Jørgen Andreassen Lie

the first of our ancestors at Bakken

April 2005 Åsmund Solem

(English version november 2005)

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Contents

1 Preface ...... 5 2 Who Was Jørgen Andreassen Lie? ...... 5 2.1 His Place in the Family Tree...... 5 2.2 Where Did He Come From? ...... 5 2.3 My Search For Jørgen's Ancestry ...... 5 2.4 His Father's Kin ...... 6 2.5 Jørgen's Siblings ...... 7 2.6 The Women at Sigstad ...... 7 2.7 Life Futher At Sigstad ...... 8 2.8 The Mother's Kin ...... 8 3 A Little About the History of Innset ...... 9 4 Jørgen's Life After His Childhood at Innset ...... 9 5 Olava and Jørgen ...... 9 5.1 Speculations for Further Studies...... Feil! Bokmerke er ikke definert. 6 At Ørlandet ...... 10 6.1 For Further Studies ...... Feil! Bokmerke er ikke definert. 7 A Little ...... 13 8 Ancestry Tree for Elen Jørgensdatter Viklem ...... 14 9 Sources...... 15 9.1 Census for Kvikne in 1801...... 15 9.2 Folketelling for Ørland i 1865...... 16 9.3 Church Book for Kvikne and Innset ...... 17 9.4 Church Book for Ørland ...... 17 9.5 Litteratur ...... 18

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Data about Jørgen so far:

Mother: Ingrid Eriksdatter Nordland Father: Andreas Henriksen Sigstad b. 1748

Born: 1791 Place of birth: Innset, Rennebu, Sør-Trøndelag Baptized: March 27 1791 in Innset church1 Confirmed: July 26 1807 in Innset church Married: February 21 1822 in Viklem church Died: May 15 1874 at Ørland, Sør-Trøndelag

Married first time to Olava Olsdatter b. 17972 Married second time to Kirsten Larsdatter

1 Source: Church book of Kvikne (Kvikne and Innset parishes) HF1346 2 Source: Unni Solem Bilsbak, tree of ancestors

4 1 Preface

In this document we shall look at Jørgen Andreassens parents, and whatever we can find about his life. At the same time, we will in another document look at his son-in-law Iver Toresen and his kin. In this document we will also look at the descendants from these people. They will not be discussed in this document.

2 Who Was Jørgen Andreassen Lie?

2.1 His Place in the Family Tree

Jørgen Andreassen Lie was the first user – or rather "leaser"3 – of the farm Bakken from our family. The farm was later leased by his son-in-law Iver Thoresen, and further owned by Iver's son Jørgen. Jørgen Andreassen Lie was the grandfather of Jørgen Iversen Viklem and Theodore Iversen Viklem. For the record, we just mention that Jørgen used the patronymic name Iversen as a family name, while Theodore used Wiklem or Wicklem.

2.2 Where Did He Come From?

Jørgen was born at the farm Sigstad at Innset in Rennebu in 1791, as the youngest of 6 siblings, 5 of them grew up. Jørgen's father, Andreas was a farmer and what was called ”røstvedhogger”. He chopped wood for the mining activity. Among other things, this wood was used for ”roasting” the rock, to get the metals out, and hence the word ”røst”. The mother, Ingrid Eriksdatter Nordland was from the farm Klingenberg, also called Nordland.

Scanned original page from the church book of 1791. See 9.3 Church Book for Kvikne and Innset at page 17 for translation.

