Hans Hansen Bølstad ^{1 2 3 4}

   Another name for Hans was Hans Askestad.

  General Notes:

Bølstad var i de siste år sykelig og døde 8. april 1902. Han var en mann med mange interesser og deltok med iver i sin bygds kommunale liv.

Olava gift med lærer Hans Askestad på Bilstad i Røyken.

  Research Notes:

In the census for 1865 he was 26 years old, unmarried, and living with his widowed father on the Askestad farm in Røken, Buskerud. There were 3 other families also on the farm. Hans was a joiner/carpenter [snedker] and his father was a sawyer [Sagskjærer].

The census for 1900 notes: "Snedkerarb. paa Gaarde. Forhenv. Gårdbr. (Syg)".

  Noted events in his life were:

• He was a farmer and carpenter.

Hans married Olava Mathiasdatter Grini, daughter of Mathis Rolf Iversen Grini and Sidsel Olsdatter Skjørten, in Dec 1882. (Olava Mathiasdatter Grini was born on 3 May 1850 in Eiebakke, Askim, Østfold, Norway, christened on 20 May 1850 in Askim, Østfold, Norway and died on 9 Jan 1917 in Oslo, Norway.)

  Marriage Notes:

In the census for 1900 Hans and Olava lived at Schønnings Gade 5 in Kristiania with 4 of their children: Harald, Rolf Sigurd, Karsten, and Kristian Mathias. Their daughter had been adopted by Olava's sister Mina and her husband. ³