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Passenger Information

Name: Guttorm Syversen Gaarder*

Age: 22

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

Sylvia Nelson (07.09.2012)

Guttorm Syversen, child #1 of Syver Guttormsen Gaarder and Barbro Helgesdatter Aasli.
born in Sør-Aurdal, Op, May 14, 1827, died August 19, 1855. Used the first name Thomas in America. Emigrated from Land to the Rock Prairie settlement, Rock Co., WI; December 1849 to Albany Twp., Green Co., WI. Married, January 1849.

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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