Norwegian Emigrant Database

Passenger Information

Name: !! !! Forthun*

Age: ¾

Gender: !!

Remarks: !! - infant

Additional: residence Skjolden*

Ship: Ship Claus Heftye

Year: 1867

Captain: Andersen jr.

Departure: Bergen - Apr. 23

Arrival: Quebec - May 28

Source: NAC C-4522 list 14 — Transcribed by Paul Scheie - 2004

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Additional information

Janet Anderson (22.10.2011)

This family was Solfest b 1833, Agatha b 1836, children, Anders b 1857, Christena b 1860, Halvor b1862, and Britha b 1866 (female) on census records in 1870 in Utica Township, Crawford Co, Wisconsin. The surname they took was Anderson, although the 1870 census has a transcription error listing the family as Anderton. Solfest used the name Silvester. They family remained in Crawford Co, Wisconsin until their deaths.

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