Nils Andersen SOLLIEN

1844 - 1908  (63 years)

• Name	Nils Andersen SOLLIEN
  Birth	15 Jan 1844	Vardal, Oppland, Norway
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	11 Feb 1844	Vardal, Oppland, Norway
  	as Niels
  Death	1908	Iowa
  Burial	Fairview-Albaton Cemetery, Albaton, Monona County, Iowa
  	as Nels Solen
  Notes	In the 1865 Norwegian census, he was the 22 year-old Niels Andersen, an unmarried blacksmith, living with his parents, brother, and grandfather on Skikkelstadsæter (Rummet) in Hunds Annex, Vardal, Oppland. He was Nels Solon, a blacksmith in Fairview Twp, Monona County, Iowa, in the 1880 census. He was Nils Solien in Iowa’s 1885 census. He was still a blacksmith and was still living in Fairview Twp. In the 1900 census, he is Nels Sollien, 57, a farmer living with his wife Mathia, 56, in Fairview Twp. The couple had been married for 26 years and Mathia had had only the one child, still living. In a delayed birth record recorded in Iowa in 1942, an Oscar Solin claimed to have been born on 17 Sep 1892 in Albaton, Monona County, Iowa, to Nils O. Solien and Josephine Christianson. He offered as supporting evidence his baptismal record dated 16 Oct 1892. The ELCA birth records agree with this. The baptism was at the Skien Lutheran Church in Albaton. It must be a different Nils, however. The implication is that Nils and Josefine are married. A Nils Anderson Solien, age 22 from Vardal, is recorded as landing at Quebec in June of 1866. There are farms named Sollien (#11) and Sørlien (#42) in Vardal in Oppland. Find A Grave, in an entry created by “Gal Clark”, has him as the son of Anders Olsen Sollien and Martha Christianson. Except for getting the birth year wrong, the Find A Grave entry agrees with the birth record in the church book. That record shows the father’s farm as Skikkelstad.
  Person ID	I26322	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	13 Jul 2017

  
  

  Father	Anders Olsen SOLLIEN,   b. Abt 1812, Vardal, Oppland, Norway
  Mother	Marte Christiansdatter,   b. Abt 1811, Vardal, Oppland, Norway
  Family ID	F18482	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mathilda,   b. Abt 1845, Norway d. 1905, Iowa (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1874	Iowa
  Children	1. Martha Marie SOLLIEN,   b. 1875, Iowa d. 22 Dec 1903, Iowa (Age 28 years)
  Family ID	F18481	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Jul 2017