Didrik Eriksen Vaslestad
(-)
Andreas Didriksen Opsand
(1815-1894)
Kirstine Ellefsdatter
(Cir 1815-)
Elen Kirstine Andreasdatter Haraldstad
(1851-1925)

 

Family Links

Spouses/Children:
Anton Andreassen Oraug

Elen Kirstine Andreasdatter Haraldstad 1 2 3

  • Born: 4 May 1851, Ski, Akershus, Norway
  • Marriage: Anton Andreassen Oraug on 29 Jan 1874 in Askim, Østfold, Norway 1
  • Died: 24 May 1925 aged 74
  • Buried: 3 Jun 1925

   Cause of her death was cancer and kidney disease [kreft og nyresykdom].

   Other names for Elen were Ellen Andreasdatter Opsand, Ellen Kirstine Oraug and Ellen Oroug.

  General Notes:

Ellen and Anton took over her father's farm, Haraldstad, in Askim after her father died. Ellen sold it on 11 May 1917 for 60 000 kr.

In the census for 1900 Ellen was a widow. She owned and farmed the Haraldstad farm in Askim. She had her son Andreas with her, and four farmworkers.

She was living at Løkeberg in Ski when she died.


Elen married Anton Andreassen Oraug, son of Andreas Jensen Oraug and Maren Johannesdatter, on 29 Jan 1874 in Askim, Østfold, Norway.1 (Anton Andreassen Oraug was born on 28 Apr 1849 in Askim, Østfold, Norway, died on 30 Nov 1899 in Haraldstad, Askim, Østfold, Norway and was buried on 13 Dec 1899 in Askim, Østfold, Norway.)


Sources


1 The Digitalarkivet Census for Norway, http://digitalarkivet.no/cgi-win/WebFront.exe?slag=vis&tekst=meldingar&spraak=e (A joint project between The National Archives of Norway, The regional Archive of Bergen and The Department of History, University of Bergen.), Askim: 1847-1879, Ministerialbok.

2 Martha Østensvig, Bygdebok for Askim (Bind I) (Askim, 1965. Utgitt av Askim Kommune.), p. 124.

3 The Digitalarkivet Census for Norway, http://digitalarkivet.no/cgi-win/WebFront.exe?slag=vis&tekst=meldingar&spraak=e (A joint project between The National Archives of Norway, The regional Archive of Bergen and The Department of History, University of Bergen.), The 1900 census for the Haraldstad farm in Askim.

4 Ibid, Askim: 1921-1937, Klokkerbok.

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