Duty of a Sergeant living on farm in 1865

[Carla J Tweeton]

I'd like to know a little about the duty of a sergeant living with their family in 1865.

 

[Svenn Ruskedal]

I'd like to know a little about the duty of a sergeant living with their family in 1865.

 

Sergeants name and area, PLEASE :rolleyes:

[Carla J Tweeton]

The 1865 census for parish Norderhov in Buskerud county,Norway:

 

Nils Engebretsen, age 24,Sergeant, born in Norderhov's  Prgj.

 

Farm:  Veien

 

Parents:   Engebret  Nilsen

                 Anne Marie Andersdatter

[Svenn Ruskedal]

The 1865 census for parish Norderhov in Buskerud county,Norway:

 

Nils Engebretsen, age 24,Sergeant, born in Norderhov's  Prgj.

 

Farm:  Veien

 

Parents:   Engebret  Nilsen

                 Anne Marie Andersdatter

http://digitalarkivet.arkivverket.no/ft/person/pf01038084005184

 

What kind of help do you want? :)

[Carla J Tweeton]

OK, was it the same in Norway as in Sweden to staff the army?  The allotment system?  Farms grouped into communities that supplied one soldier?  The soldier was provided with a small home and plot of ground to support his family.  Then the soldier had to go to war if called.

 

We had an ancestor who left Voss , Norway called a Corporal , for Kongsberg.  There he apparently was still known as a Corporal.  This was about 1800.

 

Nils Engebretsen was still called a Sergeant at the birth of a child in Hole, Tyristand in 1876.

 

Thanks for your interest!