Berit ELLINGBÖ

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 Jun 1853, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

The 1875 Norwegian census includes her son but with no name.

A Berit T. Ellingbö was a baptismal sponsor for Berit Andersdatter Ellingbö, b. 22 Jan 1895.

In the 1900 Norwegian census, she was unmarried and living on her brother Ole’s Ellingbø farm.

In the 1910 Norwegian census, as Berit Torleivsdatter Skøre, she was unmarried and living on a portion of Skøre 34/1. Her occupation was “arbeiderske, kreaturstel for andre, væving og spindling.”

Family/Spouse: Christopher Christopherson LUND. Christopher (son of Kristoffer Eivindsson BØ and Anne Ivarsdatter LAJORD) was born in 1847 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 9 Jan 1876, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Seems to be Skore in the July 2, 1892, emigration record from Vang. He was Anders K. Ellingboe on the manifest for the S.S. City of Paris on which he arrived in New York on 27 Jul 1892 with his aunt Rangdi.

In the 1894-1895 and 1895-1896 Minneapolis city directories, he is shown as Andrew Ellingboe, a clerk for, and living at, his uncle Jøger’s (#4056) jewelry business on Washington Avenue.

In the 1900 census he may be the Andrew Skore, 25, a single laborer (logger) in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. That Andrew was born in February of 1875 and came to the U.S. in 1891 or 1892.

The Anaconda Standard’s (Anaconda, Montana) list of “uncalled-for” letters at the Anaconda post office for the week ending Saturday, June 23, 1906. included one for Andrew Skore.