Passenger Information
Name: John Bergesen
Age: 46
Gender: m
Remarks: Steerage
Ship: Bark Benedicte
Year: 1849
Captain: With jr.
Departure: Drammen - June 8
Arrival: New York - Aug. 22
Source: arr. no. 1176 — Transcribed by Børge Solem - 2001
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Additional information
Christina Engelbart (01.03.2017)
This is Jon Olsen Bergum from Søndre Land. According to the Boka om Land Vol. IV, his party included passengers #12-16:
Jon Olsen Bergum (b.1802), owner of the farm Bergum, with his wife Nille Johannesdatter Volla (b.1809), their daughter Berte Marie (b.1837) and newborn son Wittus Johan Benedigtus (b.11th Jul 1849 en route, named after both the captain and the ship), plus the unmarried woman Marie Larsdatter (b.1815) from farm Houg, and the two foster children Inger Martea Larsdatter (b.1845), and Anne Marie Bjørnsdatter from Lom (b.1829). The Bergum family came first to Koshkonong, WI, and then to Coon Prairie the following year.
SOURCE: Boka om Land Vol. IV "The Emigration to America from Nordre and Søndre Land, 1839-1915," by Arvid Sandaker 1973.
[NOTE: Nille J. and Marie L. are not listed on this transcript, but "Hans Nille age 40" listed on the original passenger list after Jon Bergum is probably our Nille; I cannot locate entry for Marie L, perhaps variation of her name or she came by different ship.]