Name:

Ole

Sørensen

Åsjordet under Ås

26 Jan 1822/7 Nov 1877

(first name)

(surname)

(farm name)

(birth/death dates)

Name in America:

Ole

Sorenson

Sorenson Christenson

(first name)

(m.i.)

(last name)

Spouse:

Anne

Christiansdatter

Venstøp

21 Sept 1824/30 Mar 1909

(first name)

(surname)

(farm name at marriage)

(birth/death dates)

Children:

Ingeborg Sofie Olsdatter

Søren Olsen

Maren Kristine Olsdatter

Hans Christian Olsen

Inger Karine Olsdatter

Isaak Olsen

Municipality (kommune) in Norway:

Skien (currently)

Church Parish to which they belonged:

Gjerpen

Emigrant Ship:

Laurdal

Depart Date:

1868

Port:

Porsgrunn

Early:

Fillmore County, Minnesota

Final:

Lisbon, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

Occupations/Professions

in Norway:

Hanmmersmed, husmann and glass factory worker

in America:

Farmer

Additional Information:  Ole Sørensen, son of Søren Christensen and Ingeborg Pedersdatter, grew up on a farm called Skomakerplass in Åshammer, Gjerpen, Telemark. He married Anne Christiansdatter on 1 November 1844 at the Gjerpen Kirke. They had six children: Ingeborg Sofie, Maren Kirstine, Inger Karine, Søren, Hans Christian and  Isak. Ole and his wife Anne and their six children left Norway from Porsgrunn, Norway on April 19, 1868 on the Ship Laurdal (P. M. Petersen) and arrived in the port of Quebec on June 8, 1868. They later traveled by rail to Fillmore County, Minnesota to stay with Ole's brother. Shortly after their arrival in the U. S., Ole and family traveled west to Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota near Montevideo. Ole built his first home out of sod and dirt walking across the prairie to Montevideo to buy the necessary tools to build a home.

Contact:                     

Anita Streich

Relationship to emigrant:

3^rd great-grandfather

Email:

annya12874@hotmail.com

Date:

26 Oct 2016