Brief Life History of Ingeborg Knutsdatter
When Ingeborg Knutsdatter Melhus was born on 25 June 1775, in Melhus, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, her father, Knut Johannesen Holum, was 36 and her mother, Anna Arnesdatter Melhus, was 36. She married Botolv Olsen on 2 April 1793, in Aurland, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 15 October 1857, in Holo, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, at the age of 82.
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Family Time Line
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- Ættebok for Aurland vol II
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World Events (6)
1801 · 1801 Norwegian Census
It listed all family members living on each farm. Also those living in the cities.
1810 · Vaccinations
Royal order issued by the King of Norway and Denmark in 1810 required everyone to have a certificate of smallpox vaccination. This was also recorded in the Church records. 33
1825 · Sloopers
First organized group of emigrants to leave Norway. First emigration to America began with the Sloopers who left in an undersized sloop “Restauration” sailed from Stavanger, Norway on July 4th, 1825.
Name Meaning
Norwegian: habitational name from the name of several farmsteads in Trøndelag, from mel ‘middle’ + hus ‘house’, i.e. ‘the house (or farm) in the middle’.
Altered form of Norwegian Mjølhus: habitational name from any of the seven places (in Rogaland, for instance) named with Old Norse mjǫl ‘flour’ + hus ‘house’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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