Norwegian Emigrant Database

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Name: Syver Gaarder

Age: 49

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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Sylvia Nelson (07.09.2012)

Syver Guttormsen Gaarder (Syver, 49, m), born at Åsli, Hedalen, or Piltingsrud in Begndalen, Sør-Aurdal, Op, 1800. Moved to Torpa in Nordre Land, Op, in 1843. Emigrated from Nordre Land, Op, in 1843. Emigrated from Nordre Land, Op, to Rock Co., WI; later that year to Albany Twp., Green Co., WI. Used the surnames Gaarder and Gothompson in America. Died December 17, 1881. Married in Hedalen, Sør-Aurdal, Op, January 1, 1827,

NORWEGIAN IMMIGRANTS TO THE UNITED STATES, A BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY, 1825-1850, Vol 3, 1847-1848, by Gerhard B. Naeseth, Edited by Blaine Hedberg; Madison, Wisconsin, 2000.

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