Ole Evensen ^{1 2 3}

   Another name for Ole was Ole Evensen Sulerud.

  General Notes:

He was 48 years old in the census for 1801.

The History of Sulerud farm is quite interesting. The farm was evidently heavily mortgaged to the owners of Eidsberg Church. The families on the farm "bygslet" [leased] the farm, and that went on for generations. Johannes Evensen took over the farm from his father, who had obtained a court decision to take over the farm - but not ownership. Ole Evensen and his brother Johannes used half of the farm each. They did not do their job well enough. Johannes died, but Ole was forced to leave the farm in 1811.

Han Ole og Johannes drev hver sin halvpart av gården. Begge vanskjøttet vedlikeholdet av husene på gården. Eieren av Eidsberg kirke, Generealmajor Lund, forsøkte å snakke dem til rfette, uten at dette hjalp. Da Johannes døde, besluttet retten å kante Ole ut. Ole flyttet på faredagen 1811.

  Noted events in his life were:

• He was a tenant farmer [lejlænding] in 1801 in Sulerud, Eidsberg, Østfold, Norway. He farmed half of the Sulerud farm.

Ole married Christine Aslachsdatter, daughter of Aslak Rasmussen Leangsrud and Inger Gundersdatter Bagge-Rånås, on 2 Apr 1787 in Eidsberg, Østfold, Norway. (Christine Aslachsdatter was born in 1764 ² and was christened in Dec 1764 in Eidsberg, Østfold, Norway.)

  Marriage Notes:

They were tenant farmers [lejlænding] on the Skulerud farm in Eidsberg in 1801. They were both in their first marriage and had 3 sons with them: Christen (13 years old), Andreas (8), and Even (2).

There were many other families living on Skulerud at that time including Anna Evensdatter (Ole's unmarried 38 year old sister), Johannes Evensen (46 years old) and his family, Christen Evensen (37 years old) and his family, Kirstine Evensdatter (listed as 33 but was probably 43 years old since she had a 24 year old daughter) and her family, and unmarried Mari Evensdatter (40 years old). ¹