Iver Fredriksen Gjellestad 1 2 3 4 5
General Notes: I 1864 ble søndre Gjellestad solgt ved auksjon til sønnen Iver Fredriksen for 2 800 spdl. Iver hadde bodd i Kristiania ei tid etter 1858. I 1881 var Iver Fredriksen landhandler på Holt. Iver bodde trolig på Skaugen in 1881, da sønnen Hans Petter ble konfirmert. Iver drev landhandel på "Hofskogen" etter at han en kort tid hadde handlet på Holt. Noted events in his life were: • He was a village shopkeeper [landhandler] in 1881 in Holt, Askim, Østfold, Norway. • He was confirmed on 5 Oct 1856 in Askim church, Askim, Østfold, Norway. Iver married Sissel Marie Johannesdatter Fusk, daughter of Johannes Hansen Fusk and Sigrid Gundersdatter, on 22 Jul 1863 in Askim, Østfold, Norway.1 (Sissel Marie Johannesdatter Fusk was born on 22 Jul 1838 in Nordre Fusk, Askim, Østfold, Norway, christened on 19 Aug 1838 in Askim, Østfold, Norway and died on 21 May 1921 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 |