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Jdkrags
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 Posted - 25/08/2020 : 07:28:16
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| Hi all! I was wondering if I could get some help finding a passenger list for this couple, married on 29 April 1855 in Lærdal, Sogn og Fjordane. I am clear on the lineage of both already, but I can’t find when they came over. They settled and died in Crawford County, Wisconsin. Originally I had the wife of Anders Torsteinsen Seim as a Anna Jensdatter Seim, but I was incorrect. His wife is Anna Svendsdatter Seim, as is seen in the marriage record. Anything helps, thanks again! |
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Hopkins
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 25/08/2020 : 14:10:51
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What sources have you already checked?
US censuses for the listing of what year they came to US?
Lærdal parish records of persons leaving?
Any of the Lærdal Bygdebok volumes?
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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ToreL
Advanced member
Norway
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Posted - 25/08/2020 : 21:31:07
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| Seim farm is located in Årdal, which belonged to Lærdal parish at the time. According to Årdal bygdebook, they emigrated in 1856, together with their son Torstein, born 1855. They were listed in the church book as leaving the parish on April 16 1856. (#138--#140) |
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 25/08/2020 : 21:33:35
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Looks like the two Anders and Anna died before 1900.
Anders died in 1864 if this record is correct.
Anders Torsteinsson Sime
in the U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Name: Anders Torsteinsson Sime
Birth Date: 1830
Death Date: 1864
Cemetery: Utica Lutheran Church Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Mount Sterling, Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States of America
Has Bio?: Y
Spouse: Anna Sime
Children: Betsey Halverson
Tosten T. Sime
Inga Helland
John T Sime
Anna in 1891
Name: Anna Sime
Birth Date: 16 Feb 1827
Birth Place: Norway
Death Date: 3 Apr 1891
Death Place: Freeman, Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States of America
Cemetery: Utica Lutheran Church Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Mount Sterling, Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States of America
Has Bio?: N
Spouse: Anders Torsteinsson Sime
Children: Betsey Halverson
Tosten T. Sime
Inga Helland
John T Sime |
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 25/08/2020 : 21:41:58
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One of the sons Tosten T Seim lists arrival date as 1857 in 1900 and 1910 Census and 1858 in the 1920 Census. According to Family Tree they had three children in Norway before 1857, two of which died young. Seems as if they came over with one child. Tosten T Sime born about 1855.
If they came over as early as 1857/1858 it will be very difficult to find the emigration record. Sparse records for leaving Norway in that time frame. No records yet for arrival in Canada. Records do exist for some other places such as New York.
Here is a link to parish records for out-migration for Lærdal beginning with 1856.
https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20070305680182
Looking through the list, I find them leaving Lærdal in 1856
Numbers 138, 139, and 140.
https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20070305680185 |
Edited by - AntonH on 25/08/2020 22:02:05 |
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Jdkrags
Medium member
USA
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Posted - 25/08/2020 : 23:50:35
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| Yep that’s them! I will check to try and find what ship they came over on. They should have departed from Bergen if my speculation is correct. |
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ToreL
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Norway
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Posted - 26/08/2020 : 11:37:39
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On the same day, April 16 1856, 132 people are registered in the Lærdal ministerial book as emigrating to America. The departures from Bergen that year listed at this site all went to Quebec:
http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_year.asp?ye=1856 |
Edited by - ToreL on 26/08/2020 11:40:19 |
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ToreL
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Norway
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Posted - 26/08/2020 : 12:06:47
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Here is a list of "Confirmerede" at West Prairie Lutheran Church, Vernon County, Wisconsin. If the Andrew Andersen Seim right in the middle of the list from 1872 was a son of your Anders and Anna, he would have been "made in Norway".
It looks like these same church books also record the burial of Anders sr., so chances are that the younger Andrew was indeed a son. The book goes back to the 1850s and contains baptisms in 1856 and surrounding years, but with no trace of Anders jr., so his birth was probably elsewhere, perhaps in Dane county:
Here is some info on an apparanet daughter of Anders and Anna, born in Dane County, Wisconsin in 1859. And Here (seventh biography) is something about Tosten, confirming the start in Dane County.
You may know this already; I'm reporting it in case you don't.
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 27/08/2020 : 18:22:25
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Nils, the older brother to Anders Torsteinsen Seim, was the first person to emigrate from Årdal.
Together with wife Mari Tomasdotter Årebru (1821-1895), daughter Ingeleiv Nilsdotter Seim (1840-1912), son Torstein Nilsson Seim (1842-1917) and Nils' brother Tomas Torsteinson (1827- ), they emigrated from Seim in Årdal and left Bergen May 8th 1844 on the Bark "Juno". They settled in Cottage Grove, Dane County, Wisconsin.
Nils Torsteinsen Seim (1812-1878)
Anders & family likely left Bergen on one of these ships in 1856:
Bark Juno, Capt. Huun Bergen Apr 30 - Quebec Jul 05
Bark Columbus, Capt. Larsen Bergen May 05 - Quebec Jul 02
Bark Apollo, Capt. Zimmerman Bergen May 05 - Quebec Jun 30
Brig Vikingen, Capt. Ellertsen Bergen May 05 - Quebec Jun 30
Brig Jørgen Brunchorst, Capt. Henriksen Bergen May 06 - Quebec Jun 17
Ship Hebe, Capt. Hansen Bergen May 12 - Quebec Jun 14
Brig Hakon Adelsten, Capt. Simonsen Bergen May 15 - Quebec Jul 12
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