Anne Kristoffersdatter BERGE

Notes:

Birth:
Berge 22/3 Slettadn

Died:
Kvåle 39/1 Nerre

Family/Spouse: Torstein Kristofferson KVÅLE. Torstein (son of Christopher Torsteinsen KVÅLE and Guri Bjørnsdatter KATTEVØL) was born in 1743 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1799 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang A, p. 690.

Birth:
Kvåle 39/1 Nerre

Family/Spouse: Berit Knutsdatter BØE. Berit (daughter of Knut Håkonsen BØE and Sigrid Håvardsdatter KASA) was born in 1767 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1858. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Kvåle 39/1 Nerre

Family/Spouse: Ingebjørg Nilsdatter GRØV. Ingebjørg (daughter of Nils Jørnson KLINGENBERG and Magelin Knutsdatter GRØV) was born in 1782 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1856. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I2963 in Jim’s VS.

Birth:
Kvåle 39/1 Nerre

Family/Spouse: Niels Nielsen GRØV. Niels (son of Nils Jørnson KLINGENBERG and Magelin Knutsdatter GRØV) was born about 1794 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1868. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Kvåle 39/1 Nerre

Margrete married Andris Olsen KATTEVOLD in 1822. Andris (son of Ole Andrisson KATTEVOLD and Ingebjørg Nilsdatter GRØV) was born in 1806 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1889. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jim calls him Erik Kristoffersen Kvåle, I8780, in his VS.

Birth:
Kvåle 39/1 Nerre

Erich married Kjersti Endresdatter KATTEVOLD on 7 Jun 1842 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Kjersti (daughter of Endre Trondsen KATTEVOLD and Ragndi Andrisdatter BERGE) was born in 1816 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1889. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang A, p. 671. This citation only mentions his later marriage to Berit Torsteinsdatter Kattevøl.

Family/Spouse: Kirsti Simonsdatter LAJORD. Kirsti (daughter of Simon Knutsson BAGETUN (SØYNE) and Anne Torsteinsdatter ELLINGBØ) was born in 1812 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1864. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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

Birth:
Kvåle 39/1 Nerre

Family/Spouse: 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]

Family/Spouse: Ola Knudsen SKOGSTAD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Grøv 7/1

Died:
Brekka 68/1 (Remmisbrekkun)

Family/Spouse: Ola Knutson LIEN. Ola (son of Knut Thomassen TØRPE and Sigrid Olsdatter LIEN) was born in 1812 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1883 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is I1994 in Jim’s VS.

Jim’s notes:

Han drev gården fra 1843. Han hadde lånt masse penger og måtte til slutt selge den på tvangsauksjon i 1853. Nils (Kattevold) Bøe kjøpte den. Ole og Berthe leide seg noen mål på Kvåle, hvor moren hans var fra. De døde begge på Kvåle. De hadde sju barn. To døde meget unge. Martha Kattevold (1846- ) Andris Kattevold (1849-) og Berit Kattevold (1852-) var født på Kattevoll Margaret Kattevold (1857- ) Andris (Andrew) Kattevold (1859-), Bøye (1864- ) Kristoffer (1868- ), Alle barna reiste til USA

Dermed var det slutt på den direkte linja på Øvre Kattevold slik haugamannen fra Føssebekk ved Helestrønd hadde sagt, da han ikke fikk fikk Dorte, datter datter til oldefaren hans (Andris O Kattevold (1737-1807)) femti år tidligere. Bildene fra Marilyn Holian Ettesvold.

Birth:
Kattevold 45/ Øvre

Died:
Kvåle in Vang

Ola married Berte Bøyesdatter WANGENSTEENVang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Berte (daughter of Böye Ovesen BERGE and Marte Christophersdatter LEIROL) was born on 20 Aug 1824 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 24 Apr 1878 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [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.

