[#20714] Emigrants from Hadeland/S. Land.

[Gjest Ole P. Gamme]

A family in Hadeland need help to find out where this family settled: Thor Andersen, b. 1851 in Gran and wife Karine Johansdtr. b. ca 1850 in V. Toten, emigr. May 23.1906 with children: Otto, b. Oct. 24.1886, Kristian, b. Jan. 17.1889, Marta, b. July 18.1891 and Anna, b. June 12.1894. Destination was: to their children in Minnesota. This children were: 1. Johan Anton, b. Nov. 6. 1873, emigr. Mar.22.1894, 2. Ingeborg, b. Feb. 3.1878, married 1901 to Kristen Hansen, b. 1880 in Brandbu, emigr. May 5. 1905 with children, Hilda Karoline, b. April 21.1902 and Torvald , b. Jan. 12.1904 from Nilseløkken in Brandbu. 3. Karoline, b. Feb. 2. 1880, married 1902 to Johan Anton Iversen, b. 1874 at Hornslien in S. Land, emigr. April 29.1904 with children Torgeir, 1 1/2 and Iver, 1/2 year old. 4. Anne Marie, b. June 21.1882, married 1905 to Johan Jacobsen, b. in Hedalen, Våge Prestegjeld, emigr. May 23.1906, destination: Ontario, Canada, used Krukhaug as surname. 5.Torvald, b. June 4.1884, emigr. May 26. 1905 with wife Marie Hornslien, 23 years old. The only child who stayed in Hadeland was Berta, born Jan. 1. 1876, and a letter sent to her in 1946 from her sister Marta, is the only trace the family has. This letter was sent from Deerwood,Crow Wing Co. MN, and Marta used the name Mrs. C. Peterson. Since most of this people are born in Hadeland, the Kontaktforum Hadeland- Amerika also will be happy for any information about where members of this family settled and lived in their new country. Mvh. Ole.