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Name: Finkel Finkelsen

Age: 55

Gender: m

Remarks:

Ship: Bark Drafna

Year: 1848

Captain: Eckersberg

Departure: Drammen - May 30

Arrival: New York - Aug. 5

Source: NARA Roll # 82, arr. no.1059 — Transcribed by Børge Solem - 2001

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Carolyn A. Johnson (29.09.2016)

Finkel Finkelsen Braekke ( Finkel Finkelsen, 35, M), son of Finkel Knudsen and Ingeborg Stephensdatter, born in Vang, Op, to Liberty Twp., Manitowoc Co., WI.; by 1860 to Buchanan Twp., Manitowoc Co., WI.; by 1870 to Liberty Twp., Manitoowc, Co., WI. Died January 18, 1884. Married, June 28, 1853, Anne Olsen Løken and Marit Johannesdatter, born in Vestre Slidre, Op, March,3, 1822, died September 9, 1900. She emigrated from Veste Slidre, Op, in 1852, bringing with her two children with Anders Olsen. Anders, born April 4, 1848; Ole, born April 1, 1851. Finkel and Anne had the following children: Knud, born February 15, 1854; Ingeborg, born March 30, 1856; Johan, born February 25, 1859, died October 28, 1896; Marit, born July 19, 1861.
Source. Norwegian Innigrants To The United States 1848 Naeseth and Hedberg. Page 170.

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