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Jens Andersen Thoengen
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Jens Andersen Thoengen 1 2 3
- Born: 8 Jun 1876, øvre Tovengen, Askim, Østfold, Norway
- Christened: 16 Jul 1876, Askim, Østfold, Norway
- Marriage: Gunhild Markusdatter Thoengen on 12 May 1903 in Askim, Østfold, Norway 1
- Died: 1947 aged 71
Other names for Jens were Jens Andersen and Jens Andersen Tovengen.
General Notes:
Jens took over the øvre Tovengen farm in Askim after his father in 1898 for 10 000 kr. When he married in 1903 he sold øvre Tovengen and took over nedre Tovengen from his father-in-law. The family took the family name "Thoengen".
Research Notes:
In the census for 1900 he was unmarried and owned and farmed the Toengen (bnr. 1) farm in Askim. There were a couple of servants and 7 canal workers. 5
Jens married Gunhild Markusdatter Thoengen, daughter of Markus Andersen Tovengen and Karen Oline Andreasdatter Kykkelsrud, on 12 May 1903 in Askim, Østfold, Norway.1 (Gunhild Markusdatter Thoengen was born on 22 Jul 1873 in nedre Rud, Askim, Østfold, Norway, christened on 31 Aug 1873 in Askim, Østfold, Norway and died in 1962.)
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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: 1898-1912, Ministerialbok.
2
Ulf Grøndahl, Gårdshistorie for Askim (Bind 3) (Askim, Norway, 1987.), pp. 329-30, 332-33.
3
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: 1874-1881, Ministerialbok.
4
Norske Gardsbruk, Ny Utgave, Bind 2, Østfold Fylke Nord, Askim Eidsberg, Editor [Redaktør]: L. K. Storhaug, Landbrukets Bokklubb, Tønsberg, 1983, p. 367.
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.), The 1900 census for the Toengen farm in Askim.
