Marith Olsdatter QVALE

1835 - 1885  (50 years)

• Name	Marith Olsdatter QVALE
  Birth	5 Apr 1835	Vang i Valdres, Oppland Fylke, Norway   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	10 May 1835	Vang i Valdres, Oppland Fylke, Norway   [2, 3]
  Emigration	1862	Vang i Valdres, Oppland Fylke, Norway   [4]
  	Her name is entered in the Vang church book (#14) on 22 Mar 1862 as intending to emigrate to America with her children Ole age 6 and Jørgen age 4. Her age is given as 27.
  Residence	1880	Kerkhoven Township, Swift County, Minnesota, USA   [5]
  	She was listed as Merit Ellingbo (age 46) with sons Ole (age 23) amd Andrew (age 18). Above her name, without listing him as her son was George Ellingbo (age 21) with occupation given as teaching.
  Death	27 Dec 1885	Kerkhoven Township, Swift County, Minnesota, USA   [6, 7]
  Notes	Marit was the illegitimate daughter of Ole Christopherson Kvåle and Kirsti Simonsdatter Lajord (or Søyne), according to the Vang church books, but I could not find anything about this in Anders Frøholm's Vang A. The emigration records for Vang show that on 22 Mar 1862, Marith Olsdotter Ellingböe, widow, age 27, intended to travel to America with her two sons, Ole Olson (age 6) and Jörgen Olson (age 4). Marit was married in 1857 to Ola Jørnsson (born 1831, died between 1859 and 1862), who farmed a piece of land called "Plassen, Nørre Plassen or Jørnplassen, under Ellingbø, Nigarden, no. 33/1. According to the 1885 Minnesota census, her son Andrew was born in Ontario, although Arta Juneau believes that he was born soon after Marit's arrival in Northfield, Minnesota, where her brother Tosten Quamme was already living. Apparently she never remarried and had a difficult life, dying in her sixties.
  Person ID	I8255	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	5 Mar 2012

  
  

  Family ID

  F569

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• Sources

  [S131] Gravestone, Inscription on gravestone at West Norway Lake Lutheran Church Cemetery for birth reads 6 Apr 1835, according to Curt Ellingboe. (Reliability: 3). [S125] Vang Church Books, (Records found in original books at Hamar State Archives, LDS microfilm, or Digital Archives.), Oppland fylke, Vang, Ministerialbok nr. 5 (1831-1845), F?dte og d?pte 1835, side 14. http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:NBN:no-a1450-kb20070207650373.jpg (Reliability: 3). [S125] Vang Church Books, (Records found in original books at Hamar State Archives, LDS microfilm, or Digital Archives.), Oppland fylke, Vang, Klokkerbok nr. 4 (1835-1892), F?dte og d?pte 1834-1835, side 4. http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:NBN:no-a1450-kb10040807102006.jpg (Reliability: 3). [S2] Frøholm, Anders, Vang A, (Valdres Bygdeboks Forlag, 1985), p. 573 (Reliability: 3). [S150] U.S. Federal Census, 1880, Kerkhoven Township, Swift County, Minnesota (Reliability: 3). [S166] Personal Correspondence, Curt Ellingboe, from Swift County records. (Reliability: 3). Her date of death is from the Swift County, Minnesota, death records and matches the date on her grave stone at the West Norway Lake Lutheran Church cemetery. The grave stone lists her date of birth as 6 April 1835. [S131] Gravestone, West Norway Lake Lutheran Church Cemetery, according to Curt Ellingboe (Reliability: 3).