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Berit (Bertha) Ivarsdatter ELLINGBØ

Female 1881 - 1964  (82 years)


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  • Name Berit (Bertha) Ivarsdatter ELLINGBØ 
    Birth 3 Oct 1881  Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    MN Death Cert Checked
    Minnesota Death Certificate 1964-MN-007546 
    Death 8 Aug 1964  Hennepin County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • at Crystal Lake Rest Home in Robbinsdale
    Burial 11 Aug 1964  Glen Haven Memorial Garden, Crystal, Hennepin County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Born on Ellingbø Bøkko 33/3 according to Trudy.

      She arrived in New York on May 31, 1907, aboard the S.S. Oceanic which had departed Liverpool on May 22, 1907. She was a maid destined for Milaca, home of her brother, Knut Ivarsen Ellingbö, who had paid for her ticket to the U.S. She was in good health, 5 feet 2.5 inches tall, with blonde complexion, blue eyes, and brown hair. She was travelling with her distant cousin, Kristoffer Ellingbö, brother of Jøger Ellingboe.

      She and Anna were living at 2408 24th Avenue in south Minneapolis at the time of the 1920 census. Bertha was a hairdresser in a beauty parlor. Bertha came to the U.S. in 1907.

      In the 1930 census, Bertha was living in an apartment on Spruce Avenue in Minneapolis with her daughter and her daughter’s two children. Bertha is a hairdresser in a “hair shop.”



      In the 1940 census, Bertha Steile, a 58 year-old widow, lived at 2325 Washington Avenue N in the same rented apartment that she lived in in 1935. She was irregularly employed as a handicraft worker for a WPA sewing project.

      Bertha died as the widow of John Steile. She died of uremia at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ann Stanley, 4501 Adair Avenue North. Her obit said that she had 5 grandsons and 18 great-grandchildren.
    Person ID I9194  Don Carlson's Tree
    Last Modified 28 Aug 2018 

    Father Ivar Knutsson ELLINGBØ,   b. 8 Jul 1848, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Mar 1921, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Mother Berit Olsdatter ELLINGBØ,   b. 3 Nov 1844, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Apr 1931, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Marriage 13 Jun 1872  Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6882  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family John Ovesson STEILE,   b. 16 Mar 1883, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 May 1914, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 31 years) 
    Marriage 4 Dec 1908  Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Zion Lutheran, witnesses Mr. and Mrs. Theodor Fossum
    Children 
     1. Anna Bergitte STEILE,   b. 3 May 1909, St. Louis County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Mar 1978, Hennepin County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
    Family ID F6900  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 Sep 2015