Family/Spouse: Jacob Olsen HAMRE. Jacob (son of Ole Jacobsen HAMRE and Ingebjørg Kristoffersdatter BERGE) was born on 8 Nov 1839 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Randi married Alexander Pettersen SKJELHAUGEN on 9 Jun 1870 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Alexander (son of Petter Persson) was born in 1841 in Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1916-MN-014942

Notes:

He and Ingeborg emigrated 2 days after their marriage.

aka Qvale and Quale

Carol Heimdal’s nllha.org research says the newly arrived couple first went to Goodhue County and then to Swift County in 1868. The 1886 plat map has the family owning the southwest quarter of Section 14 in, presumably, Kerkhoven Twp.

Buried:
as Christopher Quale

Kristoffer married Ingeborg Olsdatter HAMRE on 5 Apr 1866 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ingeborg (daughter of Ole Jacobsen HAMRE and Berith Johnsdatter BRÆKKE) was born on 19 Oct 1844 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 21 Aug 1909 in 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: 10 May 1835, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She is Marit Olsdatter Lajord (#I22262) in Jim’s Valdres Slekt tree. In that tree, her parents are Ola Christopherson Kvåle (1809-1903) and Berit Torsteinsdatter Kattevold (1821-1885).

She is Marit Olsdatter Qvale, #I8255, in Jim’s Ellingboe tree. In that tree, her parents are Ole Christopherson Qvale (1809-1903) and Kjersti Simonsdatter Søyne (1812-1864).

The Ellingboe tree record is the more recently modified, suggesting that it is more authoritative. The Vang birth record confirms that Marith was the daughter of the unmarried couple Ole Christopherson Qvale and Kirsti Simonsdatter Lajord.

Jim’s notes for Marit in his Ellingboe tree:

Marit was the illegitimate daughter of Ole Christopherson Kvåle and Kirsti Simonsdatter Lajord (or Søyne), according to the Vang church books, but I could not find anything about this in Anders Frøholm's Vang A.

The emigration records for Vang show that on 22 Mar 1862, Marith Olsdotter Ellingböe, widow, age 27, intended to travel to America with her two sons, Ole Olson (age 6) and Jörgen Olson (age 4). Marit was married in 1857 to Ola Jørnsson (born 1831, died between 1859 and 1862), who farmed a piece of land called "Plassen, Nørre Plassen or Jørnplassen, under Ellingbø, Nigarden, no. 33/1.”

According to the 1885 Minnesota census, her son Andrew was born in Ontario, although Arta Juneau believes that he was born soon after Marit's arrival in Northfield, Minnesota, where her brother Tosten Quamme was already living. Apparently she never remarried and had a difficult life, dying in her sixties.

Marith, 27 a widow, Ole, 6, and Jørgen, 4, left Vang for Amerika on March 22, 1862, through Bergen. This was the same day that Thrond Iverson Ellingboe (#3164) left Vang for America with his family. In Marit’s emigration record there is no mention of Andrew. In a Norway Lake church record, Marit, as Ole’s mother, is reported to have come to Goodhue County in 1862 and to Norway Lake in 1868.

Could not find an entry for Andrew’s birth in the Vang parish record.

In the 1870 census, Mary and her three boys are living on the Cal Johnson farm in Benson Twp, Chippewa County, Minnesota.

In the 1875 Minnesota census, she is Mary Olsen, 29, living with her three boys in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County.

In the 1880 census, Marit and her three boys are living on the V. J. Finstad farm in Kerkhoven Twp. George, 21, is “teaching.” Also living on that farm were Marit Ellingboe, a 46 year-old widow, “housekeeper”, and Marit’s two sons, Ole, 23, and Andew, 18. All four of these Ellingboes were born in Norway.

In the 1885 census she is living in Kerkhoven Twp with her sons Ole, 28, and Anders, 22, as well as Erland Johnson, 21, of Norway. Anders is shown as born in Ontario.

There is a gravestone for Marith O. Ellingboe in the Sunburg cemetery that provides the 1885 death date.

She was a charter member of West Norway Lake Lutheran Church.

