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Albert George ELLESTAD

Male 1892 - 1959  (66 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Albert George ELLESTAD was born on 24 Jun 1892 in Liberty Twp, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin (son of Ole Andersen ELLESTAD and Marit Svendsdatter); died in 1959 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

    Notes:

    In the 1940 census, he and his family lived in the town of Liberty in Manitowoc County. He was a malter for a brewing company.

    Family/Spouse: Esther ZASTROW. Esther was born about 1901 in Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Carol M ELLESTAD was born on 7 Dec 1929 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin; died on 12 May 2011 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

    Albert married Ella VETTER on 2 Feb 1916 in Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Ella was born in 1895; died in 1918. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Edmund A ELLESTAD was born in 1916; died in 1984.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Ole Andersen ELLESTAD was born on 29 Sep 1845 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway (son of Anders Olsen and Eli Knudsdatter); died on 16 Aug 1929 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptism: 9 Nov 1845, Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

    Notes:

    In the 1900 census, he was a farmer in the town of Liberty in Manitowoc County. He and his wife came to the U.S. in 1881.

    Ole married Marit Svendsdatter about 1872 in Norway. Marit (daughter of Svend Knutsen BEITO and Marit Gulbrandsdatter HEDALEN) was born on 15 Jun 1849 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1917 in Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Marit Svendsdatter was born on 15 Jun 1849 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway (daughter of Svend Knutsen BEITO and Marit Gulbrandsdatter HEDALEN); died in 1917 in Wisconsin.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptism: 15 Jul 1849, Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

    Notes:

    In the 1865 census, she was a servant on the Ole Knudsen farm, Raabølle sondre, in Hegge in Øystre Slidre.

    Children:
    1. Mary ELLESTAD was born on 17 Jul 1876 in Valdres i Oppland, Norway; died on 14 May 1913 in Wisconsin.
    2. Theodore ELLESTAD was born on 5 Jun 1885 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin; died on 8 Jul 1943 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
    3. 1. Albert George ELLESTAD was born on 24 Jun 1892 in Liberty Twp, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin; died in 1959 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Anders Olsen was born about 1811 in Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway.

    Notes:

    Super Mega says he was born 8 Jan 1811 in Lommens, Vestre Slidre, and his parents were Ole Andersen Frigstad (1787-1814) and Sigri Nilsdatter Ellestad (1782-?).

    In Everett’s notes regarding the documentation of Anders’s birth, he points out that that Sigri’s father was Nils Haaversen Ellestad who died in 1797 and that that Nils H had a daughter Dorte who is listed as one of Anders’s baptismal sponsors on the Slidre birth record that Everett cites.

    Jim’s VS has that Nils H as Nils Håvolsen Ellestad(1728-1797), I8577, who had a daughter Sigrid, I8581, born on Ellestad 23/ in 1782. However Jim’s VS shows that Sigrid marrying Jøger Alvson (or Alf Jøgerson, it’s confusing) in about 1811 and doesn’t mention any marriage to an Ole Andersen. Jim also does not show Nils H as having a daughter Dorte.

    In the church book record for Anders’s son Ole’s birth in 1845, Anders’s farm name is Graavie.

    In the 1865 census, he and Eli and Ole and Tosten Evensen lived on Aasen in Lomen in Vestre Slidre. Anders was husmand med jord.

    Anders + Eli Knudsdatter. Eli (daughter of Knud Pedersen KVÅLE and Marit Knudsdatter HOVI) was born on 13 Jun 1802 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 7 Feb 1897 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Eli Knudsdatter was born on 13 Jun 1802 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway (daughter of Knud Pedersen KVÅLE and Marit Knudsdatter HOVI); died on 7 Feb 1897 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptism: 27 Jun 1802, Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

    Notes:

    According to Super Mega, she is the Eli Knudsdatter Graavi, I22060 in Jim’s Ellingboe tree. Her marriage to Anders is not shown, instead her outside-of-marriage liaison with Endre Iversen Ellingbø is shown, a liaison which led to the birth of Marith Endresdatter in December of 1829. In the church book record for that Marith’s birth, Eli is shown as Eli Knudsdatter De Thune.

    Jim’s notes for the Ellingboe tree entry for Eli, from a translation done by Everett Ellestad:

    “Many of these tiny patch farms have now been swallowed up by the landowners, and the cottages torn down. To some of these parcels of land, a bit more ground was added on, however, and sold to small farmers. Such a small farm was the little place called Åsen [the mountain ridge], which now has completely disappeared. [Note: this was written in 1911.] Many young people in the neighborhood have no idea even where Åsen was located. But, when I was a small boy, Åsen was a so-called resting place for all who traveled over Egge Ridge between Vang and Øystre Slidre [Valdres], so that there were often 30 horses standing along the road there at any one time. And, the little cottage was more than packed with drivers on their way home.

    “At Åsen lived Andris and Eli, and their son Ola and all three were 'clever people.' And, no matter how little they had, no one ever heard them complain even when they were on the verge of starvation. Ola, who was about as old as I, was a happy and kind fellow no matter how things were, and he was an expert singer. A song written by Peter Dass, called Happy was Halvar on the Ridge, was changed by him into Happy was Andris on the Ridge, and he sang so that it echoed over the valley. Eli, who often sat inside and mended, would 'sneak' out as soon as all the drivers had left and sweep up the little fodder remaining on the ground there, and in this way, the sole cow they had also got something to live on.

