Norwegian Emigrant Database

Passenger Information

Name: Mathea Pedersdatter

Age: 20

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

Tom Sutter (21.08.2011)

This is Gunhild Marthea Pedersdatter, b. 6 Jul 1829, Ulshuslien, Nordsinni, Nordre Land, Oppland, Norway, the daughter of Peder Hovelsen (1802-bef 1880) and Gunhild Marthea Gudbrandsdatter (1799-aft 1880). She ultimately removed to Rock Prairie settlement, Rock County, Wisconsin (several other passengers from this ship ended up here too), and alternately went by the name Marthea Brendingen (name of farm she originated from). She and others from this ship are mentioned in Flom's "History of Norwegian Immigration in the United States..." (1909). She married Bernt Iverson Lund on 7 Oct 1851 in Rock County, Wisconsin. The couple settled in Perry Twp., Dane County, Wisconsin, and had 10 children. She died 11 Oct 1914 and is buried in the (old) York Cemetery, in rural Blanchardville, Lafayette County, Wisconsin. Sources: Scandinavian American Genealogical Association (SAGA) website (www. s-aga.org); Certificate of death, Dane County (WI) Register of Deeds (photocopy of original); Flom (1909); U.S. Census records, 1850-1910 (Ancestry.com); WI State Census records, 1895, 1905 (Ancestry.com); scan of original birth record, vital records of Land, Oppland, Norway (Digitalarkivet online); Index to Rock County, Wisconsin marriages, 1841-1907 (Vezzetti, 2004)

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