Svingen in Slemdal?

[Margit R Bakke]

I need help figuring out where Berthea Andersen was born as it states Svingen in Slemdal. Where is Slemdal? It states she was born 1894 there. Where should I look for her birth?

She had a son in 1920 with Thure Rylander of Sweden. The child was adopted by Johannes Edvardsen Abelquist f.?? and his wife Helga Sofie of Tveter who lived in Moss.

Source information: Oslo county, Rikshospitalet, Parish register (official) nr. F 0017 (1919-1922), Birth and baptism records 1920, page 73.
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#54 Per Warner/Werner
The child's obituary. His grandchildren are looking for help to find more information and I am trying to help them. They are interested in the adopted parents and the birth parents.

Per Werner Abelquist
Abelquist, Per Werner
Jan. 18, 1920 - Oct. 6, 2008

Per Werner Abelquist, 88, Venice died Oct. 6, 2008.
Services and inurnment will be at Gulf Pines Memorial Park later. Lemon Bay Funeral Home, Venice Chapel, is in charge of arrangements.
Survivors include his wife, Doris; daughters Joyce Abelquist-Fix of Grovetown, Ga., and Anita Watts of Englewood; son Paul of Long Beach, Calif.; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Per was born in Oslo, Norway, and came to the U.S. in 1940 with the Merchant Marine, and became a U.S. citizen. He was an avid skier, runner and bicyclist, an EMT, and a VFW volunteer.

Published in Herald Tribune on Oct. 9, 2008

Any ideas are welcome.
Thanks,

[Tove Dahl Johansen]

Hello

Slemdal is the older name for Siljan.
It is in Telemark, near Skien.

Tove

[Tove Dahl Johansen]

This could also be Slemdal here in Oslo (earlier in Vestre Aker) - Tove

[dn34353]

My two cents: The column with "'Svingen' - Slemdal" refers to the "bopæl" - current residence of the mother - not necessarily her place of birth. Furthermore, since the son's baptism took place in Christiania/Oslo, it seems likely in this case that Slemdal refers to the Slemdal neighbourhood in Vestre Aker in Oslo. "Svingen" may be a former street name or refer to present day Slemdalsvingen.

[Tove Dahl Johansen]

Just by the way, Slemdal in Vestre Aker (now in Oslo) is a stop on the metro line going up to Holmenkollen. Tove

[dn30219]

I need help figuring out where Berthea Andersen was born

I think her name is spelled Bertha Anderson in the parish.

As far as I can see, we so far have no evidence of Bertha being born in Norway. Bertha's last name Anderson could indicate Swedish parents or origin, as the -son ending is the Swedish equivalent to the Norwegian -sen ending. In Norway, then, Andersen is far more common than Anderson. However, regardless of this, Bertha could very well have been born in Norway.

My point is that her birth registration won't be found in any Norwegian parish if she actually was born in another country.

and his wife Helga Sofie of Tveter who lived in Moss.

Helga Sofie is listed as f. Tveter with the f being an abbreviation of the word født, meaning born. Tveter was her last name until she got married.

His grandchildren are looking for help to find more information and I am trying to help them. They are interested in the adopted parents and the birth parents.

The parish registration supplies some information about the parents:
Thure's occupation is kontorist (clerk)
Bertha's occupation is tp, abbreviation of Tjenestepige (maid servant)
Johannes' occupation is snedker (carpenter)
Helga Sofie's occupation is hstr, abbreviation of hustru (housewife)

Also it is stated in the parish, below Per Wærner's name, that "royal permission" for adoption was granted on Sep 3, 1923.

If a duplicate of this document exists in the National Archives of Norway, Bertha's place of birth might be found there.

[Tove Dahl Johansen]

Abelquist - a typical Swedish surname. - Tove DJ

[Anne Merete Bergane]

Maybe a shot in the dark. Birth year is not correctly but it is not uncommon in the 1910 census.
http://digitalarkivet.arkivverket.no/ft ... 6392046952
Mvh Anne

[Margit R Bakke]

Thank you all for your input. I have passed it on to the family.