Person:Ingeborg Torbjørnsdatter (1)

Apparently it was not uncommon for two living children in the same family to have the same name because of the naming conventions of the time, in which the oldest children in a family were named after their grandparents and the younger after their great-grandparents^[3]. Presumably the children had nicknames to differentiate them.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Liestøl, Tarjei, and Torleif Eiken. Åseral gard og ætt. (Åseral: Utgjeve av Åseral bygdesogenemd, 1976-1987)
   1:106, Forgard.

   'Torbjørn finn ein første gongen nemnd på Forgard i skattemanntalet 1610. ... I 1620 var han krone- og leiglendingsbonde på Forgard, ...
   I tida 1621/26 må Torbjørn ha flytt til Naglestad, der han åtte 2 huder. Han blir frå då av kalla Torbjørn Naglestad.'
   
   translation: One finds Torbjørn first mentioned at Forgard in the 1610 tax census. ... In 1620 he was crown- and tenant farmer in Forgard, ...
   In the period 1621-26, Torbjørn must have moved to Naglestad, where he had 2 hides [of land]. From then on, he was called Torbjørn Naglestad.

2. ↑ Liestøl, Tarjei, and Torleif Eiken. Åseral gard og ætt. (Åseral: Utgjeve av Åseral bygdesogenemd, 1976-1987)
   1:106, Forgard.

   'Ingeborg d. y. [den yngre: the younger] [child of Torbjørn Gardsson Forgard, Naglestad and Siri Håriksdtr.]'

3. ↑ Neil Hofland's NEWBIE NOTES, Karla Mattila Neil Hofland online (www.rootsweb.com/~norway/NewbieNotes.htm), acc.

   'These conventions [naming children after grandparents and great-grandparents] lead to instances where 2 or more living children in the same family could have the same first name. For example, if both Kristoffer and Kari had fathers named Ole, it was likely that they would have 2 children named Ole. There is one instance in Årdal with 4 living Oles in the same family.'

4. ↑ Birth year estimated based on estimated birth years of her siblings.