Person:Tor Steinarsson Fjågesund (1)

Tor eide gårder og gårdparter i mange bygder. Han var den rikeste bonden i Kviteseid og en av de rikeste bøndene i hele Telemark i gammel tid.

Han eide Tveit i Tørdal i 1624 og hadde odel til gården så gården må ha vært i familien hans. Fjågesund betalte kvegskatt av tre hester, 14 kuer, 14 sauer og sju geiter i 1657. Det var regnet som 1 1/2 full gård.

English translation (with help from Google translate): Tor owned farms and parts of farms in many communities. He was the richest farmer in Kviteseid and one of the wealthiest farmers throughout Telemark in ancient times.

He owned Tveit in Tørdal in 1624 and was heir to the farm so the farm must have been in his family. Fjågesund paid cattle tax on 3 horses, 14 cows, 14 sheep and 7 goats in 1657. It was considered as 1 1/2 full farms.

1.   Henneseid, Stian, and Gregar Nordbø. Bø-soga II : Telemark, gards og ættesoga. (Bø: Bø Kommune, 1982-1986)
   1:193, Nordbø.

   'Tor Steinarsson Fjågesund, d. ca. 1640, ... g. 1627 m. Bergit Rollefsdtr. Klevar, d. 1685, på Fossheim.'

2.   Sannes, Olav. Drangedal med Tørdal, ei bygdesoga. (Drangedal: Drangedal historielag, 1974)
   p. 619.
3.   Loupedalen, Torjus; Aanund Olsnes; and Olav T Bakken. Kviteseid bygdesoge. (Kviteseid: Eigi forlag, 1956-1962 ; c1987-)
   2:88.
4.   Anderson, Lorna, and Audrey Overland. Overland family history : with roots in Telemark Norway. (River Falls: River Falls Journal Commercial Printing Dept., 1986)
   p. 93, 100.

   nevner at han døde før 1637 (s. 93), 1648 (s. 100)
   translation: mentions that he died before 1637 (p. 93), 1648 (p. 100)

5. ↑ Birth year estimated based on estimated birth year of his wife.
6. ↑ Approx. death year based on the approx. birth year of Bergit's son Tor by her second marriage.