Torkel Arnesen Auten
(Cir 1736-1792)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Anne Maria Hansdatter Toverud

Torkel Arnesen Auten 2 3

  • Born: Cir 1736
  • Marriage: Anne Maria Hansdatter Toverud on 24 Nov 1767 in Askim, Østfold, Norway 1
  • Died: 5 Sep 1792 aged 56

   Cause of his death was drowning [drukningsulykke].

   Another name for Torkel was Torkill Arnesøn Svae.

  General Notes:

Torkel was from Svae in Skiptvet. He took over the vestre Auten (bnr. 4) farm in Askim in about 1768. Torkel moved to the Enger farm (del 1) in 1776 after trading farms with Peder Iversen. In 1789 Torkel also bought del 2 of Enger. Three years later he drowned in the river Glomma.


Torkel married Anne Maria Hansdatter Toverud, daughter of Hans Mortensen Offermand and Johanne Amundsdatter, on 24 Nov 1767 in Askim, Østfold, Norway.1 (Anne Maria Hansdatter Toverud was born in 1746.)

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: 1758-1789, Ministerialbok.

2 Ulf Grøndahl, Gårdshistorie for Askim (Bind 2) (Utgitt av Askim kommune, Askim, 1987.), pp. 294, 300, 385.

3 Ulf Grøndahl, Gårdshistorie for Askim (Bind 3) (Askim, Norway, 1987.), pp. 16, 30.

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