Russell Elsmore RUDNINGEN

Russell married L.K. DOESKEN [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ingmar married Ida C HOLLEN. Ida (daughter of Christopher HOLLEN and Berith Jacobsdatter KATTEVOLD) was born on 6 Apr 1904 in Sunburg, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota; died on 19 Mar 1990 in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not listed in the death index.

Ingebret married Betsey STOUTLAND. Betsey was born on 1 Nov 1867 in Nicollet County, Minnesota; died on 27 Dec 1956 in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 29 Apr 1855, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
• Confirmation: 12 Jun 1870, Goodhue County, Minnesota

Notes:

He and his family lived in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County, in the 1900 census. The census-taker was Ole O Ellingboe, (I5122).

A Christopher Hollen, purportedly born 31 Jan 1856 (according to his gravestone), is buried in the West Norway Lake cemetery. He died 6 Aug 1916.

In the 1910 census, he is C E Hollen, age 55, a farmer in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County, Minnesota. He owns his farm, albeit with a mortgage. He came to the U.S. in 1866.

Birth:
_Many_ sources incorrectly show his birthdate as 31 Jan 1856.

Confirmation:
Holden

Christopher married Berith Jacobsdatter KATTEVOLD in 1880. Berith (daughter of Jacob Olsen HAMRE and Randi Erichsdatter KATTEVOLD) was born on 1 Dec 1861 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 12 Jul 1910 in Swift County, Minnesota; was buried in West Norway Lake Lutheran Cemetery, Sunburg, Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 15 Dec 1861, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Berith is mentioned on p. 104 of the Vang B bygdebok but she is erroneously referred to there as “Randi.” The bygdebok identifies her mother as Randi Eiriksdotter Kattevøl.

In the 1880 U.S. census, she is Berit Pedersen, daughter of A. Pederson and his wife Randi of Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County. The rest of the children shown for that family are quite a bit younger although there is a daughter Kersti, age 10 (so born in 1869 or 1870) born in Norway. That implies that A. Pederson and Randi were together in Norway before coming to the U.S. in about 1870. Their 10-year-old son, Gustav, was born in Minnesota.

In the 1910 census, she is 48 years old, has been married for 29 years, and has had 15 children, 14 of whom are still living, and 13 of whom are still living at home. She came to the U.S. in 1872.

Notes:

From Rice County Families, published in 1981 (via Dalby):

Rudningen Family. 

Ole Rudningen and his wife, Gunhild, came from Halengdal, Norway, in about 1853 and settled in Beloit, Wisconsin, for a short time. In the spring of 1855 they started their journey to Minnesota in a covered wagon. Gunhild chased their cattle on foot to their new home, a 160-acre farm in Wheeling Township, 2 miles north of Nerstrand. They had 4 sons:  Ole, Sever, Andrew and Adolph, and a daughter, Anna. The children all grew up on this farm and then Ole, Adolph, and Anna moved to Sunburg in western Minnesota.

Sever stayed on the home place and Andrew homesteaded on 80-acre farm in Wheeling Township, Section #5, and later bought the adjoining 80 acres. On March 7, 1885, Andrew married Anna Hanson and they have 2 sons, Sigvard and John. When Andrew started to farm, all he had was a team of horses, 4 cows, and a few pieces of machinery. One morning 5 horse-back riders rode into Andrew’s yard and watered their horses in the creek; they talked to Andrew for awhile and then left. A couple of days later, Andrew learned that the First National Bank in Northfield had been robbed and that the 5 men he had talked to were Jesse James and his gang.

Sigvard and John farmed with their dad until Sigvard married Mary Vesledahl and moved to the old home place and farmed with his Uncle Sever until Sigvard died in 1916. John married Theresa Severson, daughter of John and Anna Quie Severson, on March 9, 1927, and they had 1 son, Arnold. John farmed with his dad until 1940 when Andrew died; then he farmed with his son, and all during World War II they sawed lumber for the government. On June 28, 1952, Arnold married Ramond Eisen and in 1953 left the farm.  John continued to farm until 1966 when he passed away; Theresa stayed on the farm until 1969 when it was sold. Theresa died in May of 1980. Arnold is in his 26th year at the Owatonna Tool Company and he and Ramona live on a 40-acre farm in Walcott Township. They have 3 children: Mrs. Alan (Lynne) Minske, Mrs. David (Julie) Kobliska and John William (Bill), and 2 grandchildren--Jason William and Brianna Lynne Minske.