2.3 My Search For Jørgen's Ancestry

I found Jørgen at first in the census for Kvikne (”Qvekne”): In 1801 Jørgen is 10 years old, and can be found at farm number 76 there4, at "Indsets Annex"5, Qvekne municipality6,

3 They leased the farm, and often they were called "husmann", which also indicated that they had obligations in relation to the owning farmer, such as a certain ammount of days of labour at the big farm. 4 At the census of this region, there weren't noted the names of the farms. 5 A parish under Kvikne

5 Hedemarkens Amt 7”. I therefore assumed that my information on his year of birth was rightfully set to the year of 1791. After having borrowed the microfilm with the church book of Kvikne, I found him as a “confirmed”8 boy in Innset church July 26th 1807. At that time, Innset parish was a part of Kvikne municipality. Therefore, the information on this aerea, which today is a part of Rennebu municipality, in Sør-Trøndelag county, then was to be found in church books for Kvikne municipality, Hedmark county. The municipality and county borders as they are today, were made at the reform of municipality borders in the 1960s, and in this case, they were made in 1966. The Book of Ørland contained information which said that Jørgen was from Kvikne. This is partly right. It is right when we look at the borders at that time, but today we would rather say that Jørgen was form Innset parish in Rennebu.

Therefore, I had to look in “Innsetboka” (the Book of Innset), and search there for Jørgen and his family.

2.4 His Father's Kin9

Jørgen's family can be found at the Sigstad eller Henriksplass Sigstad10 farm 5 generations before Sigstad was ”Bergplass nr. 13”. This can be Jørgen and his siblings. Jørgen's great- translated as something like "the mining great-great grandfather, Nils company's place number 13". This Henriksen, had a leasing contract on numeration comes from the work of a man at Sigstad in 1657, and the great-great the copper mine, who registered the places grandfather, Henrik Nilsen is where the workers lived. The name Sigstad mentioned in the sources as the leaser comes from Biri south in Norway, and has no of the farm in 1672 and in 1678. From origin at Innset. The name was suggested by a the next generation, we can find man from Biri, who was a member of the information about the female line as commission who valued the places in order to well: Jørgen's great grandfather get a list for use in later taxation. So, the farm Andreas Henriksen is the leaser in was named Sigstad. In daily speaking, the 1715, and his wife's name is Catrine farm was talked about as ”Henriksplass” Johnsdatter. They had three children ("Henrik's place") after the user. It has also that we know of: Henrik, Nils and been called ”Røsa” ("The heap of stones") Kari. because the place was very stony. Furthermore, one has also found the name ”Utstad” used now and then about the place.

Henrik Andreassen, Jørgen's grandfather, was married to Kirsti Nilsdatter. Here we get a year of birth for the first time, since the Book of Innset states that she lived from 1708 to 1784. We know 6 children of Henrik and Kirsti: Andreas, Nils, Catrine, Ingeborg, Sofie og Marit.

6 We use municipality here, though it is hardly correct. The governmental structure at that time was like this: Norway was divided into "amt" which can be translated into counties, and the counties were divided into the ecclesiastical district of "prestegjeld". These - in many cases - coincide with the municipalities of today. Further these were divided into parishes, in Norwegian: "Sokn" og "sogn". 7 Hedmark county 8 This needs an explanation: It is a “rite de passage”, a ceremonial act to mark the step into adulthood. It has gotten it’s name from the fact that the young men and women aged 15-17 were asked to confirm the vow made by their parents, that they wanted to be a child of God. Catholics have a similar “first communion”, but it is often earlier in life. After this act, the young ones were considered adults, though not completely in the legal sense as we know it today. 9 The following paragraphs are base don ”Innsetboka” (The Book of Innset), volume II, pages 344- 10 Farm number 106, part number 1

6 When Henrik passed away in 1782, the leasing contract of the farm was passed on to Jørgen’s father Andreas. Andreas was born in 1748. The parents of Jørgen, Andreas and Ingrid, were married in 1777. They had – as earlier mentioned – 6 children: Henrik (passed away early) Kirsti, Henrik, Erik, Esten and Jørgen.

2.5 Jørgen's Siblings

Kirsti was married at the farm Næverdal at Inhabitants11 Innset, Henrik became a farmer at their In the year of 1801 there was a national home farm Sigstad, Erik bought the farm census in Norway. From this we know that Skreen in Oppdal (neighbouring parish), there were 475 inhabitants living in Innset Esten moved to Strinda (near Trondheim) at that time. In all of Kvikne there were and settled there, while our ancestor Jørgen 1053 inhabitants. went to Trondheim and got an education as a blacksmith. We will get back to that later.

