Knute Peterson Svalde/Marit(Mary) Gjerve

[Ann-Mary Engum]

Jerry (jmanaley@corpcomm.net) Mon Feb 11 18:52:31 2002

Looking for SVALDE or SWALDE. Knut Pederson Svalde married Marit GJEVRE in 1878 in Charles Mix Co. Daughter Tarina beleived to have been born there.

http://www.google.no...qS0VlqA&cad=rja

 

 

Marit Gjevre Svalde:

 

Birth: Aug. 10, 1860

Oppland County, NorwayDeath: Feb. 6, 1914

Daughter of Iver Endresen and Aaste Ostensdr

 

Family links:

Spouse:

Knut Swalde (1850 - 1928)*

 

Children:

Alfred Benjamin Swalde (1898 - 1917)*

 

 

Burial:

Highland Cemetery

Cavalier County

North Dakota, USA

[Ann-Mary Engum]

Slektninger av Aaste Østensdatter:

 

From: HDMShort@aol.com

Subject: GJEVRE

Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:38:18 EST

Hi Listers:

 

Looking for information on the following woman who is my wife's 4x great

grandmother.

 

Aaste Remmen (Remman) nee Kjos GJEVRE

Born: 6 March 1823,Hurum, Valdres, Oppland.

Left Norway for the US June 1868 and arrived in New York August

1868 with her four youngest children.

Husband: Iver Endreson GJEVRE Married 1844, Hurum, Valdres.

Iver died after falling from a barn roof during a storm on Christmas Eve in

1884.

Aaste was left with six children: Aaste, Berith, Endre, Marith, Osten and Ole.

Died in Brandon, South Dakota 27 January 1925.

Aaste's parents were Osten KJOS and Aaste BERG.

Iver's parents were Endre GJEVRE and Berith surname unknown.

 

Any information will be greatly appreciated.

 

Harry Short

California's Uff Dah Kidhttp://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NORWAY/2002-03/1015814298

 

Ser at det står at Iver døde julaften 1884.,hvilket er feil .Han døde julaften 1866:

Permanent sidelenke: http://www.arkivverk...y&idx_side=-160

Permanent bildelenke: http://www.arkivverk...70207660312.jpg

 

Rootsweb:

From: "Sue Renkert" <suerenkert@gci.net>

Subject: [EVENSON] Grandmother Aaste Evenson

Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 08:41:14 -0900

GRANDMOTHER AASTE KJOS GJEVRE

 

by Harry W. Short HDMShort@aol.com

 

Aaste Gjevre was the fifth generation grandmother of my wife

Delores and her sister Hannah. Grandmother Aaste Remmen Kjos

nee Gjevre was born on 6 March 1823 in Norway. She married

Iver Endreson Gjevre in 1844 and they had six children. Iver

died on Christmas Eve in 1866 from injuries sustained in a fall

from a barn roof he was working on in a storm. Grandmother

Aaste was left alone to take care of the children and survived

by working hard at any kind of work she could find.

 

Aaste was a very strong woman and it was said she could lift a

pail of water off the floor with her hands a take a drink.

Grandmother Aaste helped her neighbors in Norway cooking,

cleaning, washing clothes and pitching hay in the fields. In

return for her hard work she received pork and flour. She

sheared sheep in her own home, carded and spun the wool, and

turned it into cloth for clothes and knitted socks for her

children.

 

Women in Norway never learned to read or write because they

spent all their time in the mountains taking care of the sheep

during summer months and in the winter they made various kinds

of food grown in the garden. Children rarely went to school and

usually took verbal instructions from the local minister to get

ready for Confirmation. Grandmother Aaste memorized Bible verses

and hymns by hearing others singing in church. She was 60 years

before she learned to read and write, which enabled her print

letters to her children.

 

Grandmother Aaste fell into a good fortune two years after her

Husband died. A benefactor from the United States sent $100 to

a friend in Norway with the stipulation that the money be given

to a needy person to immigrate to America. She took her four

youngest children, Endre, Marith, Austin, and Ole with her,

since the two older children were able to support themselves.

 

The trip across the ocean took eight weeks, the fare was $16 per

Person, and the passengers had to provide their own food. The

brave family arrived in New York sometime in 1868. From here

they traveled by boat on the Erie Canal to Buffalo, New York

and then by rail to Ossian, Iowa, where they settled at the home

of Iver's half brother, Gunnar Gjevre.

 

The family moved around a lot and Aaste worked at several farms

Doing hard labor to support her four young children. In 1871

Aaste's two oldest children, Berith and Aaste, joined her in

Iowa. In the fall of 1883, Aaste married Knute Evenson, Sr.

They moved into a house along with Aaste's youngest son, Ole,

who was about 10 years old at this time.

 

When grandfather Knute Evenson died in 1889, grandmother Aaste

moved to South Dakota and lived with her daughter Berith and

her husband Johannes Knutson Johnson. In August 1899, her hip

was broken when a ram bunted her; in 1904, she broke her arm;

and in 1907, she became blind. She kept her spirits up and made

several trips to North Dakota to spend time with her two sons,

Osten (Austin) and Ole. Grandmother Aaste died in Brandon,

South Dakota on 27 January 1925, at the age of 102 years.

.......

Written by Harry W. Short and published 2-4-2002 in

MISSING LINKS: A Magazine for Genealogists, Vol. 7, No. 5,

3 February 2002. http://www.PetuniaPress.com/

 

http://archiver.root...2-02/1012844474

 

g. Manley - 09/10/99 01:10:43

My Email:gmanley@gfherald.infi.net

Heritage: Irish/Norwegian

Genealogy Search: Bakken; Gjevre

Comments:

My GGgrandmother was Aaste Kjos Remmen. She was the daughter of Osten Ostenson Kjos and Aaste Ostensdatter Berge. She was born March 6, 1823 at Hurum, Valdres, Oppland. She married Iver Endreson Gjevre in 1844. Hewas born in Vang, Valdres. Also looking for Bakkens and Dahls from the Telemark area of Norway that came to ND.

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[Arne Jarlind]

Dette var fantastisk. Nå faller tingene på sin rette plass.

Tusen takk til Ann-Mary for god hjelp.

 

mvh.

Arne