Hvaal – family Painting of Solveig (Hvaal) Maukon Hilda and Ole with children 1 Preface On these pages we present the story of a large family originating from the farm “Søndre Hvaal” in Lardal, Norway. This farm has been in the family we are describing since 1864. That year Johannes Halvorsen and Anne Oline Evensdatter bought the farm. They had 10 children and it is, in particular, the son Ole (number 5 of the children) we are discussing here. Ole Johannesen Hvaal took over the farm in 1878 and the same year married 15-year-old Hilda Josefine Nielsdatter. Ole and Hilda had 17 children – you can see 16 of them on the front page. We are discussing their ancestors – and in particular their descendants. All descendants are coded. This makes it easy to see the family relations – both with regard to generation as well as within the same generation. The system will be described later. The author of these pages is not directly in the family. However, I am married to one of the great grandchildren of Ole and Hilda. In the work to collect information I have used all available re- sources such as the digitized church books – the census from 1865 and 1900 as well as “Lardal bygdebok” – a book from 1973 about the farms in Lardal Kommune. Most information is,- how ever, obtained from the different family members. The Norwegian names are not translated. Thormod Henriksen Thormod died 13 feb. 2020 at the age of 92. Please contact Terje Henriksen (
[email protected]) for comments and corrections A picture taken by Odd Aino Maukon in 1995 Place and name In order to give some orientation, we include on this page a map of Vestfold, Norway.