Sissel Marie Johannesdatter Fusk 2 3 4 5
Sissel married Iver Fredriksen Gjellestad, son of Fredrik Olsen Skjolden and Anne Jonsdatter Enger, on 22 Jul 1863 in Askim, Østfold, Norway.1 (Iver Fredriksen Gjellestad was born on 16 Jan 1842 in Søndre Gjellestad, Askim, Østfold, Norway, christened on 6 Feb 1842 in Askim, Østfold, Norway and died on 3 Jan 1923 in Verendrye, North Dakota, USA.) Marriage Notes: In 1865 Ivar Fredriksen and Sessel Johannesdatter owned and farmed the Gjellestad (131) farm. With them were their son Johan H. Ivarsen (1) and their fosterdaughter, Inger M. Fredriksdaughter, who was also Ivar's younger sister. Ivar and Inger's parents had both died just a couple of years before. His other sister, Sophia Fredriksdatter, was at the time 23 years old and a servant to Nicolai E. Sørenssen's family on the Kolstad nordre farm. 6 |
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 Ulf Grøndahl, Gårdshistorie for Askim (Bind 2) (Utgitt av Askim kommune, Askim, 1987.), p. 71.
3 Ulf Grøndahl, Gårdshistorie for Askim (Bind 3) (Askim, Norway, 1987.), p. 70.
4 Bengt Strøm (b-str@online.no), Descendants of Ivar Fredriksen Gjellestad.
5 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: 1817-1846, Klokkerbok.
6 Ibid, The 1865 census for the Gjellestad farm in Askim.
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