Person:Lars Mickelsen (1)

Address: Lars Mickelsen Greftegrev Norway Norway Name: Lars Mickelsen Address 1: Greftegrev Address 2: Norway Country: Norway

Lars Mickelsen and Ingeborg Hansdatter married 27. Dec. 1827. Lars was then living on Greftegrev. Ingeborg was living on Kammerudeje, and her father was Hans Eriksen.

Mikkel Larsen had three siblings: Hans, born 4. Dec 1830, married 1853 to Maren Olsdatter. Kari, born 12. Aug 1833 Anders born 12. April 1835

Hello Gerald.

My name is Ole P. Gamme, I live in Gran, Norway, and is a member of the Kontaktforum Hadeland-Amerika. We try to find out what happened with the 10 000 emigrants from Hadeland in their new country.

Verlyn Anderson forwarded your mail about your great grandfather Mikkel Larsen. I have written a form with the information you havesent, and what I have found out about this family. I send form 871 as an attachment.

I was not able to find the emigrationrecords for Mikkel on Internet, but this base is not complet. I found him and his new family in St. Olaf Twp., Ottertail Co. in Census 1880 on Internet. In 1880 Mikkel and Ingeborg had 4 children.

I have searched for Mikkel's siblings.

Hans, born 1830, married 21.08.1853 to Maren Olsdtr., got this children: Ingeborg, b. 13.11.1953, Elina, b. 17.07.1856 at Gautvedteiet in Gran, Lise, b. 26.03.1859, at Lysen, Lars, born 24.05.1865 in Hurdal, Hans Martinius, b. 05.12.1868 in Hurdal, Maren, b. 05.01.1872 at Lysen in Brandbu, Ole, b. 09.01.1877 at Kammerudeiet.

Kari, born 12.08.1833. I can not find any mariage for Kari, and not that she died in Gran. Emigrated?

Anders, born 12.04.1835 married 08.03.1859 to Pernille Halvorsdtr., born 19.01.1836 at Almseiet in Tingelstad, Gran. They got one one son, Lars, born 14.08.1859 in Gran. I can not find other children of Anders and Pernille born in Hadeland. I can either find any deathrecords for them. They must have moved to another district in Norway, and maybe emigrated later.

In Census 1880 for Norwegians in America, where I found Mikkel, there also is an Anders Larson with wife Pernille as neigbours for Mikkel. They have 9 children at home in 1880. ( one boy, Sam, 2 mnd. old is on the next page. I send the pages about Mikkel and Anders so you maybe can try to find this people. Anders' age is wrong, but that is a lot of wrong records in this Census. Pernille's age is correct. If this should be Mikkel's brother, Anders and Pernille must have lived in Norway until about 1870, since their daughter Maria, 9 years old is born in MN.

If there is a historybook for Otter Tail County, maybe there is something about them there, or it is possible to search for the death certificate, and look where Anders and Pernille where born in Norway.

You wrote in your first mail that Mikkel's first family came to America and joined Mikkel after his second wife's death. Have you any facts about that.

I hope you can find some more information about this family.

Greetings from Ole P. Gamme, e-mail: [email protected]