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Marit Olsdatter ELLINGBØE

Female 1835 - 1885  (50 years)


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  • Name Marit Olsdatter ELLINGBØE 
    Birth 5 Apr 1835  Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Baptism 10 May 1835  Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 27 Dec 1885  Kandiyohi County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 2 Jan 1886  Sunburg, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Norway Lake
    Notes 
    • She is Marit Olsdatter Lajord (#I22262) in Jim’s Valdres Slekt tree. In that tree, her parents are Ola Christopherson Kvåle (1809-1903) and Berit Torsteinsdatter Kattevold (1821-1885).

      She is Marit Olsdatter Qvale, #I8255, in Jim’s Ellingboe tree. In that tree, her parents are Ole Christopherson Qvale (1809-1903) and Kjersti Simonsdatter Søyne (1812-1864).

      The Ellingboe tree record is the more recently modified, suggesting that it is more authoritative. The Vang birth record confirms that Marith was the daughter of the unmarried couple Ole Christopherson Qvale and Kirsti Simonsdatter Lajord.

      Jim’s notes for Marit in his Ellingboe tree:

      Marit was the illegitimate daughter of Ole Christopherson Kvåle and Kirsti Simonsdatter Lajord (or Søyne), according to the Vang church books, but I could not find anything about this in Anders Frøholm's Vang A.

      The emigration records for Vang show that on 22 Mar 1862, Marith Olsdotter Ellingböe, widow, age 27, intended to travel to America with her two sons, Ole Olson (age 6) and Jörgen Olson (age 4). Marit was married in 1857 to Ola Jørnsson (born 1831, died between 1859 and 1862), who farmed a piece of land called "Plassen, Nørre Plassen or Jørnplassen, under Ellingbø, Nigarden, no. 33/1.”

      According to the 1885 Minnesota census, her son Andrew was born in Ontario, although Arta Juneau believes that he was born soon after Marit's arrival in Northfield, Minnesota, where her brother Tosten Quamme was already living. Apparently she never remarried and had a difficult life, dying in her sixties.

      Marith, 27 a widow, Ole, 6, and Jørgen, 4, left Vang for Amerika on March 22, 1862, through Bergen. This was the same day that Thrond Iverson Ellingboe (#3164) left Vang for America with his family. In Marit’s emigration record there is no mention of Andrew. In a Norway Lake church record, Marit, as Ole’s mother, is reported to have come to Goodhue County in 1862 and to Norway Lake in 1868.

      Could not find an entry for Andrew’s birth in the Vang parish record.

      In the 1870 census, Mary and her three boys are living on the Cal Johnson farm in Benson Twp, Chippewa County, Minnesota.

      In the 1875 Minnesota census, she is Mary Olsen, 29, living with her three boys in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County.

      In the 1880 census, Marit and her three boys are living on the V. J. Finstad farm in Kerkhoven Twp. George, 21, is “teaching.” Also living on that farm were Marit Ellingboe, a 46 year-old widow, “housekeeper”, and Marit’s two sons, Ole, 23, and Andew, 18. All four of these Ellingboes were born in Norway.

      In the 1885 census she is living in Kerkhoven Twp with her sons Ole, 28, and Anders, 22, as well as Erland Johnson, 21, of Norway. Anders is shown as born in Ontario.

      There is a gravestone for Marith O. Ellingboe in the Sunburg cemetery that provides the 1885 death date.

      She was a charter member of West Norway Lake Lutheran Church.
    Person ID I6241  Don Carlson's Tree
    Last Modified 21 Mar 2023 

    Father Ole Christophersson QVÅLE,   b. 1809, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1903, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 94 years) 
    Mother Kirsti Simonsdatter LAJORD,   b. 1812, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1864 (Age 52 years) 
    Family ID F8058  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Ola Jørgensson ELLINGBØ,   b. 1831, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1862, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 30 years) 
    Marriage 20 Oct 1857  Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Ole O ELLINGBOE,   b. 8 Sep 1856, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Sep 1929, Kerkhoven, Swift County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
     2. Jørgen (George) O ELLINGBØ,   b. 31 Jan 1859, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Aug 1926, Churchbridge, Saskatchewan, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
    Family ID F4039  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 11 May 2007 

    Family 2 Unknown Anders 
    Children 
     1. Andrew O ELLINGBØ,   b. 24 Jun 1862, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Jul 1947, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
    Family ID F17059  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Sep 2016