2.6 The Women at Sigstad

As we can see from the family history, we know little about the women. In the first generations we know nothing, not even names. Later w eget to know names, but little about their background. This could be a task for further research. If it is possible to find anything at all, we don’t know.

11 Source: The Book of Innset, volume I, page 17

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2.7 Life Further At Sigstad

Jørgen’s father Andreas passed away in 182012, and his mother Ingrid managed the farm from that time. The leasing contract of the farm was transferred to Jørgen’s brother Henrik in 1829, and he also bought the farm from the mining company, along with another farm. He married and had 7 children, butt he farm was sold by his children in 1866, three years after Henrik passed away.

Jørgen’s mother Ingrid passed away in 1838.13

2.8 A piece of Norwegian history… As we have seen here in the paragraph about “Life Further At Sigstad”, the farms were often owned by others, and this was often the case until the late 19th Century. It differs when the commons got the chance to buy their homes or their farms, their livelihood so to speak, but this process took place from the second half of the 18th Century and until the start of the 20th Century. Some had contracts which included labour at the big farm (costedral farm) as a payment for the leasing of the small farms, but such contracts were banned by law in the late 19th Century. For those who lived under these contracts, however, life was often hard. The “husmenn”14 were often placed on the “bad” pieces of land, and they had to work this land to get food for themselves, as well as working at the main farm. The owner decided when they should work for him, of course. It was a kind of slavery. For those who leased a farm of some size, things could be better, but still the farm was often owned by the Church, some kind of local “nobility” like the King’s legal or clerical representative, or the King himself.

2.9 The Mother's Kin15

Jørgen’s mother Ingrid Eriksdatter Nordland was, as we earlier have mentioned, born at the farm Klingenberg16, or rather Nordland at Innset. Her kin can be traced 4 generations before her at this farm. Further in this document we use the name Nordland about this farm.

Ingrid’s great-great grandfather Knut Eriksen is the leaser or user of this place in 1644. He worked as ”hytteknekt” which means he wasd working in the mines, and he was moved to Innset when the company established mining activity there.

In 1657 is his son Erik Knudsen leaser. He worked at the mining company as well. In the Book of Innset it says that ”findings indicate that his wife was called Guri Olsdatter”. Two sons can be found: Knut and Ole. Ole moved to the neighbouring town Røros, and Ingrid’s grandfather Knut took over the leasing contract of the farm Nordland from his father.

Knut was married to Marit Andersdatter, born in 1701, died in 1788. Three of their children grew up: Erik, Guri and Anders. Guri was married to a man from Kvikne, who became the

12 September 17 1820. Source: Church Book of Kvikne 13 March 8 1838. Source: Church book of Kvikne 14 “Husmenn”: People living on a piece of land owned by the famer, having a contract including a certain amount of labour days as a payment for leasing the farm. 15 The following paragraphs are base don The Book of Innset, volume II, pages 325- 16 The name Klingenberg was forced upon them during the ---- which was done for taxation purposes. It’s name is really Nordland. The farm has the farm number 101, part number 1.

8 leaser or user at the farm Moen Øvre at Innset. Anders moved from Innset, probably to the town Røros, and Erik became the leaser at Nordland.

Erik Knutsen, Ingrid’s father, was married to Anne Johnsdatter, born 1706, died 1799. They had 7 children: Knut, John, Kari, Marit, Brynhild, Elisabeth and Ingrid. John leased a place/farm at Innset, Kari was married to a man at Sparbu in Nord-Trøndelag (northern county in the Trondheim region), Marit was married to a man from the Skjulshus farm at Innset, Brynhild moved to Molde, and Ingrid was married to the future farmer at Sigstad.

As we can see from Ingrid’s family history, we do not know much about the women’s background here either, as was the case with Jørgen’s family.

