| jayhawk | I am trying to find out information about my husbands grandfather Thorvald Gorboe. Here is all I know. He was born December 16, 1848 either in or near Christiana. He had 2 sisters, Ada or Agnes and Martha. Martha's married name was Holter or Halter. Martha's daughter Signey lived in California and married a man by the name of Wodehouse. They had a resort in California called Capitola by the Sea. The story in the family has always been that his family were shipbuilders and he was on one of the ships going around a cape and a brother was washed overboard so Thorvald jumped ship [we think maybe in New Orleans] as he came up the Mississippi River. We think he arrived in Cairo and eventually married Agnes Shaw who later died. They had one son, Frederick Watermore Gorboe. His second wife was Harriet Wiley Brown and they had one daugher, Thelma Gorboe, who was
my husbands mother. He died in 1921 before my husband [who is deceased] was born. I have some letters writte in Norwegian by his sister Martha and they are postmarked Romedal but I have no one to translate them. I have a lot of pictures of Arthur Gorboe Egeburg and Tharleif Egeburg dated November of 1876, Martha & Albert wedding ceremony in Romedal Church, Agnes from Sister Martha, I have a book signed Josie Wilburn Gorboe
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