Knut Aslagsson LAJORD

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer

Notes:

Born nerre Lajord. Gardbruker nigarde Ellingbø.

Rented farmland from Marit Ellingbø. Founding member and chairman of Vang Historielag. Remarkably energetic man with a big smile and outgoing personality. He was one of the last in the community who could speak the Vang dialect. Knut built a new residence on the farm in 1983 and extended the farm road. His gravestone is the reverse side of his grandfather's (Knut Syltevik).

Brad also met with Knut when he was in Norway in 1979 or 1980.

Knut married M.A. WANGENSTEEN [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 Apr 1890, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Born on nerre Lajord. Gardbruker nerre Lajord.

Living on Lajord nedre with his widower father and siblings in the 1900 Norwegian census.

Aslak married Helga Dorthea Knutsdotter SYLTEVIK in 1922 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Helga (daughter of Knud Knudsen SYLTEVIK and Sigrid Endresdotter ELLINGBØE) was born in 1894 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1947 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gardjk. nerre Lajord.

In the 1910 Norwegian census, she is unmarried and living on 33/1 with her mother, brother, and grandmother.

Born on Nigarden, Ellingbø.

Birth:
the 1910 Norwegian census has her DOB as 18 Feb 1894.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Clockmaker and Farmer
• Baptism: 10 Jun 1855, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He or his brother was one of the baptismal sponsors for Ole Ellingboe (#3235). He or his brother also, apparently, made the trip to Vestre Toten to be a sponsor for Thea (#269). Both Ole Aslaksons were baptismal sponsors for Marit Ovesdatter (#258).

Farmed Lajord 51/1 from 1890 to 1925. Built a new out building 1924.

According the 1865 census, Marit and Aslak had two sons named Ole, one born in 1844, one born in 1855. The older one’s occupation, at the time of the 1865 census, was “er hjemme og er Uhrmager.”

In the 1900 Norwegian census, Ole Aslaksson Kvam, a widower born 1855, was living on the Lajord nedre farm in Vang. His occupation was gaardbruger s uhrmager (farmer and watch-maker). Ole’s three children by his first wife, Aslak, Kristoffer, and Marit, were also living with him on the farm. Also living in the household were two servants and the føderaadsmand and føderaadskone, Endre Kristoffesson Lajord, b. 1828, and his wife Guri Torstensdatter, b. 1828. These were the people who had owned the farm previously and who still received a living and the right to live there.

In the 1910 Norwegian census, Ole Aslaksen Kvam still resides on Lajord 51/1 (Nerre-Lajord). The household also includes his 2nd wife, Marit Kristoffersdatter, as well as his five children: Aslak Olsen Lajord, Kristoffer Olsen Lajord, Marit Olsen Lajord, Ole Olsen Lajord, and Torstein Olsen Lajord. The two youngest children were by Marit. The household also includes Guri Torsteinsdatter Lajord, b. 1838.09.09, føderaadskone.

Died:
p. 892

Ole married Ingeborg Kristoffersdatter KVÅLE on 12 Jun 1889 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ingeborg (daughter of Kristoffer Torsteinson KVÅLE and Berit Torsteinsdatter LAJORD) was born in 1860; died on 29 Jun 1897 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; was buried on 6 Jul 1897 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gardkj. nerre Lajord.

Notes:

In the 1886 land register, he is Knud Knudsen, the owner of 33/1 (old 9-18a) of Ellingbø nordre.

The bygdebok calls him Knut Knutsson Syltevik frå Geiranger, Sunnylven.

Knud married Sigrid Endresdotter ELLINGBØE on 4 Jun 1874 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Sigrid (daughter of Endre Anderssen ELLINGBØE and Marit Helgesdotter ELLINGBØE) was born on 5 Aug 1852 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 10 Oct 1951 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was engaged to Ola Andrisson. She inherited the farm (33/1 Nigarden Ellingbø).

In the 1910 Norwegian census, she is a widow and the owner of Ellingbø 33/1. Living with her on 33/1 is her mother Marit, her son Endre, and her daughter Helga.

Birth:
the 1910 Norwegian census says 15 August

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Husmand med Jord, Snedker

Notes:

Of sørre Bunde.

Aslak (paa haugen) Lajord according to Brad's January 7, 1991, letter. In that letter, Brad explains that Aslak came from a farm named Lajord.

For their marriage entry in the parish record, he is Aslag Olsen Qvale. He is also called that on his daughter Marit’s birth record. For his first son’s birth record he is called Aslak Olsen Söndre-Qvauss. For the 1847 Ole and the 1850 Ole and the 1855 Ole, he was Qvam.

At the time of the 1865 census, Marit and Aslak lived on a farm in Vang named Haaugen.

According the 1865 census, Marit and Aslak had two sons named Ole, one born in 1844, one born in 1855. The older one’s occupation, at the time of the 1865 census, was “er hjemme og er Uhrmager.”

In his letter back to Valdres in 1896, Ove says that Ole died (apparently in the late 1880s or early 1890s) childless.

Åslag married Marit Olsdatter ELLINGBØE KVAM on 9 Jun 1842 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Marit (daughter of Ola Torleivsson ELLINGBØE and Ågot Helgesdotter ELLINGBØE) was born on 19 Aug 1817 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 19 Dec 1902 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; was buried on 3 Jan 1903 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 24 Sep 1831, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Ove Oveson's letter in 1896 suggests that Marit was still alive at that time but that half-brother Ole had died, childless.

Moved to Haugen, Kvam, after marriage to Aslak Kvåle.

Marit and her two sons named Ole were witnesses/sponsors at the baptism of her granddaughter Marit Ovesdatter (#258).

In the 1900 Norwegian census, she is Marit Olsdatter Kvam, widow, b. 1817, living with her unmarried daughter Marit Aslaksdatter, b. 1842, on the Haugen farm in Vang. Also living with them is Johannes Gullikson, b. 1837, tjenestgut.

Birth:
the 19 August birthdate is from her confirmation record in the parish record

Died:
Kvamshaugen

Notes:

In the 1865 census, he was Kristoffer Thorstejnson, age 50, gbr on Kvale 32/2.

Birth:
Kvåle 39/1 Nerre

Kristoffer + Berit Torsteinsdatter LAJORD. Berit (daughter of Torstein Torsteinsen LAJORD and Ingebjørg Thomasdatter NETRØST) was born in 1829 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1912. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Lajord 51/2 Øvre

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 17 Sep 1837, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Of Ellingbø 33/1.

Gaardbruger Selveier on Ellingbø nordre in the 1865 census.

Birth:
from confirmation record, birth record missing from Digitalarkivet parish registers; Jim shows 5 Aug 1822

Died:
per Jim’s site; Norway Burial Index agrees

Endre married Marit Helgesdotter ELLINGBØE on 31 Oct 1843 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Marit (daughter of Helge Helgesson ELLINGBØE and Guri Torleivsdotter ELLINGBØE) was born on 1 Jan 1826 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 5 Sep 1916 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1910 Norwegian census, she is living on 33/1 with her daughter Sigrid and two of Sigrid’s children.

Died:
Norway Burial Index says 5 Feb 1916.