information on Harold Edmund Hanson
alhanson	Hi! I am searching for information on my Hanson family background: my great-grandfather - Harald Edmund Hanson (also called Edmund H. Hanson) -- was born on July 20,1859 in Norway. He emigrated to Canada from Norway in 1880, leaving on April 2 and landing in Richebucto N.B. He was one of only two passengers on a ship so I imagine it was a cargo ship. I do not know where he was born in Norway, where he left from or what the name of the ship was that he travelled on. He eventually settled in the Leamington/Wheatley area in Ontario, Canada where he ran a dry-goods store "Hanson's" and raised 5 children - Ada (Waghorne), Ida (McGregor), Hans, Minda and Sally -- baby Harald died at 4 months. Edmund died in 1921 and is buried in Fairview Cemetary, Wheatley, Kent Co., Ontario. He was married to Gerhardine Alvide J. Hansen in Chatham on November 25 1884 -- after her arrival from Denmark (I think). Gerhardine was born on Nov 25 1859 and died in 1913. After 1921, Edmund's son -- Hans Gerhard -- took over running of the store in Wheatley. Hans and his wife Winnifred Moore from LaSalle (they were married on Jan 31, 1917) had two children: Gerhard Moore and Kathryn Loretto. Hans was born on July 18, 1888 and died died in the early 50s. Gerhard (my father) was born in Vulcan, Alberta on July 10, 1920 and died in Toronto on January 22, 1969. Kathryn (now Wilkinson) was born on August 9, 1923 in Wheatley and currently resides in Toronto. I would be grateful for any information on my family background you might have or come across. Thanks Anne Hanson
hasto	Hans Edmund Hansen was born 1859 on Skoie farm in Holum parish close to Mandal. He is listed on page 672 in Holum bygdebok (farm history book) as son of Hans Salvesen Skoie (1809-1863) and Inger Marie Markusdatter Ro, b. 1815. The book says Harald died in Canada. In 1865 census of Skoie in Holum his mother is a widow: http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=f61020&gardpostnr=318&personpostnr=1377&merk=1377#ovre I have his parents in my records: http://gw.geneanet.org/index.php3?b=hasto&lang=en;p=hans;n=skoie;oc=1 I think we are about 6th cousins. I am corresponding with an American who is descendant of his brother Martin. Hjalmar Carl I think was not a brother. He was a foster child in Mandal in 1865 census: http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=f61002.wc2&gardpostnr=246&personpostnr=2005&merk=2005#ovre Familysearch: HJALMAR KARL Christening: 05 JUN 1850 Mandal, Vest-Agder, Father: HENRIK CLASSEN Mother: ELISE TØNNESEN He probably was with his aunt in 1865.
Jerry	Hi Anne, Good to read a note from someone in Lower Ontario, who had an ancestor that married in Chatham. Chatham was connected with the Underground Railroad, that helped slaves get to Canada in defiance of the "Fugitive Slave Act" and the Dred Scott Decision. I've read that in the late 1850s, when John Brown held an organizing meeting at Chatham, a third of that town's population were Afro-Americans. My great-grandfather Jacob Schaub was born near Stratford, Ontario, in 1840, of Alsatian descent. He came to the US in 1860 and settled at Decorah, Iowa. He joined the Union Army in 1861, when President Lincoln called for volunteers to fight the Southern Secession, even though he was still a British subject. When he returned from the war, he brought freed slaves with him. (John Brown's wife and daughter lived in a building next to where the Vesterheim Museum is now. I have heard of a possible Underground Railroad station at Rushford, Minnesota, too, besides the possible one in Decorah.) Jacob Schaub's wife, my great-grandmother, was Agnete Pedersdatter Vaerhaug, of Torpa, Norway. She also came to the Decorah area around 1860.
alhanson	I just got a big breakthrough last night by finding discovering some information on the birthplace of my g-grandfather and g-grandmother. My g-grandfather Harald E Hanson was born in Mandal, Norway in 1859. His wife Gerhardine Alvilda J. Hansen was born in Rudkobing, Denmark, Nov 25 1859. Her parents were Hans Hansen (born Sept 28, 1823 in Svendborg, Denmark) and Elise Tonnesen (born Oct 18, 1827) Does anyone have any other information about this family? Anne Hanson