Genealogy for the Larsen family
1.
Generation Lars Larsen Arnegårdeie and Ragne Olsdatter Espeset.
2. Generation Lars Larsen Arnegårdeie - Mulleplass and Barbro Hansdatter Viken.
Lars and Barbro went to Norderhov parish and stayed there as farm workers. They obviously knew each other and spend a lot of time together while their stay in Norderhov. So on 28th of December 1827 they was married in the main Norderhov church just before the first child was born on Sandsæter farm. Baptize in the same church 9th of March 1828. Then on the 13th of April they registered in the church book leaving for home to Nes parish. They did live a short time on Husemoen farm before they went back to the Bakken farm to be together with his mother and father. Lars and Barbro is the mother and father of Hans left for America and the grandfather/grandmother to Lars, Knud, Thorvald and Hans also left for America.
3. Generation
Ragne Larsdatter Mulleplass was born 15th of January 1828 on the farm Sandsæter in Norderhov parish - Ringerike. Ragne later married to Ole Knudsen Nybråten and settled on the Nybråten farm in Rukkedalen - Nes parish.
Hans Larsen Mulleplass was born on 30th of October 1829 on a small farm called Husemoen just after his parents came back from Ringerike area. Hans later married to Ingeborg Christoffersdatter Veslegaard from Tunhovd area in Numedal. The got married in 1865 and settled on a smal farm called Sønstegård Lien. They got a daughter Barbro in 1865. The income and life on this farm was very hard and after listening to many of Ingeborg's family members that left Tunhovd and went to America the whole family left for America in 1871. They came to Belvidere Twp., Goodhue County in Minnesota where Hans worked as a millworker. They got 2 more children there: Jorgine (Jennie) and Louis. In 1879 they bought a farm in Trenton Twp., Pierce County in Wisconsin and went there for the rest of their life.
Margit Larsdatter Mulleplass was born on 17th of September 1831 in the Bakken farm . She live on the Mulleplass place all her life. Her last years she spen at the old home in Nesbyen. Margit got one child that lived together with her mother.
Lars Larsen Mulleplass was born 28th of September 1836 on the Bakken farm. This was a cottager place under the farm Arnegård by this time. Below the story continue about Lars and his family.
Kristen Larsen Mulleplass was born 25th of March 1839 on the Bakken farm. He married Ingebjørg Kristensdatter Kastet from Gol parish. They lived all their life in Kastet and got 8 children.
Lars Larsen Mulleplass and Kari Nubsdatter Grimsgårdeie - Dokken
Lars married 30th of April 1863 in Nes church with Kari Nubsdatter Grimsgårdeie. Kari was born 5 of August 1839. They are the father and mother of the Larsen - Dokken family. Kari was born and raised in Dokken farm and Lars lived just a little higher aabove Dokken in Ellingbråten. The first two children they got before the marriage. Not very often it happened that a couple got 2 children before they married. I have a feeling that the life was hard and they looked for a way to get married. They both lived separately till 1863. In 1874 they bought the farm Dokken - or they bought it from Kari's parents.
4. Generation
Lars
Larsen Dokken
was born in
Dokken as the first son 29th of May 1859. Baptized 13th of June 1859 in Nes church.
The confirmation took place 7th of June 1876. In the census in 1875 he was not
living at home but was working as a farmworker on Jørgenmoen farm in Nes.
On 13th of May 1878 he was registrated in the church book in Nes parish as emigrant
to Christiania (Oslo). I have been looking through the emigration protocol in
Christiania by this time a lot. There is no sign of Lars this year or after going
to America. But I did find one record showing a person - same age going to America.
This Lars was going from Christiania with the steamer Hero on 16th of May 1879 -
destination was Moorhead, MN. This is the closest I have come to follow Lars out of Norway.
As of today I know much more about Lars. I have come in contact with Vi Kaetterhenry
in Menominee, Michigan where Thorwald moved to in 1950's she is the daughter of
Lars first son Thorwald. Lars went to Milwaukee and stayed there all his life.
He got married in Milwaukee 5th of September 1891 to Henrietta Christine Jacobsen
also from Norway. They got 5 sons: Thorwald born 22nd of June 1894, Alfred born
7th of December 1898, Elmer born 13th of January 1900, Lewis born 1903 and William
born later. I have no data of him. Lars died 21st of October 1918 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Any further help on Lars family will be much
appreciated.
B arbo Larsdatter Dokken |
Knud
Larsen Dokken
was born in Ellingbråten 26th of May 1866.
