Bertha

1884 -

• Name	Bertha
  Birth	27 Jul 1884	Norway
  Gender	Female
  Notes	According to the 1920 and 1930 censuses, she came to the U.S. in 1911. That was the date she was married. In her passport application, she claimed to have been a resident of the U.S. continuously from 1885 to 1925 and in Portland, Oregon, continuously from 1911 to 1925. She also claimed in her passport application to have emigrated to the U.S. in the last part of June, 1885. {This was when Jøger emigrated, not her.} She was naturalized as a citizen of the U.S. in Northfield and Hennepin County on July 16, 1900. She is the Bertha Ellingbo, of 118 E. 26th Street N., Portland, Oregon, who arrived in New York on August 21, 1925, aboard the S.S. Stavangerfjord which had departed Oslo on August 11th. By her passport application, she was to have departed from New York on the Bergensfjord on April 11th. Her purpose for visiting Norway was to visit her father. An article in the April 29, 1929, edition of The Oregonian lists Mrs. J. T. Ellingbo as a speaker “at the meeting of the women” as part of the three-day convention of the Oregon circuit of the Lutheran church which would meet at the Bethlehem Norwegian Lutheran Church. An article in the December 22, 1929, edition of The Oregonian listed choral singers at various churches. Mrs. J. T. Ellingbo was listed as singing “O Holy Night” at the Bethlehem Norwegian Lutheran Church at 14th between Couch and Davis. There were several articles in The Oregonian in the 1920s in which she was listed as as singing at the church. In one, she was specifically mentioned as Bertha Ellingbo, contralto. A 1921 article refers to her as Bertha Ellingbo, voice student of Ella Hoberg Tripp. She is listed 16 times in the Portland city directory, in all of which she was the spouse of Joger. The earliest listing is 1914, the last is 1931. It’s likely that she is the same person as I16530. A Bertha Ellingboe, b. 27 Jul 1883, made a claim on Social Security on 18 Oct 1948. Her name was clarified as Bertha Ellingboe on 9 Dec 1977. The person closest to the birthdate shown here, for Vang, is Berith Torsteinsdatter Kjørlien, b. 22 Jul 1885. It’s unlikely that she was born in Vang.
  Person ID	I10694	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	28 Dec 2021

  
  

  Family	Jøger T ELLINGBÖ,   b. 9 Aug 1867, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 22 Apr 1943, Multnomah County, Oregon (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	16 Apr 1911	Norway
  	This date according to her passport application; if it’s correct the marriage must have taken place in Norway
  Divorce	Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F3251	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Dec 2021