Sigrid M (Sadie) DIGENE

Notes:

She arrived in the port of New York on 1 June 1892 aboard the Teutonic as 18 year-old Sigrid M Digen, unfortunately shown on the ship’s manifest as a male.

Not listed in the index of deaths in Washington. Either did not die in Washington or else died before 1940.

In the 1910 census, she is shown as having had six children, all six still alive.

Came to this country in 1892 according to the 1920 census. Naturalized as a citizen in 1909.

Sigrid married Christen Olson EIDAL about 1893. Christen was born about 1864 in Eidal, Buskerud, Norway; died on 14 Apr 1949 in Seattle, King County, Washington; was buried in IOOF Cemetery, Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elmer Oliver EIDAL was born on 12 Mar 1894 in Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington; died on 24 Apr 1953 in Seattle, King County, Washington; was buried in IOOF Cemetery, Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington.
2. Otto Clarence EIDAL was born on 10 May 1895 in Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington; died on 29 Jan 1956; was buried in IOOF Cemetery, Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington.
3. Elna Margaret EIDAL was born on 10 Nov 1896 in Kittitas County, Washington; died on 17 Oct 1959 in Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington; was buried in IOOF Cemetery, Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington.
4. Sarah Elizabeth EIDAL was born on 22 Jan 1900 in Washington; died on 19 Oct 1987 in Multnomah County, Oregon.
5. Marie Geneva EIDAL was born on 22 Apr 1904 in Washington; died on 9 Sep 1987 in Seattle, King County, Washington.
6. Leroy (Roy) Martin EIDAL was born on 16 Oct 1905 in Washington; died on 8 Feb 1974 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Oct 1835, Hedalen, Sør-Aurdal, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Residence in 1865: Digene Gård, Hedalen Parish, Søndre Aurdal, Oppland, Norway. In that census, the household consists of Mikkel, 30, Marit, 20, Siri, 2, Gudbrand Halsstinsøn, 60, Sigrid Mikkelsdatter, 62, and Abraham Gudbransøn, 22, shoemaker. Everyone was born in Søndre Aurdals.

In the 1900 census, the family was on Dikjene farm in Søndre Aurdals. The household consisted of Mikkel Gudbrandsen, b. 1835, jordbruger, Marit Eriksdr, b. 1845, Gudbrand Mikkelsen, tømmerkjører and jordarbeider (carpenter and farm laborer), b. 1876, Erik Mikkelsen, tømmerhugger, b. 1883, Anne Maria, budeie (milkmaid), b. 1886, and Martin Johnsen, dattersøn, b. 1891.

Called Mikke Nerbye Gulbrandsen Digene in the Norway Burial Index.

Mikkel married Marit Eriksdatter DAHLEN on 24 Sep 1864 in Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Marit (daughter of Erik Narveson DAHLEN and Siri Arnesdatter KVÅLSHAGEN) was born on 6 Nov 1845 in Bagn, Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 3 Jan 1933 in Hedalen, Sør-Aurdal, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 23 Nov 1845, Bagn, Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Rose said that Julia’s mother came from Bang and she was right. (Also spelled Bagn, apparently.)

Died:
Died at 5:30 AM

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Married:
ages 29 and 17 in parish record entry

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Not listed in the 1801 census. Shown as age 60 in the 1865 census, at which time he and his wife were living on Digene with Mikkel and his family and Abraham.

Shown as age 26 in his marriage record.

Birth:
may be date of baptism

Gudbrand married Sigrid Mikkelsdatter BRATTERUD on 13 Oct 1833 in Hedalen, Sør-Aurdal, Oppland, Norway. Sigrid (daughter of Mikjel Haraldson BRATTRUD and Rangdi Knudsdatter SKINNRUD) was born on 17 Feb 1804 in Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 21 Apr 1893 in Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is called Sigrid Mikkelsdatter Neerbÿe in Mikkel’s birth record.

Shown as age 62 in the 1865 census.

Shown as age 29 in her marriage record.

Notes:

In the 1865 Norwegian census, he was Erik Navessen, 67, føderaadsmand, living with his wife, children, and grandchildren on a Sørfladdahl farm in Bagn, Søndre Aurdal. The gaardbruker of the farm was Erik’s son, Narve, 41. Others of the senior Erik’s children living in the farm were Erik Erikssen, 14, and Tora Eriksdatter, 23.

Erik married Siri Arnesdatter KVÅLSHAGEN on 12 Jul 1825 in Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Siri (daughter of Arne Olson NAVRUD and Guri Halsteinsdatter FRAMGARDEN) was born in 1803 in Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1874 in Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In the 1801 census as Halsten Aberhamsen, 24, living with his wife and two children on the Øverbye farm, Hedahlen parish, Ourdahl, Oppland.

Halstein married Marit Gulbrandsdatter SORUM in 1795 in Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Marit (daughter of Gulbrand Hanson SORUM and Lisbet Gulbrandsdatter) was born on 29 Sep 1776 in Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1839 in Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As Mekel Haraldsen in the 1801 census, he was a gbr on Braterud. He was 42 years old, his wife Randj Knudsdatter was 25, and they had on child, Anne Mekelsdatter, age 2. Also in their household was Sofie Andersdatter, 22, a maid, and Anne Mekelsdatter, Mekel’s widowed mother, age 77.

There was another Mekel Haroldsen living on Braterud in the 1801 census. He was age 52 and his wife was the 42 year-old Kirsti Syversdatter. _That_ Mekel had a 6 year-old son Harold Mekelsen. Could Harald T have had two sons named Mekel?? Julia Duraso’s Field/Anderson Family Tree says that he did! (The mother of Harald T’s wife, Anne Mikjelsdatter, was Dorte Mikkelsdatter.)

Mikjel married Rangdi Knudsdatter SKINNRUD in 1794 in Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Rangdi (daughter of Knud Tidemanson REVLING and Marit Olsdatter STAVEDALEN) was born on 2 May 1776 in Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1838 in Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1801 census, he was a husmann on the Dølven farm in Hedalen, Ourdahl. He was shown as age 44, his wife as age 41; it was the first marriage for each of them.

Narve married Anne Øysteinsdatter HESTHAGIN on 6 Apr 1787 in Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Anne (daughter of Øystein Olsen HESTHAGIN) was born in 1760. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Y

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Married:
Bang according to cswader1

Notes:

Surname suffix KvÂl Framgarden sometimes added.

In the 1801 census, he and Guri and their family lived on Kwæll in Reenlie, Ourdahl (Nord-Aurdal).

Arne married Guri Halsteinsdatter FRAMGARDEN in 1791 in Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Guri (daughter of Halstein Pålson FRAMGARDEN and Siri Olsdatter LEISTRUD, Erstad) was born on 1 Jan 1766 in Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1837 in Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]