    “Andris at Åsen was a good worker and good at doing things, no matter what, if he only got a little food in his stomach. Since he was of small stature and thinly built, and often hungry, he often used to say about himself: "It's not my muscles doing the work, it's the food." But, it was amazing how many stones and rocks he moved up there on the ridge overlooking the valley. And, although Andris had toiled until late in the evening [all his life], it was not very long before the place called Åsen was no more.”



    EXCERPT:

    Gamalt fraa Valdres, Kristiania, H. Aschehough & Co., 1911. Retranslated and corrected, from the Valdres dialect of Norwegian, by Everett M. Ellestad, 23 Sept., 1989. New revisions 8 August, 1991 and 22 March, 1995, and (updated) 13 November, 1996.

    Baptism:
    Hegge, Lomen, Rogne, Røn, Slidre, or Volbu

    Children:
    1. 2. Ole Andersen ELLESTAD was born on 29 Sep 1845 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 16 Aug 1929 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

  3. 6.  Svend Knutsen BEITO was born on 6 Feb 1830 in Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway (son of Knud Knudsen BERG and Ingri Svendsdatter); died in 1880 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptism: 13 Mar 1830, Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

    Notes:

    In most of the trees on Ancestry, he is called Svend Knudsen Vaarum Beito.

    In the 1865 census, he is owner of the Raabølles Hagen farm in Hegge in Øystre Slidre.

    Birth:
    Beito i Hegge i Øystre S

    Svend + Marit Gulbrandsdatter HEDALEN. Marit (daughter of Gulbrand Nielsen HEDALEN and Kari Tollefsdatter VAARUM BEITO) was born on 2 Feb 1830 in Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1926 in Nelson County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Marit Gulbrandsdatter HEDALEN was born on 2 Feb 1830 in Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway (daughter of Gulbrand Nielsen HEDALEN and Kari Tollefsdatter VAARUM BEITO); died in 1926 in Nelson County, North Dakota.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptism: 13 Mar 1830, Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

    Notes:

    dwfrench1 calls her Marit Gulbrandsdatter Robøle.

    Children:
    1. 3. Marit Svendsdatter was born on 15 Jun 1849 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1917 in Wisconsin.
    2. Kari Svendsdatter HEDALEN was born on 23 Mar 1863 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 26 Mar 1909 in Walsh County, North Dakota.


Generation: 4

  1. 10.  Knud Pedersen KVÅLE was born on 17 May 1770 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway (son of Peder Jonsen KVÅLE and Dorte Kristiansdatter DAL); died on 28 Feb 1825 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway.

    Notes:

    Kaarstad is his farm name in the birth record for his daughter Eli. Kårstad is a farm in Vestre Slidre. Super Mega shows him as born 4 Nov 1768 on Qvale in Vang.

    In the 1801 census, he is Knud Pedersen, age 30, farmer on Houge Nedre in Lommens Annex, Slidre. His wife is Marit Knudsdatter, age 21 (she is his 2nd wife) and they have two children, Knud 3, and Peder, 2.

    Håkon Pedersen, I10304 in Jim’s VS, born on Kårstad 10/ in Vestre Slidre, may be Knud’s brother.

    Birth:
    Jean Rogers

    Died:
    Houge

    Knud + Marit Knudsdatter HOVI. Marit (daughter of Knud Olsen GRAAVI and Elen (Eli) Olesdatter) was born in 1769 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 11.  Marit Knudsdatter HOVI was born in 1769 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway (daughter of Knud Olsen GRAAVI and Elen (Eli) Olesdatter).

    Notes:

    Super Mega calls her Marit Knudsdatter Hovi and says she was born 29 Aug 1769 to Knud Olsen Graavi (1730-1810) and Elen Olsdatter Magistad (1733-?).

    The French Family Tree agrees.

    Birth:
    Hovie i Røen

    Children:
    1. 5. Eli Knudsdatter was born on 13 Jun 1802 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 7 Feb 1897 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway.

  3. 12.  Knud Knudsen BERG

    Knud + Ingri Svendsdatter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 13.  Ingri Svendsdatter
    Children:
    1. 6. Svend Knutsen BEITO was born on 6 Feb 1830 in Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1880 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway.

  5. 14.  Gulbrand Nielsen HEDALEN was born in 1799 in Oppland, Norway.

    Notes:

    In the 1801 census he is probably the Gulbrand Nielssen, age 2, son of Niels Gulbrandsen, 44, and Kari Erichsdotter, 30, living on Raabøle, Hægge annex, in Slidre.

    Super Mega, as well as jrtelander, says he was born 11 Jul 1779 in Øystre Slidre and died there on 27 Jan 1862. His parents were Niels Gulbrandsen Hedalen (1749-1815) and Guri Hansdatter (1752-?). That family lived on Hedalen in Hægge in Slidre in the 1801 census. Niels was a husmann med jord. Gulbrand was a soldier.

    Gulbrand + Kari Tollefsdatter VAARUM BEITO. Kari was born in 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 15.  Kari Tollefsdatter VAARUM BEITO was born in 1800.

    Notes:

    Super Mega says that she was born in Øystre Slidre on 23 Mar 1794 to Tollef Tollefsen Fystro (1748-?) and Alis Tostensdatter Eikerbacke (1750-?).

    That family, with Tollev shown as age 69, lived on Lie in Hægge in Slidre in the 1801 census. Tollev was a husmand med jord.

    Children:
    1. 7. Marit Gulbrandsdatter HEDALEN was born on 2 Feb 1830 in Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1926 in Nelson County, North Dakota.