3 A Little About the History of Innset17

Kvikne Kobberverk18 started in the 1630s. Copper melting houses were built one by one, and this activity caused severe damages to the forrest: They needed wood for the walls in the shafts, wood and coal for the process by which they gained copper, and wood to burn out the pyrites in the mines.

To secure the access to wood, the leasers at the farms had a duty to deliver wood and coal.

In 1638-40 the "Indset Hytte"19 was built at the grounds of the farm Storindset. The melting house had 8 owens. The workers who came there to work, leased land from the mining company, and settled there. These places were called ”bergplasser”, and there were 70 of them around the melting house at Innset. The worker's day at the melting house was long, so it was probably the women and the children who did most of the work at the farms.

4 Jørgen's Life After His Childhood at Innset

Innsetboka20 says that Jørgen took the family name Lie. It is therefore not strange that it took me some time to find him, specially since it also has been involving two different counties. Today this is Sør-Trøndelag county, earlier this belonged to Hedmark county. Why he took this name Lie as his family name, is still a mystery.

Innsetboka also mentiones that he went to Trondheim and got educated as a black-smith. Can we find out more about this?

5 Olava and Jørgen

Jørgen – at some point - married his first wife Olava Olsdatter.

17 Følgende er basert på Innsetboka bind I 18 Kvikne Copper Mining Company 19 Innset Copper Melting House 20 "The book of Innset"

9 Jørgen came to Ørland in 1820. He then had been in Trondheim for some years, and was educated as a blacksmith. He came to work at the Austrått farm, a big farm at Ørland. A girl also working there was Olava. We don’t know much about her, but probably she had come to Ørland to work at Austrått as well, moving from another part of the district.

Ørlandsboka21 - The Book of Ørland – says they were married when they came, but that is not true. Checking the Church records thoroughly, we find that they married February 21 1822 in Viklem Church.

6 At Ørlandet

Jørgen and Olava lived at Bakken. Children: (Please note that we Norwegians write day, month, year when writing dates)

1. Andreas b. 29.05.1822 2. Lars b. 26.07.1824 3. Elen b. 03.06.1827 4. Ole b. 02.12.1829 5. Anne Katrine b. 27.11.1833

Olava died 31.05.1848. Jørgen was then married for the second time 21.06.1855 to Kirsten Larsdatter b. 28.02.1799, from Stjørna. Jørgen died 15.05.1874. Kirsten died 26.04.1895.

6.1 Some words about their children

Andreas went to Trondheim in 1847, and there he married a woman called Sara Pertine Beeck. They had 3 daughters: Augusta Marie (b. 1852), Jørgine Olava (b. 1857) and Sara Alida Oldine (b. 1863). Andreas was a merchant. In 1887 there was a fire that we can find information about, and the widow Sara is mentioned as the owner of the building at “Nedre Bakklandet 25”. If this was their home or their business locals, I don’t know.

Lars we don’t know so much about yet, except that he was christened 29.08.1824.

Elen we skip here.

Ole we don’t know much about either, except that he was christened 11.04.1830.

Anne Katrine also went to Trondheim. She married Gullik Thoresen, and they had 4 children: Gustav (b. 1858), Arnoldus (b. 1861), Olufine Marie (b. 1863) and Theodora Jørgine (b. 1865). We know that Arnoldus had children. This we know from the census in 1900.

21 "The book of Ørland"

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6.2 Elen

Elen, the daughter of Jørgen, was married to Iver Thoresen. They took over the Bakken farm after a while, but still in 1865, when Jørgen was about 74 years, he was noted in the census as leaser ("husmann") with land, while the son-in-law was noted as leaser without land and fisherman ("Huusmand uden Jord. Fisker").

The picture is probably from the summer of 1903. From the left we can see Jørgen’s wife Ludvika with Emma (born Oct 1901) on the lap, Jørgen, Elen, Inga (born 1898) and Gudrun (born 1896).

