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• Residence: Choice, Fillmore County, MN USA
• Emigration: 21 Apr 1854, USA

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I have been searching far and wide to learn something about Bretta (AuntBetsy, as our relatives know her). She was 10 years old when her father and mother, younger sister and brother decided to emigrate to Amerika. She was born in 1844 and the y came in 1855. She grew up in the mountains, and fjords, and lived in an area where her family and theirf amilies before her lived for generations. They packed everything they could take with them, left everything else behind, boarded a smal l boat,went to a port, (probably Bergen) and boarded a big ship and started across the big ocean to lands unknown. The ships at that time were sailing ships, it was before steam ships, and the voyage took about 9 to12 weeks. They arrived in Ne w York, carried all their possessions to find transportation inland. They probably took a train (if they had money) to a barge on the Erie Canal, took boat to Milwaukee, . and then probably walked to Dane County, Father, Mother, sister Guri, ba bybrother Peter, and herself. They were probably very short of money, and very short of food. She was a little girl and she did not understand the language, the weather was different, and the scenery was different and the familiar mountains an d fjords were gone forever.

After more research I will learn more about the family. But today we can only suppose, they meet a relative in Dane County. In two months Bretta's mother died of Cholera (the story that I heard from a historianat the Spring Prairie Lutheran Chu rch).

By the time Breta was 11 years old, her father married a woman with an 11year old son and they lived together as a family. She had been the head of the household, taking care of her sister, Guri, and her little brother, Peter.

In the next 6 or 7 years or so, she had 2 more brothers and a new babysister. About the time Breta was 17 or 18 years old, the family decided to move furthur west to a wild and unsettled land, Faribault County Minnesota.

I do not know if Breta moved with her family to Faribault County or not. I only know that she married a Peter Johnson from Huska farm Norway andt hat they had a farm in Choice, Minnesota. It is in Norway Township, Fillmore County. Joe Kallesta d said she had 16 children. At this time I only have the names of some of the children. I do think that one daughter spent some time visiting in Frost area because Joe talked about Dina Derling and her children. He also talked about Bell an d Charley Bleed and the fact that her husband was a Minnepolis Policeman and so was one of her sons.

Breta spent her elderly years with her daughter Emma (Forsberg). I talkedt o Emma's daughter, Lorraine Davis and she said that her mother and grandmother (Breta) talked Norwegian and she could not understand what they said so she knew very littl e about her grandmother. She did not know that her grandmother had all this family that us Hovlands turned outto be.

I have been told that Ener, Ole, Anne, and Martin thought of Breta and Guri as their aunts, I suppose because they were so much older.

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• Residence: Blue Earth, Fairbault MN, USA
• Emigration: 21 Apr 1854, USA

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Faren er Per Hallvardsen Hovland og moren Gunhild Eriksdtr Hola. Ola var først gift med Anne Olsdtr Hatleberg fra Lærdal

Name and place of birth from sons death record as recorded in theFaribault county records. Also found in Ardal bygdeboker page 151 (1) Ole b. 1817 g.m. 1844 Anna Olsdotter Hatleberg f. 1824. Ola Persson Hovland og kona Anna hadde 3 born: Brita f. 1844 Guri f.1848, Peder f. 1852. Heile familien reiste til Am. 21.4.1854.

Ola married Anna Olsdtr HATLEBERG in 1844 in Årdal Kirke, Sogn Og Fjordane. Anna (daughter of Ola Kristensen HILLESTAD and Brita Hallvardsdtr ASPERHEIM) was born in 1824 in Hatleberg 57/1, Borgund; died on 7 Jul 1854 in Spring Prairie, Columbia Co., WI., USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Dane Co., Wisconsin USA
• Emigration: 21 Apr 1854, USA 1

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Hun døde bare noen måneder etter at hun kom til Amerika.

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• Residence: Hatleberg 57/1, Borgund

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Han var først på Nese, hvor første kona kom fra, så kjøpte han Hatleberg i 1809 for 1000 rdl.

Occupation:
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Ola married Brita Hallvardsdtr ASPERHEIM in 1818. Brita was born in 1799 in Asperheim, Årdal; died in 1889. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Hatleberg 57/1, Borgund

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Hun var andre kona til Ola. Hun reiste til Amerika sammen med sønnen Johannes. De reiste med seilskuta Ørnen og kom til Windsor Towship, Dane CO., Wisc.

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• Residence: Hillestad 62/, Borgund

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Han giftet seg med enken Kari Eianrsdtr og fikk Nygård. Han døde da stesønnen overtok gården

Occupation:
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Kristen married Kari Einarsdtr NYGÅRD in 1758. Kari was born in 1726 in Nygård 63/1, Borgund; died in 1814. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Hillestad 62/, Borgund

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da første mannen døde, giftet hun seg umiddelbart igjen med Kristen