Group of 40+ emigrants from Ringsaker to Wisconsin

Started by ToreL · 2018-09-07
ToreL · 2018-09-07#1
A group from Ringsaker counting 17 named adults plus twenty-some unnamed children were entered as emigrants headed for Wisconsin in the Hedmark passport protocol on May 5, 1858. I have found no trace of the group between these protocol entries and the US census of 1870, where eight members of the group appear to be living in the town of Neshonoe (pop. 869) in Lacrosse county, Wisconsin. This table contains a list of the 17 emigrants with the eight census matches. The last couple in the list were my ancestors Jens Hansen (b. Jan. 13, 1813) and wife Marie Larsdatter (bapt. May 14, 1816), who were travelling with children Mathias (b. June 7, 1844), Christian (b. Feb 3, 1848) and Kirstine/Kjerstine (b. Feb. 4, 1856), while their eldest son Johannes, my ancestor, born in 1842, before the couple was married, stayed behind in Norway. I have found no trace of this family in America, and would appreciate any help in tracing them. I have had no luck searching in the 1860 census. The town of Neshonoe does, as far as I can determine, not appear in the 1860 census. Tore Langholm

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