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AntonH
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USA
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Posted - 25/06/2022 :  20:27:35  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Wife and mother emigrated under Rafstad to Pipestone Minnesota

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/8/pe00000000084377

Edited by - AntonH on 25/06/2022 20:28:14
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AntonH
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USA
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Posted - 25/06/2022 :  20:35:56  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Ole as Ruffstead with wife Sena and mother in Pipestone, Minnesota.

Ole Ruffstead
in the Minnesota, U.S., Territorial and State Censuses, 1849-1905
Name: Ole Ruffstead
Age: 50
Census Date: 1895
County: Pipestone
Locality: Pipestone
Birth Location: Norway
Gender: Male
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1845
Race: White
Line: 2
Roll: V290_82

https://www.familysearch.org/search/ark:/61903/1:1:MQDS-HV8


Ole Rapstad
Census • Minnesota State Census, 1905

https://www.familysearch.org/search/ark:/61903/1:1:SP3G-XL5

Ole Refstad
Census • United States Census, 1910

https://www.familysearch.org/search/ark:/61903/1:1:M2P9-B9N



Edited by - AntonH on 25/06/2022 20:43:08
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AntonH
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USA
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Posted - 25/06/2022 :  21:05:42  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Wife of Ole in 1905 Census

Serneoa Rapstad
in the Minnesota, U.S., Territorial and State Censuses, 1849-1905
Name: Serneoa Rapstad
Age: 65
Census Date: 3 Jun 1905
County: Pipestone
Locality: Pipestone Ward 2
Birth Location: Norway
Gender: Female
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1840
Race: White
Father's Birth Location: Norway
Mother's Birth Location: Norway
Line: 16
Roll: MNSC_142

https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/3054567:1058?tid=&pid=&queryId=5b62ebdcf06196aaa0faec6e19438716&_phsrc=kEs5&_phstart=successSource
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AntonH
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Posted - 25/06/2022 :  22:52:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Cpl Jens Antonuis Rostad
in the Canada, Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Name: Cpl Jens Antonuis Rostad
Birth Date: 1876
Death Date: 22 Feb 1956
Cemetery: Brookside Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Has Bio?: N

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111510505/jens-antonuis-rostad?_gl=1*s6yx5j*_ga*MTI4NzAwNTg2My4xNjU1MzI1OTE4*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*MTY1NjE4NjUzMi40NC4xLjE2NTYxOTAzMTAuNjA.

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AntonH
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Posted - 25/06/2022 :  22:57:49  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Inga Rostad and two children emigration in 1903 to Canada

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/8/pe00000000538042

Inga Rostad
in the UK and Ireland, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960
Name: Inga Rostad
Gender: Female
Departure Age: 24
Birth Date: abt 1879
Departure Date: 29 Oct 1903
Departure Port: England
Ship Name: Tunisian
Shipping Line: Allan Line
Search Ship Database: Search for the Tunisian in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Destination Port: Quebec, Canada
Master: A H Vipond

Edited by - AntonH on 25/06/2022 22:58:37
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AntonH
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Posted - 25/06/2022 :  23:01:47  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Inga Rostad
in the Canada, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1865-1935
Name: Inga Rostad
Gender: Female
Arrival Age: 14
Birth Year: abt 1889
Departure Port: Liverpool, England
Arrival Date: 7 Nov 1903
Arrival Port: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Vessel: Tunisian

https://u.cubeupload.com/AntonHagelee/ScreenShot20220625at.png
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AntonH
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Posted - 25/06/2022 :  23:05:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Jens Antonius Olsen Rostad emigrated in 1902

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/8/pe00000000527360

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TWheeler
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Canada
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Posted - 26/06/2022 :  05:11:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thank you all so much for all this research and information! I am so grateful for all of your hard work. My sheepish apologies for getting the date of Jens' death wrong (my bad memory). I had located some of these Ole Evensens but had no idea how to connect the dots. Ole Evensen Rofstad seems like a very promising lead given the occupation!

I wasn't aware that Jens was illegitimate, but the family story was that he was sent south to work (I now wonder if for military school) at 14. I'm guessing Jens always lived with his maternal family and perhaps my great great great grandmother did get Ole's last name wrong (she is a bit of an enigma to me because if I was reading records correctly it looked like she only married once at the age of 59. Very curious about her life). I had never heard of Jens having any other family, and it's fascinating to think his father may have immigrated just down to the South of where he did, and we have some distant relations there.
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jkmarler
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USA
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Posted - 28/06/2022 :  14:32:20  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Unmarked burials in Pipestone county, Minnesota under the name Rolfstad:

Gunwold (might be Gunhild)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47562812/gunwold-rolfstad

Ole:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47562813/ole-rolfstad

Synneva:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47562814/synneva-rolfstad
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jkmarler
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USA
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Posted - 28/06/2022 :  14:44:37  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Ole and family in 1885 census:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-D181-W7?i=13&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMQF8-G5F

Ole and family in 1895 census:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-64L7-Y6S?i=31&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMQDS-HV8

Ole and family in 1900 census:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6824-RHK?i=2&cc=1325221&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AM93C-SF6

This census also says that Sena / Sophie/ Synneva has had one child and one child is living, likewise Ole's mother Gunild 1 born / 1 living.

Edited by - jkmarler on 28/06/2022 14:51:38
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ToreL
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Norway
797 Posts

Posted - 28/06/2022 :  21:58:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Here is a clipping from volume 2 of Melhusboka. In contradiction with what the above census says, it tells that Gunhild Johansdatter and Even Larsen in fact had two sons; Ola/Ole and then Lars, born in 1847 and died young. According to the book, Even Larsen's father Lars Nilsen had moved in from another area. Tracing his ancestry would probably be quite tricky.

The book also reports on Ole Evensen Rofstad's son of 1877, but says nothing of any son born in 1876. (But one wouldn't expect the author to study church books for locations three or four hundred kms further North.)

Edited by - ToreL on 28/06/2022 22:10:25
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TWheeler
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Canada
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Posted - 29/06/2022 :  03:40:43  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I am so fascinated by how mobile all these people seem to have been. Was this common at the time? Again, thank you ToreL, AntonH and jkmarler, I am so amazed by everything you are finding. This is really extraordinary.
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AntonH
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Posted - 29/06/2022 :  17:18:35  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Using a small sample size of one. In my family the answer would be not not until the 1800's. Before the 1800's you could usually find the family members living in the same parish for many many years. Then I imagine the population growth in Norway and the lack of any new land to farm caused a lot of movement.
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jkmarler
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Posted - 29/06/2022 :  21:44:55  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The overall historic push west in America has been divided this way: The first 200 years after colonization by white Europeans saw the wild boundaries up to the Appalachian mountains. The next 100 years saw the spread of settlers over the whole rest of contiguous US to the Pacific Ocean largely due to railroads and canals, i.e. technology.

One of my great grandfathers was born in western Illinois in 1878. He died on the west coast in Washington in 1947, one generation. It was 4 generations before him to get the family from Massachusetts to western Illinois.
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AntonH
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Posted - 29/06/2022 :  22:35:57  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
TWheeler, you did not say in your question if the mobility was for the people in Norway or in America. I answered for Norway and I assume Jackie was answering for America.

Here is some more information on mobility in Norway.

On my grandmothers side one of the oldest know relatives was Knud Ødyne born about 1574 and lived in Grindheim parish, Vest-Agder. The next six generations also lived in Grindheim parish. When my great great grandfather came along in 1811, he was fourth in the line of boys. He moved east to the next County {Fylke} and his grand daughter my grandmother moved to America.
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