Berte Kristensdatter 2 3
Other names for Berte were Berthe Christensdatter and Birthe Christensdatter Søndre Rom. Research Notes: She was listed as 54 years old in the census for 1801. Berte married Gulbrand Sebjørnsen Skofterud on 6 Apr 1775 in Askim, Østfold, Norway.1 (Gulbrand Sebjørnsen Skofterud was born circa 1752.) Marriage Notes: In the census for 1801 they were farming the Skofterud farm in Eidsberg. They had five unmarried children with them, and a daughter's son, 1 year old Carl Gulbrandsen. 3 Berte next married Jørgen Pedersen Nord-Torper. |
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: 1758-1789, Ministerialbok.
2 Ulf Grøndahl, Gårdshistorie for Askim (Bind 3) (Askim, Norway, 1987.), p. 284.
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.), The 1801 census for the Skofterud farm in Eidsberg.
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