Margrete Larsdatter WANGENSTEEN

Notes:

Birth:
Stele 21/2, Uppigården

Family/Spouse: Kristoffer Arnfinnsen BERGE. Kristoffer (son of Arnfinn Håvardson BERGE and Ingebjørg Kristoffersdatter BERGE) was born in 1778; died in 1835. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Berge 22/1

Family/Spouse: Øystein Sakariasson ØDEGÅRD. Øystein (son of Sakarias Øysteinson BØ (UPPIGARDEN) and Ingeleiv Bøyesdatter STELE) was born in 1803; died in 1881. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 1825, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Vang A, p. 790. According to the bygdebok, they were going to go to America in 1850, but then it was said that Ragnhild and the children were not going to travel.

Christopher married Ragnild Olsdatter SØRE-BØ in 1834. Ragnild (daughter of Ole Tostensen KJERSTEIN and Kirsti Larsdatter STELE WANGENSTEEN) was born on 10 Jun 1804 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In Jim’s VS, he is Nils Kristoffersen Berge, I553.

Jim’s notes:

Han drev husmannsplassen Nilsegården eller Bøaflaten. Berit og Nils hadde barna: Ove (1839-) som kjøpte Sælid VS i 1897, han hadde sønnen Jørgen, med Marit Flaten. Ola tvillingen til Ove, var murer og en tid på Kjelvo under Stele, Kristoffer (1842 - ) til USA, Torstein (1848- ) gm Randi Syndrol, til USA, Maren 1853-død ung, Ingeleiv, drev husmannsplassen etter at broren kjøpte Sælid, så til ØS, Ingebjørg (1859-) død etter operasjon på Riks- hospitalet i Oslo.

Birth:
Berge 22/

Nils married Berit Torsteinsdatter KVAM in 1838. Berit (daughter of Torstein Olsen Leirol KVAM and Ingelev Ovesdatter KVAM) was born in 1814 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Berge 22/1

Ingebjørg married Ole Jacobsen HAMRE in 1837. Ole (son of Jakob Olson HAMRE and Berit Aslaksdatter BØ) was born in 1811 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1893 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Bøa-Ødegården 27/1

Family/Spouse: Nils Andrisson IGDUN. Nils (son of Andris Nilsen FYGLE and Ingebjørg Helgesdatter IGDUN) was born in 1839; died in 1914. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

dwfrench1

Birth:
nedre Bøe

Family/Spouse: Ingelev Andersdatter TUNE. Ingelev (daughter of Andris Ivarsen TUNE and Berit Nilsdatter WANGENSTEEN) was born on 18 Nov 1830 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1915. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang A, p. 480.

He was huusfar and gbr on Bøe nordre in the 1865 census. The household consisted of Christoffer, b. 1830, Ambjør, b. 1833, their four children Ingeborg, b. 1855, Birte, b. 1859, Ambjør, b. 1863, and Østen, b. 1865, Ambjør’s parents, Aslak, b. 1806, Birte, b. 1807, and the older Ambjør’s siblings, Birte, b. 1836, Nils, b. 1861, and Ingrid, b. 1846 (Aslak Østensen’s daughter with another partner).

Kristopher married Ambjørg Aslaksdatter BÖE ELLINGBØE in 1854. Ambjørg (daughter of Aslak Øysteinsson BØ and Berthe Helgesdatter LEINE) was born in 1832 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Feb 1844, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Birth:
her gravestone says, incorrectly November 23rd

Baptism:
at the home of Johannes Thoresen Bøe

Died:
Clinton Twp

Family/Spouse: Ole Petersen STEEN. Ole was born on 14 Jan 1832 in Buskerud, Norway; died on 3 Feb 1904 in Rock County, Minnesota; was buried in Flowerfield Cemetery, Hills, Rock County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also had a son, Jørgen Ovesen Bø, b. 1858, by Marit Jørnsdatter Flaten.

Ove and Anne moved to Øystre Slidre in 1897 and had three more children there.

Birth:
Bø 25/, Bøflaten under Bø25/1, Uppigarden

Died:
Sælid 25/1

Family/Spouse: Anne Nilsdatter KATTEVOLD. Anne (daughter of Nils Thomasen BØE (KATTEVOLD) and Berit Thomasdatter KVÅLE, HAUGEN) was born in 1859 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1930 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang C, p. 412, calls him Ola Nilsson Bøflaten, a husmann on Kjelvudn under Nedre Stele.