Buried:
Norway Lake

Marit married Ola Jørgensson ELLINGBØ on 20 Oct 1857 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ola (son of Jørgen Evensson ELLINGBÖ and Anne Thomasdatter HAGASTRØND) was born in 1831 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died before 1862 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown Anders. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Jun 1841, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

From Carole H.’s write-up for the Norway Lake church’s history:

Tosten Olson Quamme and Marit Tostendatter Sondrol, Charter Members West Norway Lake Lutheran

Tosten Olson was born 19 June 1841 in Vang Parish, Valdres Norway to Ole Christopherson Qvale [1809-1903] and Kjersti Simonsdatter [1812-1864]. He had one sister Marit born in 1836.

Tosten emigrated in 1864. He first settled in Rice County. In 1867 he was one of a group of Valdres Norwegians who settled in “Valdres Prairie” now known as Kerkhoven Township in the north east corner of Swift County.

Tosten married Marit Tostendatter in 1867. Carole H notes that “There were two Marit Tostensdatters of nearly the same age and place of birth. The ELCA funeral entry has a birth date matching neither of the two. Ultimately, it was the orderly old Norwegian convention for naming children that favored the Marit listed above.”

{We don’t know who Tosten married. The Marit Tostensdatters born in those years are all accounted for. The estimable dwfrench1 has no information on Tosten O’s wife other than that she was a Marit T. and lived ca 1845 to 2 May 1903. He has her as born in Minnesota which seem unlikely.}

This Marit was the daughter of Tosten Knudsen and Marith Olsdatter. She was born 1 April 1845 in Vang, Valdres Norway. The farm name was Sondrohl. Marit emigrated 12 April 1865 as Marit Tostendatter Sondrol. She may have come to marry Tosten. {The 1865 out-migration record is not available on Digitalarkivet.}

Tosten and Marit settled on 160 acres in Section 26 [NE 1?4]. They also owned acreage in Section 23. 80 acres in N1/2 of SE 1/4, 40 acres in NE 1/4 of SW1/4 and 40 in SE 1/4 of NW 1/4. I could not find the homestead records for any of the properties. Tosten and Marit remained on this land until their deaths.

Tosten and Marit had 10 children, 9 of whom survived to adulthood. All the children were born after the move to Kerkhoven Township and all were baptized at West Norway Lake Lutheran.

1. Kristi: born 2 Mar 1869, died 26 Oct 1943, married Even Olson Grindheim

2. Marit: born 12 June 1870, died 7 June 1905, married Andrew Jorgenson

3. Tosten T: born 19 May 1872, died 29 May 1922 ,married Ingeborg [Belle] Hanson

4. Anne L: born 12 Dec 1873, died 1 Nov 1939, married Nuffen Torger “Gunuf” Gunufson

5. Dina: born 20 Aug 1875, died 09 Mar 1876

6. Ole T: born 15 June 1877, died 1907-1910, married Julia Njos

7. Martin: born 16 Mar 1879, died 07 June 1939, married Emma Johanna Paulson

8. Simon: born 22 Aug 1881, died 18 Dec 1955, married Ingeborg Halvorsdatter Hande

9. Dina, born 24 Dec 1883, died 26 Dec 1957, married Alfred Berg

10. Matthea:born 7 Dec 1889, died 5 Feb 1949, married Peter LeClair

In 1876 a school was established in the north east corner of Section 26. It was known as Quamme School.

Tosten and Marit are in the 1875 census as Olsens but by the 1880 census they are using Quamme. He adopted this name from the farm in Norway, Kvamme Gard, where he last worked.

Tosten passed away 16 May 1899 at the age of 57. The cause of death was stomach trouble lasting several years. Funeral services were held at West Norway Lake Lutheran, Rev Jordahl officiating. He was buried in the Monson Lake Cemetery. Marit passed away 2 May 1903 and was also buried at Monson Lake Cemetery, again after services at West Norway Lake Lutheran.

According to the 1907 plat map, after Marit’s death Simon and Martin each inherited 80 acres in Section 26. Tosten received 40 acres contiguous to land he owned in Section 23.

Tosten’s sister Marit Olsdatter Ellingboe was also a charter member of West Norway Lake Lutheran.

Family/Spouse: Marit. Marit died on 2 May 1903 in Swift County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]