Norwegian Emigrant Database

Passenger Information

Name: Christian Larssen* Folseland*

Age: 25

Gender: m

Remarks: taylor

Additional: G. N: Christian Larsen Folseland

Ship: Brig Washington

Year: 1842

Captain: Smith

Departure: Porsgrunn - June 3

Arrival: New York - Aug. 1

Source: Roll # 50, no. 669 — Transcribed by Børge Solem - 2001

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Additional information

Durk (14.01.2011)

Born on 08-09-1817 to Lars Andersen Hejer and Ann Olsen.
Place of birth on the farm of Moll in Tinn, Telemark County, Norway, shortly after his birth the family moved to a farm called Folseland in the parish of Gransherred in the same county.
Christian died at Richmond, Cache County, Utah on September 20, 1901, at the age of eighty four years and buries in The Richmond, Utah Cemetery..

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