Elling Vebjørnsen Ohnstad, f. 1880, hva skjedde med han i USA?

[Asbjørn Ramsøy]

For noen dager siden la vi inn i forumet spørsmål om ovennevntes bror Ole Andreas,

som dugnadsgjengen her hjelpte oss med, som vi takker hjerteligst for.

Nå viser det seg at han også hadde en bror, Elling, som utvandret 1896,

som vi ikke vet lagnaden til, eller når han døde.

Jackie hadde en fin oversikt fra Family seach, se under:

 

 

[Jackie K Marler]

Elling and Andrew live on adjacent farms or addresses in the 1900 census:

"United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9VK-GG6 : Thu Jan 01 19:20:02 UTC 2026), Entry for Henry Hanson and Elling Ohmitactad, 1900.

 

But with a  very bad spelling of Ohnstad in the original.....Elling is working as a painter.

[Lars Johannessen]

Han ble etterlyst i Nordisk Tidende i 1922, da står det at han skrev fra New York i 1905 at han skulle reise vestover. 

https://www.nb.no/search?q="elling vebjørnsen"

 

[Jackie K Marler]

Way interesting.  Who was looking for him in 1922 and why?  And why not before?

 

Here is Elling's arrival, #76 in 1896:

"New York, Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1925", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JXQS-1MR : Thu Nov 27 03:01:23 UTC 2025), Entry for Elling W. Ohnstad, 31 January 1896.

 

Name	Elling W. Ohnstad
Sex	Male
Age	16
Nationality	Norway, Norwegian
Event Type	Immigration
Event Date	31 January 1896
Event Place	Ellis Island, New York City, New York, United States
Page Number	125
Series Number	M237
Affiliate Film Number	M237-0653
Affiliate Publication Title	Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897
Departure Port	Liverpool
Ship Name	Britannic

[Jackie K Marler]

This is probably about Ole Andreas Ohnstad, coming on Brittanic in 1898, same boat as Elling, but going to an uncle at Petersburg N.D.  So who was the uncle living there in 1898?

"New York, New York, Index to Passengers Lists of Vessels, 1897-1902", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZPZ-Y5TP : Sun Aug 31 20:01:52 UTC 2025), Entry for Andrias Olmstad, 1898.

[Jackie K Marler]

Okay the reason he wrote in 1905 from New York is he was returning to U.S. after a trip home and he wanted to let them know he made it okay?

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/557/pe00000000711849