Flaten on her death certificate. In that certificate, she is identified as a widow living at 2011 2-1/2 Street in Minneapolis. She married at 19 and had 10 children, 8 of whom were still alive at her death. No informant is named on her death certificate. She died of pulmonary tuberculosis which she had had for “8 or 10 years.” Her father was Thosten Sondrol and her mother was unknown. She was buried at “Layman’s.”

Birth:
9 July 1855 on her death certificate

Notes:

Married:
as F N Flatene and Rangde Tostenson Sondrol

Conrad + Marie PETERSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In Jim’s VS, he is Nils Kristoffersen Berge, I553.

Jim’s notes:

Han drev husmannsplassen Nilsegården eller Bøaflaten. Berit og Nils hadde barna: Ove (1839-) som kjøpte Sælid VS i 1897, han hadde sønnen Jørgen, med Marit Flaten. Ola tvillingen til Ove, var murer og en tid på Kjelvo under Stele, Kristoffer (1842 - ) til USA, Torstein (1848- ) gm Randi Syndrol, til USA, Maren 1853-død ung, Ingeleiv, drev husmannsplassen etter at broren kjøpte Sælid, så til ØS, Ingebjørg (1859-) død etter operasjon på Riks- hospitalet i Oslo.

Birth:
Berge 22/

Nils married Berit Torsteinsdatter KVAM in 1838. Berit (daughter of Torstein Olsen Leirol KVAM and Ingelev Ovesdatter KVAM) was born in 1814 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Kvam 53/ Sløtet

Notes:

Of Syndrol 48/1 according to Trudy.

In the 1865 Norwegian census he was Thorstajn Olsson, 51, living with his family on Søndrohl, mitre, in Vang. He had two sons named Ole.

Birth:
Syndrol 48/1

Died:
the date on his gravestone

Torstein married Ragndi Olsdotter ELLINGBØE on 25 Jun 1846 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ragndi (daughter of Ola Torleivsson ELLINGBØE and Ågot Helgesdotter ELLINGBØE) was born on 6 Jul 1826 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 10 Apr 1898 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Of Ellingbø Skøre 34/1 according to Trudy.

Died:
Nerre Søndrol