Hans Pedersen
(Cir 1730-)
Eli Tornerud
(Cir 1730-)
Lars Gulbrandsen Massenghytta
(Cir 1748-1792)
Tollena Hansdatter
(1754-1824)
Kristoffer Larsen
(Cir 1776-1859)

 

Family Links

Spouses/Children:
Anne Amundsdatter

Kristoffer Larsen 2 3 4 5

  • Born: Cir 1776, Nordre Løken, Askim, Østfold, Norway
  • Christened: 1 Dec 1776, Askim, Østfold, Norway
  • Marriage: Anne Amundsdatter on 24 Nov 1800 in Askim, Østfold, Norway 1
  • Died: 24 May 1859, Tornerud, Askim, Østfold, Norway aged 83
  • Buried: 31 May 1859

   Other names for Kristoffer were Maseng and Christopher Larsen Tornerud.

  General Notes:

In 1801 he appears to have been 23 years old, married, and working as a servant on the Mosengen farm in Askim. His wife was working on the Jahren farm. 7

  Medical Notes:

He was 82 years old when he died.


Kristoffer married Anne Amundsdatter, daughter of Amund Amundsen and Ingeborg Olsdatter, on 24 Nov 1800 in Askim, Østfold, Norway.1 (Anne Amundsdatter was born in 1779 in Simenrud, Askim, Østfold, Norway, christened in 1779 in Askim, Østfold, Norway, died on 9 Apr 1862 in Tornerud, Askim, Østfold, Norway and was buried on 16 Apr 1862.)


  Marriage Notes:

Kristoffer and Anne farmed the nordre Laholmen farm in Askim ca 1805 - 10. They were cottagers on the Tornerud farm from about 1810 until the beginning of the 1850's.

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: 1790-1816, Ministerialbok.

2 Ulf Grøndahl, Gårdshistorie for Askim (Bind 2) (Utgitt av Askim kommune, Askim, 1987.), pp. 265, 340.

3 Ulf Grøndahl, Gårdshistorie for Askim (Bind 3) (Askim, Norway, 1987.), pp. 410, 417.

4 Kai Henning Jacobsen, Familien Jacobsens informasjons og slektsside (http://home.chello.no/~jakobsen/jacobsen/index.html). Kai Henning©mars 2001

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: 1847-1879, Ministerialbok.

6 Ibid, Askim: 1817-1846, Ministerialbok.

7 Ibid, The 1801 census for the Mosengen farm in Askim.

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