Fra Sveio, eller kanskje Skåre, til Nebraska ca 1860 - 1900

[Åsbjørg Johanna Susort]

Litt usikker på hvor eg skal plassere denne.
Min tippoldefars yngste søster, Berthe Tholene Knudsdatter, flyttet til Nebraska mellom 1900 og 1902. Hun var gift med Jacob Matthias Olsen fra Strømsvold, Sveio.
Hordaland fylke, Sveio i Sveio, Ministerialbok nr. B 2 (1883-1894), Vigde 1888, side 135
http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?i ... _side=-135

5 barn fødd på Straumsvoll. 2 dør unge, bor i Haugesund ved tellingen 1900:
http://digitalarkivet.no/cgi-win/webcen ... felt=skjul

Har funnet slektstre på ancestry og er i kontakt med eier.
Clevenger-Stephens Family Tree
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/20224092 ... 1310?ssrc=

Fra epost:
Going to Nebraska was odd. I looked at censuses around the location they stayed in Nebraska, and there wasn’t a colony of Norwegians there. I wonder if someone from Jakob’s family led them to Nebraska. We definitely know that the Jakob and Berthe lived in Nebraska because their youngest daughter was born in that state. I do have one clue. In an old photo album, some photos from Nebraska were found. I sent the photos of an expert in Nebraska who dated the photos as from the 1860-1880s. I’ll attach them here. I do not know who these people are, but they were in the family photo album and the photos were taken in the late 1880s in Nebraska. Bertha and Jakob knew them somehow.
Jacob was a sailor but the story goes that Berthe complained to his captain and asked that Jakob not sail anymore. Somebody told me Jakob died in a logging accident (cutting trees) but I don’t know where I heard that. My beloved grandmother died and my dad wasn’t very interested in family history so I’m trying to pull it together. I can’t find Berthe and Jakob’s immigration paperwork, or the ship they came over on. I don’t know what port they came in or how in they got to Nebraska.

[Åsbjørg Johanna Susort]

Har lagt ut etterlysning på DA brukerforum også
http://forum.arkivverket.no/topic/18639 ... 1860-1900/

[gj06006]

Ellis Island:



First Name: Jacob
Last Name: Olssen
Ethnicity: Norway, Norwegian
Last Place of Residence: Stavanger
Date of Arrival: Apr 23, 1901
Age at Arrival: 41y Gender: M Marital Status: M
Ship of Travel: Cymric
Port of Departure: Liverpool
Manifest Line Number: 0015


Skipsmanifestet:
http://www.ellisisland.org/EIFile/popup ... exe%3FT%3D\\\\192.168.100.11\\IMAGES\\T715-0186\\T715-01860487.TIF%26S%3D.5&pID=604700030174&name=Jacob%26nbsp%3BOlssen&doa=Apr+23%2C+1901&port=Liverpool&line=0015

http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passR ... 4700030174

[Åsbjørg Johanna Susort]

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