Old Sea Chest Origins

[Warren Ness]

Been in Iowa, USA family over 50 years.  We have no information of it's travels.

[Roy-Petter Askim]

Maybe her, living at Indre Haaland, married Sævereide?

 

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/view/327/pv00000007800292

 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103761805/anna-savereid 

 

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/L8QV-WQT 

 

They farmed Øvre Sævareid for 26 years, and went to US in 1881 with 10 children according to this book: https://www.nb.no/items/2a811acfb56fd33bae1092e0b70b3bb5?page=61&searchText=Skåneviksoga III 

 

Endret Juli 8, 2023 av Roy-Petter Askim

[Christer Kjølsrud]

You will find Johannes P. Severeide in the 1910 US Census for Story in Iowa. So now we know why the chest ended up in Iowa.

 

https://www.myheritage.no/research/collection-10132/1910-united-states-foderale-folketelling?itemId=25181431-&groupId=3fc9ef6348150ba402a1da92e628eeb5&action=showRecord&recordTitle=Johannes+P+Severeide

 

[Christer Kjølsrud]

2 timer siden, Roy-Petter Askim skrev:

They farmed Øvre Sævareid for 26 years, and went to US in 1881 with 10 children according to this book: https://www.nb.no/items/2a811acfb56fd33bae1092e0b70b3bb5?page=61&searchText=Skåneviksoga III 

 

Since one need a Norwegian IP-address to open this book I just did some cutting and pasting:

 

[Roy-Petter Askim]

They traveled 25.05.1881 from Bergen on Cunard Line bringing 1900 kr.: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/view/8/pe00000000665086 original here; https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/43598/167 no. 2005.

http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_line.asp?ag=cunar&ye=1881 Steamship to Hull, by railway to Liverpool and by steamship to New York or Boston and from there on to the final destination.

 

The chest is dated 1848 because for a long time, it was customary for girls to be provided with an equipment chest in which she collected textiles of all kinds that were needed in the home she would be responsible for in her adult life. But the many chests that have been preserved with men's names or initials painted on show that they also had their own chests for storing clothes and other belongings. So, it was made many years before the migration.

 

In rural areas, the clothes chests were usually on the second floor , or the attic of a special storehouse, a “stabbur”, used for food on the first floor. When, later in the 19th century, it became more common to have two floors and an attic in the farmhouse, the chests could also be placed on the second floor or in an attic there.