Person:Olav Nilsson Tjaldal (2)

Liestøl concluded that both this Olav Nilsson Tjaldal and the Olav Nilsson Tjaldal who married Åslaug Åsmundsdatter Tjaldal were the sons of Nils Olavsson Tjaldal^[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. Presumably the children had nicknames to differentiate them. Note that the two Olavs cannot be the same person, as their children were born during the same years.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Liestøl, Tarjei, and Torleif Eiken. Åseral gard og ætt. (Åseral: Utgjeve av Åseral bygdesogenemd, 1976-1987)
   1:356, Tjaldal.

   'Olav [child of Nils Olavsson Tjaldal], d. y. [the younger], g. m. enka Kari Asbjørnsdtr. Ljosland, bnr. [bruksnummer: holding number] 1 og 2 der [there].'

2. ↑ Liestøl, Tarjei, and Torleif Eiken. Åseral gard og ætt. (Åseral: Utgjeve av Åseral bygdesogenemd, 1976-1987)
   1:333, Ljosland.

   'Hausten 1759 var det dødsskifte etter Olav.'
   
   translation: Olav's probate was in the autumn of 1759.

3.   Liestøl, Tarjei, and Torleif Eiken. Åseral gard og ætt. (Åseral: Utgjeve av Åseral bygdesogenemd, 1976-1987)
   1:333, Ljosland.

   'Enka Kari gifte seg att med Olav Nilsson Tjaldal, ... Olav var truleg son til Nils Olavsson Tjaldal, ...'
   
   translation: Widow Kari remarried, to Olav Nilsson Tjaldal, ... Olav was probably the son of Nils Olavsson Tjaldal.

4. ↑ Birth year estimated based on approx. birth years of his siblings and his wife.