Since they were not a wealthy family, there is no photography of Iver. Pictures of people coming from the countryside before 1900 weren’t so usual.

1. Odin Jørginius b. 22.09.1853 d. 17.09.1868 2. Theodor(e) b. 22.06.1855 3. Gurine b. 20.01.1856 4. Jørgen b. 02.01.1860 5. Stillborn son 6. Ole b. 1863 d. 15.05.1864 7. Olava b. 06.04.1865 8. Eline b. 25.03.1867 9. Odin b. 11.03.1869 d. 24.03.1892

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6.3 A little about Elen’s children

Odin Jørginius lived to be almost 15 years.

Theodore went to the USA (see below).

Gurine went to Copenhagen in the 1870s and got educated as a taylor. This was quite unusual for a girl from the countryside those days.

The company she had delivered clothes to the stores in Trondheim that sold clothes.

She had several women working for her there.

After Iver died, Elen went to live at her place for long periods.

Gurine passed away in the late 1930s.

Jørgen took over at Bakken. He married Ludvika, and they had 4 girls: Gudrun (b. 1896) who died young, Inga (b. 1898), Emma Lorine (b. 1901) and Jørgine (b. 1901).

Jørgen passed away in 1939.

Ole died about one year old.

Olava married a farmer at Ørland called Elias Brodersen. They had 6 children together, and Olava had one son before she met Elias. The father of Olava’s son Waldemar (b. 1890) came from Copenhagen. We assume that she had been there visiting her sister. Olava and Elias had Birger Kristian (b. 1895), Eleonore Olava (b. 1896 d. 1896), Emil Ingvald (b. 1897), Oskar Eivind (b. 1900), Krisitan (b. 1903) and Ragnhild (b. 1905).

Eline went to Trondheim to work for her sister. She married Oskar Ellefsen, but they didn’t have children. He died shortly after they married.

Eline passed away in the late 1930s.

Odin passed away at the age of 23.

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7 An Example of Generations

As an example of the generations, we can make the following list:

1 Henrik – unknown

2 Nils Henriksen Sigstad (user/leaser of Sigstad in 1657)

3 Henrik Nilsen Sigstad (user/leaser of Sigstad in 1672 and 1678)

4 Andreas Henriksen Sigstad (user/leaser of Sigstad in 1715)

5 Henrik Andreassen Sigstad mt Kirsti Nilsdatter b. 1708

6 Andreas Henriksen Sigstad b. 1748 mt Ingrid Eriksdatter Norland b. abt 1754

7 Jørgen Andreassen Lie b. 1791 mt Olava Olsdatter b. 1797

8 Elen Jørgensdatter Viklem b. 1827 mt Iver Thoresen b. 1820

9 Theodore Iversen Wicklem b. 1855 Mt Gunda Halvorsen b. abt 1865

10 George Wicklem b. 1894 Mt

11 Robert Wicklem

12 Charles / Bradley / Daniel

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13 8 Ancestry Tree for Elen Jørgensdatter Viklem Andreas Henrik Nils Henriksen Henriksen Nilsen Sigstad Henrik Sigstad Andreassen Sigstad

Andreas Henriksen Sigstad b. 1748 Kirsti Nilsdatter b. 1708

Jørgen Andreassen Lie Knut Erik Knutsen Knut Eriksen b. 1791 Eriksen Nordland Erik Nordland Guri Knutsen Olsdatter ? Nordland Marit Andersdatter Ingrid b. 1701 Eriksdatter Nordland b. abt 1754 ? Anne Johnsdatter b. 1706

Elen Jørgensdatter Viklem b. 1827

Olava Olsdatter b. 1797 ?

