Kristian Hansen/Hans Elias Colbensen
Started by ChrisHansen · 2009-07-24
ChrisHansen · 2009-07-24#1
Hi
I am researching my great-great grandfather Kristian HANSEN and his father Hans Elias COLBENSEN's family history and need some help deciphering/translating and interpreting the hand written marriage entry from 1873 which I finally found in the Digital Archives parish register for Oslo Domkirke here:
Parish register (official) nr. 21 (1865-1884), Marriage records 1873, page 195
Permanent imagelink: http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:NBN:no-a1450-kb20060215030693.jpg
This shows he was born on 10 June 1834 and is also the only record I have of his father.
Although I found a list of all the standard column headings and a dictionary with basic words translated I am having trouble identifying the place of birth/residence and some of the notes about him being a widower and having to get royal permission to marry his second wife Randi Andersdatter (I found her in the 1865 census for Lier).
The story goes that Kristian was a sea-captain and was probably in the navy or merchant navy.
In 1881 they had a daughter Victoria Hansen who died in England in 1885. I have found census records of him in London, where he died in 1895. This shows that he an Randi were by then British subjects - I don't know how this process of naturalisation would have happened? And there is a big gap between 1873 and 1881. I have not been able to find this Victoria's birth records in England (they also had another daughter called Victoria who also died).
However these UK records and the other birth and death certificates I have have Kristian's occupation as Ship's Carpenter, Ship Chandler, ShopKeeper and Ironmonger so maybe he was retired by then?
I would really like to find his Norwegian navy or merchant navy records but understand to do that I need to know where he was born. Reading the handwriting is a bit more of a challenge when you are also unfamiliar with possible place names. And there are lots of [ck][h]ristian Hansens in the digital archives!
Anyway - any help anyone can give would be much appreciated.
Thanks