Lars Olai Aarnæs frå Viksdalen til USA

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Lars Olai Aarnæs frå Viksdalen til USA

Legg inn av dn20182 » 19 mar 2008 21:03:03

Min farmor Brita (f. 1880) og hennes søster Geirtrud (f. 1893) fortalte meg for ca. 40 år siden at de gjerne skulle vite hva som skjedde med deres eldste bror, Lars Olai Gjertsen Aarnæs, etter han kom til USA. Lars emigrerte fra Indre Holmedal (idag Gaular) via Bergen 17.10.1901 og familien hørte aldri mer fra ham. En yngre bror Olav Martinus Gjertsen Aarnæs (f. 26.03.1882) emigrerte også til USA og ham hadde vi kontakt med. I USA brukte han navnet Ole Orness, og han døde i 1968 på Good Samaritan Center i Cresco, Iowa. Ole visste heller ikke noe om hva som hadde skjedd med Lars. Familien prøvde å etterlyse Lars på begynnelsen av 1900-tallet, men intet resultat.

Translation: About 40 years ago, my grandmother on my fathers side, Brita (1881) and her sister Geirtrud (1893), told me, that they would like to know what happened to their elder brother Lars Olai Gjertsen Aarnæs, after he arrived in USA. Lars emigrated from Indre Holmedal (today Gaular municipality) over Bergen on 17.10.1901, the family never heared from him after that. A younger brother Olav Martinus Gjertsen Aarnæs (26.03.1882) did also emigrate, and with him the family kept in contact until he died at the Good Samaritan Center, Cresco, Iowa in 1968. In the US he went by the name Ole Orness. Neither Ole knew anything about the destiny of Lars. The family tried to search for Lars in the beginning of the 1900s, but no result occured.


Her er Lars døpt: http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?s ... e=nei&ls=1

Her er Lars' emigrasjon:

http://www.sffarkiv.no/sffbasar/default ... ourl=&id=0

Kanskje Margit i Minnesota vet hvordan man kan forsøke å lete?

Vennlig hilsen Kjetil Straume

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Legg inn av Margit Bakke » 19 mar 2008 21:15:54

What is Lars' date of birth?
Your site for his birth does not work.
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Re: Lars Olai Aarnæs frå Viksdalen til USA

Legg inn av dn20182 » 19 mar 2008 21:28:48

Hello Margit and thank you for looking into this!

Lars was born on 9th April, 1878, I will try once more to put in the link:

http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?i ... _side=-191


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Legg inn av Margit Bakke » 20 mar 2008 18:54:02

Hei Kjetil,
I have checked all places I can think of quickly and find nothing about your Lars. Perhaps after Easter I can check better when all my relatives leave. :D
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Legg inn av dn20182 » 21 mar 2008 00:50:22

Thank you very much for your effort, Margit! I am very grateful. Maybe Lars only disappeared without leaving any tracks. The old people of the family wondered if he might have been killed or had an accident.

Best wishes from Kjetil up in the mountains of Fyresdal, Telemark, where it right now is snowing very much. Tomorrow I will go for a tour with my Fiord horse and sledge.

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Legg inn av Margit Bakke » 31 mar 2008 18:26:50

Hei Kjetil!
I have done some more research using different years with birthdate and different spellings. I do not seem to find him anyplace.

:cry:
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Re: Lars Olai Aarnæs frå Viksdalen til USA

Legg inn av dn20182 » 01 apr 2008 08:27:54

Hello Margit, and again thank you very much for all you have done! This is then what the family have feared, he has just disappeared. Maybe he died on board the ship and was left at the ocean.
Best wishes from Kjetil.

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Re: Lars Olai Aarnæs frå Viksdalen til USA

Legg inn av dn20182 » 12 sep 2016 17:39:28

I think this mystery is solved! I had today an e-mail from the author of the Gards- and ættesoge for Luster municipality in Sogn, and he wrote:

Lars Olai Gjertson Aarnes, f. i Gaular 9.4.1878, sidan kjend som Louis Ornes, utvandra til Amerika i 1901 og var ei tid jarnbanearbeidar («railroad station worker») nær Duluth, St. Louis Co., Minn., men flytte kring 1912 til Washington. Ikkje so lenge etter vart Louis sjuk, og han flytte inn på ein sjukeheim i Sedro Wooley, Skagit Co., Wash. der han d. 8.3.1949, ugift.

I just wonder if maybe Lars got a psyciathric illness when he was in his 30s, and that the old people in our family in Norway found it convenient to pretend as he had disappeared?
Venleg helsing Kjetil

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Legg inn av gj06100 » 12 sep 2016 20:34:28

Hei!
Here is Louis Ornis in 1920 at the hospital..it says he is a farmer
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHN4-BV4

Perhaps he got injured working as a farmer?

1940 census (same hospital)
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9SD-FKF

mvh
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Re: Lars Olai Aarnæs frå Viksdalen til USA

Legg inn av dn20182 » 12 sep 2016 21:16:11

Thank you very much, Patty!
Venleg helsing Kjetil

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Re: Lars Olai Aarnæs frå Viksdalen til USA

Legg inn av gj06276 » 12 sep 2016 21:23:10

Louis Ornes was a patient at Northern State Hospital. Some of its history can be read here: http://www.skagitriverjournal.com/nearbys-w/nsh/nsh1-intro.html.

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Re: Lars Olai Aarnæs frå Viksdalen til USA

Legg inn av dn20182 » 12 sep 2016 21:32:29

Thank you very much, Maud!
Venleg helsing Kjetil

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