Family/Spouse: Guri Olsdatter KJELVO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is Torstein Nilsen Flaten, I7030, in Jim’s VS.

He is the Tosten, son of Nels Christopherson and Berith Tostensdatter “Böesjet” born in Vang on 13 Nov 1848 and baptized on 31 Dec 1848.

In the 1880 census he was Torstein (”Sorstein”) Flaten or Flaton, 31, living in Minneapolis (”Lower Levee”) with his wife Rangdi, 23, and their three daughters Bertha, 5, Margaret, 2, and Annie, 4 months (born in January). Torstein is a carpenter.

He is shown in the 1885 state census as T. N. Flaten, living in Minneapolis. The household is himself, 35, “Maude”, 30, Bertie, 10, Dorothea, 8, Nellie, 5, and Nels, 2.

The 1895 census showed that he had been in Minnesota for 26 years which would be consistent with him and Randi emigrating in 1869. Tosten was a dairyman and he and his family lived at 1604 East Lake Street. The household consisted of himself, 47, Randa, 40, Bertha, 20, Margarite, 18, Nellie, 15, Balder, 7, Nordie, 7, Walter, 5, and Mable, 2.

Birth:
Bøflaten under Bø 25/ Nilsgården

Tosten married Randi SÖNDROL on 25 Dec 1873 in Rice County, Minnesota. Randi (daughter of Torstein Olsson SÖNDROL and Ragndi Olsdotter ELLINGBØE) was born on 10 Jul 1854 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 12 Apr 1909 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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.

Family/Spouse: 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]

Jacob married Marit Andrisdatter STELE in 1866. Marit (daughter of Anders Andersen STEILE and Marit Gudmundsdatter BØEIGA) was born in 1845 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1900 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He and his wife and three children arrived in the U.S. on August 16, 1919, at the port of New York aboard the Stavangersfjord.

Birth:
Igdun 74/1

Family/Spouse: Genoieva Julie RASMUSSEN. Genoieva (daughter of Sivert Andreas Colbeinsen RASMUSSEN and Martha Lisabeth QUAERNENAES) was born in 1894; died in 1963; was buried in Maynard Lutheran Cemetery, Maynard, Chippewa County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Emma Matilda RASMUSSEN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1900 census, she had had five children, all five still living. She had come to the U.S. in 1891.

Ingebjørg married Gudbrand Kristoffersen HEEN about 1895. Gudbrand (son of Kristoffer Gudbrandsen HEEN and Anne Gunnarsdatter GIVRE) was born on 25 May 1855 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 10 Apr 1931 in Wang Twp, Renville County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Died:
Bøe nedre

Family/Spouse: Marit Andersdatter STEILE. Marit (daughter of Anders Andersen STEILE and Marit Andersdatter KVALE) was born on 2 Mar 1855 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 16 Sep 1924 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

dwfrench1

Birth:
nedre Bøe

Family/Spouse: Olaf Andersen TVEITMOE. Olaf (son of Anders Olsen KAARSTAD and Ingeborg Anfinnsdatter BERGE) was born on 7 Dec 1865 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 19 Mar 1923 in Santa Cruz County, California; was buried in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 May 1862, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He married his first cousin.

Family/Spouse: Ambjørg Christophersdatter BØA-ØYDGAARDEN. Ambjørg (daughter of Kristopher Øysteinsen ØDEGÅRD and Ambjørg Aslaksdatter BÖE ELLINGBØE) was born on 20 Feb 1868 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 5 Feb 1951 in South Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang A, p. 506. Came to the U.S. oin 1891.

Family/Spouse: Knudt Bjørn HIPPE. Knudt was born on 3 Mar 1863 in Valdres i Oppland, Norway; died on 30 May 1934 in Morrison County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 29 Mar 1868, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She married her first cousin.

Family/Spouse: Christopher Zakariasen ØDEGÅRD. Christopher (son of Zakarias Øysteinsen ØDEGÅRD and Ingelev Andersdatter TUNE) was born on 21 Apr 1862 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 17 Nov 1933 in South Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
The date on her gravestone

Clara married Andrew SANDERSON on 4 Feb 1897 in Rock County, Minnesota. Andrew was born on 25 May 1871 in Iowa; died on 26 Apr 1938 in Rock County, Minnesota; was buried in Flowerfield Cemetery, Hills, Rock County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Surname Sælid in Norway.

He registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in McKenzie County, North Dakota. He was a farmer in Watford City. He had come to the U.S. in 1905.

In the 1930 census, he was a farmer in Tobacco Garden Twp, McKenzie County, North Dakota.

In the 1940 census, he was still a farmer in Tobacco Garden Twp. Children still at home were Dorothy and Orville. Alvin, Harold, and Annie were listed with the family but shown as absent.

He and Jennie returned from a trip to Norway aboard an American Overseas Airlines airplane that landed in New York on 26 Jul 1948. The plane had departed from Oslo. They lived in Watford City, North Dakota, at that time.

Birth:
Bø 25/ Uppigarden; his WWI draft registration said 20 Feb

Nils married Jennie LARSON on 19 Feb 1915 in McKenzie County, North Dakota. Jennie was born on 23 Feb 1898 in Iowa; died on 2 Mar 1987 in Traill County, North Dakota; was buried in Bruflat Cemetery, Portland, Traill County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Dec 1868, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Most sources on Ancestry have her birth date as 1869 or 1870 in Vang i Troms. Those dates and that location for Vang are incorrect.

Mary’s obit, as well as her gravestone, says she was born in 1869. That is incorrect.

Her obit said that she came to the U.S. at the age of 18. She and Willie and family moved to a ranch in Stanley County, South Dakota, south of Ft. Pierre, in 1906. They moved into town in 1936. Mary spent her last years in the Alleman Rest Home.

Surviving her are seven children, Goldie, Mrs. Ed Spencer, Ft. Pierre; Myrtle, Mrs. Walter Fackeiman, Ft. Pierre; Mrs. Laura Busch, Los Angeles; Orin and Stanley, Ft. Pierre, and Lowell, Pierre: eight grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and one great great grandchild. A daughter, Viola, died before Mary.

Birth:
Kjelvudn under Nedre Stele

Marit married Willie GORDON on 31 Dec 1896 in Mitchell County, Iowa. Willie was born in 1870 in Mitchell County, Iowa; died in 1963 in South Dakota; was buried in Scotty Phillip Cemetery, Fort Pierre, Stanley County, South Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1905-41-2553

Notes:

Living at home with her parents and siblings in Minneapolis in the 1885 state census. In the column for “Condition”, there is no indication that she was “deaf, dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic.”

She is still living with her parents in Minneapolis in the 1895 census.

In the 1900 census, she, as 25 year-old Bertha Flatten, is an inmate at the School for Feeble Minded in Faribault.

She died of feeble mindedness, epilepsy, and mitral stenosis.

Birth:
30-6-19 on her death certificate means years-months-days

Died:
died at the Faribault School for Defectives

Notes:

Called Dorothea in the 1885 state census.

In the 1900 census, she had been married for three years and had had no children.

Margarite married Frederick WILLIAMSON on 19 Sep 1897 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Frederick was born in Sep 1870 in Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called Annie in the 1880 census.

In the 1940 census, she is the 60 year-old widow Nellie T Pederson and lives with her daughter and son-in-law in Vancouver, Washington. Five years earlier, she had lived in Minneapolis.

A Trønderlag source says that she died 24 March 1961.

Nellie married Christoffer PEDERSON on 7 Jul 1898 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Christoffer was born on 17 Nov 1872 in Norway; died on 14 Jul 1936 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Listed in the 1885 state census. Not listed later.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1941-MN-006713

Notes:

Living with his mother in the 1905 state census.

In the 1910 census he and his brother Walter are roomers in Minneapolis at 320 Cedar Avenue. Both men are laborers.

He registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in Willmar. He was a farmer in Gennessee Twp. His nearest relative was Alta Dorothy Flaten of 1 Gennessee. He was of medium height and build. No information was taken for his eye or hair color.

In the 1920 census, he is 33 year-old Balder Flaten, a farmer in Gennessee Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. The household consists of himself, Alta, 26, Wiliam, 3 months, Charles, apparently also 3 months, and Walter, Balder’s brother.

In the 1930 census, Balder is a boilermaker for a steam railroad shop and he and his family live in Willmar in a house on Litchfield Avenue that he is renting. The family consists of Balder, 44, Alta, 36, William B, 13, Charles B, 10, Leo G, 9, Anna M, 7, Calvin C, 5, Helen M, 3, Elroy J, 1, and Raymond H, 4 months.