Ole married Gunhild Andersdatter. Gunhild was born in 1834 in Norway; died on 23 Apr 1909 in Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From the Rice County Journal, 28 April 1909, via Dalby:

On Friday last, April 23, wood place in a kitchen oven to dry was left so long that it became ignited. When Mrs. Gunhild Rudningen, 75 years old and residing on a farm near Nerstrand, opened the oven door and admitted the air, the flames darted forth setting fire to her clothes and enveloping her whole body, causing burns from which she died. Mrs. Rudningen was alone in the house at the time but her cries brought the neighbors. When help reached her, however, she was found dead from burns and shock.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Mar 1804, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Even and Ragndi were first cousins.

He is not in either of Jim’s databases.

He was a soldier in Norway. He was the heir to his father’s plass in Høllen on Høverstad.

He and Anne were living on Høllen in the 1865 census with their children Sigri, age 19, Anne, age 17, Kristofer, age 12, and Ingri, age 7.

The records of the Norway Lake Lutheran churches have this entry for Even: “Even H. Hollen, born in Balders, married with Anna Tostenson, born in Balders. To Goodhue County 1866.”

In the 1870 census, he and his family lived in Warsaw Twp, Goodhue County, Minnesota. The household consisted of Even Helgeson, 67, Anna, 49, Christopher, 15, Even, 8, and Ida, 11.

In the 1880 census, he was Even Helgerson, now living with his family in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County. His household consisted of Even, 77, Anne, 60, Anne, 29, Christ, 24, Even, 17, and a 9 year-old adopted daughter named Maria Olson. Maria had been born in Minnesota and her father in Norway. Everyone else in the household had been born in Norway.

He was 91 year-old Even Hollen, living with his son Even in Kerkhoven Twp, in the 1895 Minnesota state census.

Birth:
or very early 1804; Find A Grave says November 1803

Baptism:
WIlhelm Wilhelmsen Baggethun (#4790) was one of his sponsors

Died:
Find A Grave, from photo of his gravestone

Buried:
as Even H Hollen

Even married Anne Tostensdatter VØVLISEIGA on 11 Oct 1842 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Anne (daughter of Tosten Pedersen QVIEM and Ingri Jensdatter KVIESMOEN) was born in Nov 1820 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 13 Oct 1913 in Swift County, Minnesota; was buried in West Norway Lake Lutheran Cemetery, Sunburg, Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 17 Dec 1820, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She is not in either of Jim’s databases.

Born Anne Tostensdatter Qviem. Married as Anne Tostensdatter Veflenseiet.

In the 1900 census, she was Anne Hallen, a 79 year-old widow living in Kerkhoven Twp with her son Even Hallen and his family. The census did not include how many children she had had or how many were living.

In the 1905 state census, she was 84 year-old Annie Halen, living with her son Even and his family in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County.

Birth:
FInd A Grave says Nov 29

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Dec 1839, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He is I4561 in Jim’s VS.

He later married Marit Andrisdatter Stele in 1866 when he became gaardbrukar on Hamre 59/1 Nerre Nordigarden.

Jacob married Randi Erichsdatter KATTEVOLD. Randi (daughter of Erich Christophersen KVÅLE and Kjersti Endresdatter KATTEVOLD) was born on 31 Oct 1838 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1905 in Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Dec 1838, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She is I8781 in Jim’s VS.

Although she is illegitimate, her parents later married.

Anders Olsen Kattevold was her “responsible person” or principal sponsor at her baptism. That Andris (I1993 in Jim’s VS) was gaardbrukar of Kattevold 45/ Øvre at the time of Randi Erichdatter’s birth. Other baptismal sponsors listed for Randi were: Niels Nielsen Böe, Christopher Tostensen Kattevold, Margrethe Christopherdatter Kattevold, and Anne Johannesdatter Böe.

There was no other Randi Eriksdatter shown as born in Vang around 1838. Randi’s parents, Erich Christopherssen Qvale, age 36, and the maiden Kjersti Endresdatter Kattevold, age 26, later married in Vang on 7 Jun 1842. For this marriage his father was Christopher Tostenson and her father was Endre Thronsen.

Quite incorrectly, Jim’s VS shows this Randi marrying Andris Thomassen Høyne, b. 1830, and having four children with him between 1857 and 1862 in Vestre Slidre.

In the 1865 Norwegian census, Rangdi Eriksdatter, age 28, seamstress, and her daughter Berit Jakopsdatter, age 5, both born in Vang, were lodgers on the Anders Olsen farm on Søndrebøe østre 37/ in the Hoved Sogn subparish in the Vang parish.