[#29710] Halvorsønnene fra Bruher i Mo i Telemark til Vinje i Telemark.

[Gjest Tom Askerøi]

Rikard Berge ’Vinje og Rauland’ III s. 447 ’Fraa Bruher i Mo kom tvo fatiggutar til Vinje, baae rudde seg plassar. Knut rudde Hegni under Groven og ætti etter honom er uppe den dag i dag. Hallvord Hallvordsson, bror hans Knut, rudde Høgsæt, under Lofthus i Bøgrend, i 1780-åri...’.Halvor finner vi greit på ’Hm plads Høgset’ i FT1801 - 40 år. Knut er det litt verre med. Det er vel ham vi finner på ’H.mands Plads Skelvig’ - 48 år? (Eller kan det være ham vi finner på Hylland nordre som ugift tjener 25 år?)Men så begynner forvirringen for alvor - for i Steinar Marvik: ’Mo bygdebok’ I s623 finner vi at på Bruher finner vi en Halvor Eilivson (1723-1809) nevnt der 1801 og kone Asgjerd Jonsdtr som døde rundt 1770 ’utan at me kan finne ho i kyrkjeboka’. Med barna Eiliv (1761-1773 ’drukna i Kviteseidvatnet) og Halvor (1770- ).Er dette samme Halvor Halvorsøn? Og er Eiliv en tredje bror? Eller tar Rikard Berge feil med hensyn til hvor brødrene Knut og Halvor kom ifra? Eller kan det være Marvik som har ’mistet’ en bror og stokket om på fødselsårstallene?Og til slutt: Er det noen som kjenner til ’ætti’ etter Knut som ’er uppe den dag i dag’?

[Gjest Mary Farrell]

Hi, TomHere's how I have tentatively put this family together.Halvor Eilevson, b. 1727 at Troen in Rauland, son of Eilev Aamundson & Torbjorng Halvorsdtr, married Sigrid Knutsdtr (Edland,b. 1729, dtr of Knut Saavison & his second wife, Tore Aslaksdtr) on 19 Nov 1752. That's right from the church records. I find children, all born in Vinje:1. Anne Halvorsdtr, born before they married, in 1752, with the father just called soldat Halvor Eilevson & mother just called Sigrid Knutsdtr. Wit: Anne Halvorsdtr, Haege Onsdtr, Herbjorn Olavson, Augund Alfson & Olav Eilevson. Married Hans Jakob Wulff. 2. Knut Halvorson, b. 1754, father just called Halvor Eilevson. Wit: Anne Lofthus, Saave Halvorsdtr, Kjetil Aasmundson, Eilev Sigurdson & Olav Eilevson. Married abt 1785 to Anne Olavsdtr Rismyr. Lived at Hegnen (spelling?) 3. Tore Halvorsdtr, b. 1757, again father just Halvor Eilevson. Wit: Torbjorg Nedgarden, Aamund & Olav Eilevson, Svein Vetleson & Guro Vinje. 4. Halvor Halvorson, b. 1759, calld the late Halvor Eilevson's. Wit: Ingebjorg & Olav Nestestog, Knut Leidulvson, Trond Olavson & Guro Vinje. Married 1784 to Gunnhild Jonsdtr Byggtveit and lived at Hogset.I don't know why RB calls the brothers Bruher. Sigrid Knutsdtr did remarry. In 1774 to Olav Herjuson Nestestog and the lived at Nestestog.I don't have the bygdeboker for these parishes, so I just work with the parish records, but this makes sense to me.Mary Farrell

[Gjest Tom Askerøi]

Hi, Mary - nice to get in touch with you again. And your information is, as allways, superb.I can't say if it's Berge or Marvik who's mixing up two Halvor Eilivssons, one being the father of 'the Berge brothers' (Knut and Halvor) and the other being the father of 'the Marvik brothers' (Eiliv and Halvor). The first Halvor died before 1759 (and he's wife remarried) and the other outlived his wife (and remarried according to Marvik).Could 'the Berge brothers', being fatherless, have been raised by (a relative?) of the same name as their father causing the confusion?Not that it matters much - I've found the brothers I was looking for (thanks again, Mary).

[Gjest Tom Askerøi]

By the way: I've noted Hans Jakob Wulf as married to Anne Torsdatter, Vesaas. Rikard Berge sais 'in july'1734 - but I've found it in november 1734 in the church book.Was he married twice? Perhaps twice the same year (me misreading the wife's name because I expected it to be Torsdatter)?

[Gjest Mary Farrell]

Hi, TomI missed seeing your question about Hans J. Wulf. Yes, he was married twice. And I have that first marriage in 1734 as 3rd Juledag. But those records are hard to read.The marriage to Anne Halvorsdtr was in 1777. He's not referred to as a widower at that marriage, but is called klokker.I couldn't find a burial record for Anne Torsdtr, but, when Anne Halvorsdtr died in 1814 she is clearly called klokker Wulf's widow, Anne Halvorsdtr, 68 years old.Mary