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Kristian Olsen Svinekle
(1800-1850)
Karen Johanne Pedersdatter
(1791-1851)
Mathis Olsen
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Johannes Kristiansen Svinekle
(1826-1905)
Maren Mattisdatter Fossum
(1829-1889)
Thorvald Johannesen Svinekle
(1864-1910)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Josefine Amalie Adolfsdatter

2. Anna Gustava Johannessen

Thorvald Johannesen Svinekle 1 2 3 4

  • Born: 13 Feb 1864, Svinekle, Askim, Østfold, Norway
  • Christened: 28 Mar 1864, Askim, Østfold, Norway
  • Unmarried (1): Josefine Amalie Adolfsdatter
  • Marriage (2): Anna Gustava Johannessen on 2 Sep 1895 in Askim church, Askim, Østfold, Norway 1
  • Died: 1910 aged 46

   Another name for Thorvald was Torvald Johannessen.

  General Notes:

Thorvald farmed the Vestby (under Oraug) farm in Askim around the end of the 1890's and is the last known cottager there.

He went to Sarpsborg.


Thorvald had a child with Josefine Amalie Adolfsdatter, daughter of Adolf Kristiansen and Martine Andersdatter. (Josefine Amalie Adolfsdatter was born on 20 Apr 1874 in Langebrække, Eidsberg, Østfold, Norway.)


Thorvald next married Anna Gustava Johannessen, daughter of Johannes Jonsen and Anna Johnsen, on 2 Sep 1895 in Askim church, Askim, Østfold, Norway.1 (Anna Gustava Johannessen was born on 24 Apr 1869 in Strømstad, Sweden and died in 1920.)


  Marriage Notes:

In the census for 1900 they lived on the Vestby farm in Askim. With them were their son, her widowed mother, and a lodger/farmhand from Sweden. 5

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: 1882-1897, Ministerialbok.

2 Ulf Grøndahl, Gårdshistorie for Askim (Bind 2) (Utgitt av Askim kommune, Askim, 1987.), pp. 162, 224.

3 Ulf Grøndahl, Gårdshistorie for Askim (Bind 3) (Askim, Norway, 1987.), pp. 186, 210.

4 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.

5 Ibid, The 1900 census for the Vestby farm in Askim.

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