Norwegian Emigrant Database

Passenger Information

Name: Barbro Helgesdatter Gaarder*

Age: 40

Gender: f

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

Sylvia Nelson (07.09.2012)

born June 10, 1810, died September 10, 1897. Both (Barbro and Syver Guttormsen Gaarder) buried in the Albany Lutheran Cemetery. Thirteen children including:

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, p. 210

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