Baptized 1st of July 1866 in Nes church. Godfathers: Thomas Thomassen Thoengen,
Kari Eriksdatter Thoengen, Halvor Knudsen Braaten, Kristen Larsen (uncle)and Margit
Larsdatter Bakken (aunt).
Knud was confirmated 1st of May 1881 in Nes church. Then nothing more is recorded
in Nes parish about Knud.
I have been able to find him in Christiania - in the Emigration protocol of 1883.:
Record nr.: 677 - 21.3.1883 - Knud Larsen - Worker 17 years
- Nes in Hallingdal - Company Krantz - Destination Milwaukee - On the steamer
ANGELO - departure 23.3 - 1883 - Ticket paid for.
The trip is suppose to go to England and then to America. I really don't know anything
from USA except of a small hope of something like Meninomee. But I am not sure
about the county or the city(MI.)But now I know from Vi Kaetterhenry in Meninomee
that her father talked very much about Knud. I need to follow this line more later.
I believe he and Lars had close contact in Milwaukee where they lived.
Knud died before 1925 when the mother Kari died. From the probate court in Nes it
says that the 4 children they tried to contact them. The only written is that
Lars and Knud was both dead. They was both married in USA. Then it was written that
Knud was supposed to leave one girl behind him - KARI. This was all the family knew
about Lars and Knud.
Thora
Larsdatter Dokken
was born 19th of February 1874 in Ellingbråten.
In this time the family had bought the farm Dokken and was building houses on the
new place. She was baptized 15th of March in Nes church.
Godfathers was: Ole Nilsen, Randvei Larsdatter, Sigri Olsdatter Thodok, Kari Syversdatter
Spankop og Ole Ellingbråten. Further information from the church record. Father 38
years and mother 37 years and married in 1864. In the 1900 census Thora is still
living at home and she is working with seamstress.
Hans Larsen
Dokken was born 16th of April 1877 in Dokken farm. Baptized in Nes
church 21st of May 1877. Witness was:
Thor Helgesen Brattested, Knud Ellefsen, Ellef Knudsen, Birgit Jonsdatter and
Sunnøf Nilsedatter Bottofsletten. The parents is at
the age of 48 and 50 year.And as married 15 years ago (1862).
Hans married a widow Birgit Levorsdatter Hytta in
Nes and they got two sons while they stayed in Norway. They
left for America in 1911 and went to Hatton to Hans brother Thorvald. Together they
left for Canada in 1912 and settled around Regina. We have today family in
North Dakota and Saskatchewan. Family names as Hagen from Ål and Bråten
here in Nes are also related.
Thorvald
Larsen Dokken was born
23rd April
1881 in Dokken. Baptized in Nes churc 15th of May 1881. Witness was: Nils Nilsen Kastet,
Kristi Olsdatter Dokken, Knud Olsen Vollen, Ellef Knudsen Bottolfsletten and
Barbo Knudsdatter Østløkken.
In the Census of 1900 is Thorvald a
farmworker on the farm Tollefsgård. But that was not Thorvald's future. In
1902 he desided to leave for America where he had two other brothers.
Nicolai
Larsen Dokken was born in Dokken as the last of the
family on 21st of November 1883. Baptized in Nes Church 1st of January 1884.
Witness was: Helge Helgesen Stupa, Anne Johnsdatter Stupa, Lars Helgesen Brattested,
Ellef Knudsen Bottolfsletten and Ambjør Knudsdatter Bottolfsletten.
The Census of 1900 say he worked as farmworker on the farm Majormoen, he lived
at home in Dokken. About grandfather you can tell a lot. But
the humor and the glimpse in the eye he was famous for.
He was married the first time to Anne Bergo
(f. ). They got 2 children. At the last birth Anne died and
grandfather had to find himself another woman to take care about the small ones. Then in 1919
he remarreid to the young girl Marie Fluto. Grandmother was
from the big family Fluto in Liodden and here family you can
trace back to Vassfaret what is known for it's wilderness today. They
got 10 children.
A view of Nesbyen from above Dokken farm as it is today in 2001. The big factory is one the neighbor field of the Dokken farm It is nothing left except of the buildings on the farm today. I have enclosed another one taken around 1910 and the picture is take from above the Velta farm that Barbro lived on in her first marriage. T he churc is up left and the new bridge build when the railroad came is in the front. The old home can be seen to the left of Østenfor Hotel that is on this side of the bridge.
A view from Nesbyen 27th. of October 2001.
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