Veraas in Thompsonville

Started by muinn · 2011-09-26
muinn · 2011-09-26#1
May 13th 1903 Nils Christian Eriksen Veraas (born 1858 in Norway) left Trondheim for the USA. He was going to Thompsonville, Michigan. In the register of emigrants from Trondheim at Digitalarkivet his name was written "Nils Kristian Veraas". September 14th 1904 the wife Karen (born abt 1864 in Sweden) and the daughter Anna (actually Anna Marie, born 1889 in Sweden) went from Trondheim to join Nils in Thompsonville. In Thompsonville, Michigan there were 226 people in 1904, so it shouldn't be hard to find them if they are in any census there. I haven't been able to find them, and I don't know if this is due to my subscriptions on vital records (two subscriptions) or if I am searching for the wrong names. I know one brother of Nils used "Erickson" after emigrating to the US. The name of the place they came from was actually "Væraasvald", and one can understand why Erickson was preferred as a family name. Our family had Karen and Nils Veraas' grandson Harold Johnson visiting us this summer, and he told me that the family may have lived in Minnesota later. In the twenties I should have found the daughter Anna Marie married to Ole Kristian Johnson, living in Puget Island, Wahkiakum County, Washington, but I had no luck there either. The closest town would be Cathlamet. Their children were Birger, Olga Amanda, Vilhelm Frederick, Hazel Constance, Gladys Carolina and Harold Edward (born 1924), all called Johnson of course. Some time around 1930 they had to move from their farm in Puget Island, so they are probably to be found somewhere else in Washington after that. Are there anyone who can find these people in the censuses from Thompsonville MI or Wahkiakum County WA ?

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