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Gordon Anderson

Farm names

Legg inn av Gordon Anderson » 20 feb 2005 19:36:54

In the records of Hvaler, Østfold, Norway (1700's) I see many farm names
such as Seylöe, Sannöe, Spier, Haugge, Ørdal, etc. etc. But I see no farm
names reflecting the names of people who lived there. Such as Pedersen,
Jacobsen, Nilsen, etc. Do the farm names predate the system of adding "sen"
after a fathers first name? Or are the farm names a descriptive name or term
of some sort? Thanks for any assistance.

Kelly

Re: Farm names

Legg inn av Kelly » 20 feb 2005 20:55:45

Gordon Anderson wrote:
In the records of Hvaler, Østfold, Norway (1700's) I see many farm
names such as Seylöe, Sannöe, Spier, Haugge, Ørdal, etc. etc. But I
see no farm names reflecting the names of people who lived there.
Such as Pedersen, Jacobsen, Nilsen, etc. Do the farm names predate
the system of adding "sen" after a fathers first name? Or are the
farm names a descriptive name or term of some sort? Thanks for any
assistance.

http://www.dokpro.uio.no/rygh_ng/rygh_info.html

Gives you some information about Norwegian farm names. They were usually a
descriptive name of the place.
http://www.dokpro.uio.no/perl/navnegran ... 12@2609=on
This is what he says about Ørdal, for instance, it's connected to a river in
the region.

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Kelly

etos

Re: Farm names

Legg inn av etos » 20 feb 2005 21:27:12

"Gordon Anderson" <ganderson@webjogger.net> wrote in message
news:4218dade_3@newsfeed.slurp.net...
In the records of Hvaler, Østfold, Norway (1700's) I see many farm names
such as Seylöe, Sannöe, Spier, Haugge, Ørdal, etc. etc. But I see no farm
names reflecting the names of people who lived there. Such as Pedersen,
Jacobsen, Nilsen, etc. Do the farm names predate the system of adding
"sen" after a fathers first name? Or are the farm names a descriptive name
or term of some sort? Thanks for any assistance.

Pedersen i a "fathers name", where "sen" is the same as "son". Thus Pedersen
is the "son" of Peder. The farm name often was added after the fathers name.

eirik

Olaf

Farm names

Legg inn av Olaf » 20 feb 2005 21:30:03

Hi Gordon!
Farm names shoule be considered an address that were later taken as
surnames.
Maybe this will help:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com ... aming.html
Olaf


In the records of Hvaler, Østfold, Norway (1700's) I see many farm names
such as Seylöe, Sannöe, Spier, Haugge, Ørdal, etc. etc. But I see no farm
names reflecting the names of people who lived there. Such as Pedersen,
Jacobsen, Nilsen, etc. Do the farm names predate the system of adding "sen"
after a fathers first name? Or are the farm names a descriptive name or term
of some sort? Thanks for any assistance.

John Reindl

Re: Farm names

Legg inn av John Reindl » 22 feb 2005 02:25:59

Hi Gordon ~

The Norwegian naming system in the 1700's usually consisted of three names:

1. The first name
2. The patronymic name (such as Pedersen or Nilsdatter)
3. The name of the farm on which the person now lives

The first two names don't change during a person's life, but the farm
name can change every time the person moves to a different farm,
although I sometimes see people refer to a person by the name of the
farm at which they were born.

The farm names cause a bit of quandary for genealogists, and this and
other email lists have had discussions of which farm name to use when
doing a family tree or database.

Hope that this helps,

John Reindl, Genealogist
Nord Hedmark og Hedemarken Lag

Gordon Anderson wrote:
In the records of Hvaler, Østfold, Norway (1700's) I see many farm names
such as Seylöe, Sannöe, Spier, Haugge, Ørdal, etc. etc. But I see no farm
names reflecting the names of people who lived there. Such as Pedersen,
Jacobsen, Nilsen, etc. Do the farm names predate the system of adding "sen"
after a fathers first name? Or are the farm names a descriptive name or term
of some sort? Thanks for any assistance.


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