Norwegian Emigrants 1825-1875

Passenger Information

Name: John Olsen Hovet

Age: 32

Sex: m

Ship: Ship Heros

Year: 1868

Captain: Olsen

Departure: Stavanger - Apr. 27

Arrival: Quebec - June 2

Source: NAC C-4523 list 23 — Transcribed by Trond Austheim - 2003

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Additional information

Laura Gordon (10.09.2014)

Born 1835 at Hovet, Hylestad, Valle, Aust-Agder, Norway
Parents:
Father: Olav Hansson Konnestad, b. Abt 1794, Fjære, Aust-Agder, Norway; d. 1864
Mother: Gunhild Jonsdatter, b. 1797, of Bjørgum, Hylestad, Valle, Aust-Agder, Norway; d. 1866

Sources: https://histfam.familysearch.org//getperson.php?personID=I5302&tree=Valle
Bygdebok ValleVol2 (PAF UID) = BC85FA7A72F4F944A67E81E364A330667DB1
Valle kommune, II: Gards- og ættesoge Hylestad, Alfred Ryningen, (Kragerø: Valle kommune, 1985), p. 235.

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