Lars Tronsen Laholmen ^{2 3 4}

   Other names for Lars were Lars Tronsen Dovrefled and Lars Tronsøn Nordre Schiørten.

  Medical Notes:

He was recorded as 78 years old when he died.

Lars married Mari Torersdatter Auten on 20 May 1777 in Askim, Østfold, Norway.

  Marriage Notes:

Their marriage date is also recorded as 20 May 1777. The churchbook records 03 June. ¹

Lars next married Kari Brynhildsdatter on 30 Nov 1786 in Askim, Østfold, Norway.¹ (Kari Brynhildsdatter was born in 1760.)

  Marriage Notes:

When they married he was recorded as Lars Tronsen Giellestad.

Lars and Kari lived on the Ospelund farm in Askim in 1790, when they had their son Tron. From the middle of the 1790's we find the family on the Laholmen farm (under Prestegården) as cottagers, until the early 1800's.

They were cottagers with land on the Prestegården in Askim in the census for 1801. He was 45 years old and in his second marriage. She was 41 and in her first. They had their children Maria (12), Tron (10), Christian (5), and Anne (3) with them. ^{1 5}