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9.1 Census for Kvikne in 1801

Digitalarkivet: 1801-telling for 0440 Qvekne

Amt 22: Hedemarken Prestegjeld23: Qvekne Sogn24: Indsets Annex Gard25: 76 Househ. First name Last name status Age Marital status Occupation Gender Andreas Henrichsen Man 53 Begge i 1ste Røstvender27 M ægteskab26 and user/leaser of a place Ingri Eriksdtr His wife 47 Begge i 1ste F ægteskab Erich Andreassen Their child 17 Unmarried M Esten Andersen Their child 15 M Jørgen Andreassen Their child 10 M Kirsti Andreasdtr Their child 21 F

22 County 23 "Municipality" 24 Parish 25 Farm 26 Both in first marriage 27 Hard to translate: His job is to turn the ore during the process of gaining copper

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9.2 Folketelling for Ørland i 1865

Digitalarkivet: 1865-telling for 1621 Ørlandet

District nr Page School district Parish Municipality Farm name 5 132 Ørlands faste28 Ørlands Hoved Ørland Wiklem

Fornavn Etternavn Family status Occupation Marital Age Gender Place of status birth Jørgen Andreass. Huusfader Huusmand med Jord g 75 m Qviknes Prgj. Kirsten Larsd. hans Kone g 66 f Bjugns Prgj.

Stort kveg Bygg Havre Poteter 4 ¾ 1 ¼ 3 ½

Digitalarkivet: 1865-telling for 1621 Ørlandet Rettar til dataene: Digitalarkivet Post 330 av 542/3934 totalt i databasen

District nr Page School district Parish Municipality Farm name 5 132 Ørlands faste Ørlands Hoved29 Ørland Wiklem

Fornavn Etternavn Familiestatus Yrke Sivilst. Alder Kjønn Fødested Iver Thores. Huusfader Huusmand uden Jord g 51 m Stadsbygds Fisker Prgj. Elen Jørgensd. hans Kone g 39 k Ørlands Prgj. Odin Ivers. deres Søn ug 13 m Ørlands Prgj. Theodor Ivers. deres Søn ug 11 m Ørlands Prgj. Jørgen Ivers. deres Søn ug 6 m Ørlands Prgj. Gurina Iversd. deres Datter ug 10 k Ørlands Prgj. Olava Iversd. deres Datter ug 1 k Ørlands Prgj. Andreas Mortens. Logerende Skomager e 56 m Ørlands Prgj.

28 Ørland's "regular" school district 29 The "main" parish

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9.3 Church Book for Kvikne and Innset

(HF1345)

179130 "1791 Døbte Indset ... Martü 27 Andreas Hendrichsen og Ingri Erichdatters Jørgen. Fadd.: Arne Rasmusen, Even Evensen, Knud Poulsen, Ingeborg Hendrichsd., Kirsti Christensd."

In addition to this there is something written about "May 15"

180731 ”Aar 1807 den 26de Julü confirmeredes i Indsets kirke Drenge…

Jørgen Andreassen…”

(A total of 8 boys and 4 girls. They are listed without personal data.)

9.4 Church Book for Ørland

(HF 1186)

Book 5 1826-41 1827 Baptized: Nr 66: Elen Born: 3. June 1827 Baptized: 14. July 1827 Father: Husmand Jørgen Andreassen …. Mother: wife Olava Olsdatter

30 Translation: "1791 Christened Indset. March 27: Andreas Hendrichsen and Ingri Erichdatter's Jørgen Witnesses: Arne Rasmusen, Even Evensen, Knud Poulsen, Ingeborg Hendrichsd., Kirsti Christensd." The scanned original church book page is included in this paper. 31 Translation: "Year 1807 the 26th of July was confirmed in Innset church Boys: ... Jørgen Andreassen ... "

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9.5 Litteratur

Rian, Inge (1988) ”Ørlandsboka” volume II, Ørland kommune

Tronshaug A.E. red. (1975) ”Innset – en bygdebok” bind II – Gårdsbruk, Adresseavisens boktrykkeri, Trondheim

Tronshaug O.M og Tronshaug A.J. red. (1997) ”Innset bygdebok” bind II – Kultur, Olav Snøfugls Trykkeri, Oppdal

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