Norwegian Emigrant Database

Passenger Information

Name: Reinert Altogsen??

Age: 26

Gender: m

Remarks: Between deck

Ship: Bark Emigrant

Year: 1851

Captain: Olsen

Departure: Flekkefjord - Stavanger - Apr. 30

Arrival: New York - June 30

Source: Roll # 100, arr. no. 817 — Transcribed by Børge Solem - 2000

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Additional information

Elisabeth Seland (06.04.2016)

The surname is transcribed wrong. Correct transcription is: Reinert Atlagsen. This is Reinert Atlaksen Ovedal, born 1827. See Per Seland (1988): Gard og ætt. Sirdal bd. IV, p. 416 and Hjalmar Rued Holand (1927): Coon Prairie. En historisk beretning om Den norske evangeliske lutherske menighet paa Coon Prairie. Skrevet i anledning av dens 75-aarsfest i 1927. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House.

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