In the 1940 census, he was a WPA laborer living on a farm in Gennessee Twp, Kandiyohi County.

According to his death certificate, for which his wife Alta was the informant, Balder was a WPA worker. He died of myocarditis brought on by the flu. He died in Fahlun Twp but he was a resident of Gennessee Twp.

Family/Spouse: Alta Dorothy PETERSON. Alta (daughter of Charles PETERSON and Anna ANDERSON) was born on 3 Aug 1893 in Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota; died on 15 Nov 1968 in Willmar, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota; was buried on 18 Nov 1968 in Atwater Union Cemetery, Atwater, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1960-MN-025633

Notes:

Living with his mother in the 1905 state census.

In the 1910 census he is living in Minneapolis with his sister Nellie Pedersen and her family. He is a clerk in a butcher shop.

He registered for the draft in Minneapolis on June 5, 1917. At that time he lived at 2411 11th Avenue South in Minneapolis. He was self-employed with a grocery business at 910 East 24th Street. He was married with a wife and child and claimed their dependancy as grounds for exemption from the draft. He was tall and slender with blue eyes and light hair.

In the 1930 census, he and his family live at 4101 41st Avenue South in Minneapolis. He has a grocery store.

In 1937, he was licensed to sell “lunch, groceries, soft drinks and confectionery” at 2507 East 38th Street in Minneapolis.

In the 1940 census, he and his wife and four children still lived at 4101 41st Avenue in south Minneapolis. He was a the manager of a confectionery.

He was the informant for his brother Walter’s death certificate. At that time, Nordahl lived at 4101 41st Avenue S.

According to Mark, Nordahl owned the building his store was in and rented out several stores in the building to others.

Birth:
birth location according to his draft registration

Nordahl married Almida Caroline RENNING on 8 Sep 1914 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Almida (daughter of Conrad RENNING and Marie PETERSON) was born on 25 Mar 1896 in Minnesota; died on 11 Jan 1980 in Scott County, Minnesota; was buried on 14 Jan 1980 in Hillside Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1943-MN-023791

Notes:

Living with his mother, as Valtor, in the 1905 state census.

In the 1910 census he and his brother Baldur are roomers in Minneapolis at 320 Cedar Avenue. Both men are laborers.

In the 1920 census, he is a farm laborer on his brother Balder’s farm in Kandiyohi County.

In the 1930 census, Walter was a lodger with a family in south Minneapolis. He was a salesman in the groceries business.

Walter died of tuberculosis. At his death he was a single man who was a clerk in a grocery store. He lived at 736 East Franklin and had lived in Minneapolis all of his life. His brother Nordahl was the informant for his death certificate.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1910-MN-019370

Notes:

Not listed in the 1900 census. Living with her mother, as a 12 year-old, in the 1905 state census.

In the 1910 census, she (as Mabel Flaten) and her brother Nordahl Flaten are living with their sister Nellie Pedersen (husband Christopher b. ca 1873) and her family in Minneapolis. Mabel is shown as 22 years old and is a cutter in a knitting works.

Mabel died from typhoid fever which had produced internal hemorrhaging as well as pneumonia. She lived at 2311 E 32nd Street in Minneapolis and was employed as a “cutter.”

A different Mabel Flaten, a few years older and perhaps a cousin, married a Walter G Lee in Renville County on 11 Sept 1912.

Birth:
The child shown in the Minnesota Births and Christenings database on FS as born on this date to these parents was named Emily Ruth.

Died:
at Norwegian Deaconess Hospital in Minneapolis

Buried:
This is the cemetery on the northeast corner of Lake Street and Cedar Avenue. It is the oldest cemetery in Minneapolis and is now called the Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery. Minneapolis’s poorest citzens were buried in unmarked mass graves in Section H.

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.

Berith married Christopher HOLLEN in 1880. Christopher (son of Even Helgessen HØVERSTAD and Anne Tostensdatter VØVLISEIGA) was born on 29 Jan 1855 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 6 Aug 1916; was buried in West Norway Lake Lutheran Cemetery, Sunburg, Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Hamre 59/1 Nerre Nordigarden

Died:
Oldre 58/3 Nerøldre

Family/Spouse: Ola Guttormsen OLDRE. Ola (son of Guttorm Knutsen OLDRE and Dorte Nilsdatter REMMISSTØLEN) was born in 1863 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1944 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]