Christoffer Olsen

1788-1837 · Norway

Born 1788, Stjørdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Died 1837

Children include Peter

Christoffer Olsen, also written Christopher, was born in Stjørdal parish, Nord-Trøndelag, about 1788. He spent nearly his whole life on the farm Bolkan in Skatval, the northern part of the parish. When the census was taken on 1 February 1801 he was there already, a boy of 14 counted among the farm's servants. On 9 October 1803 he was confirmed at Skatval church, written as Christopher Olsen of Bolkan, fourth in the line of boys that day.

By early 1819 he was a bachelor living at Helgaard. On 8 February 1819, in Værnes church, he married Mali Nielsdatter, a widow of Bolkangjerdet. He was 31; she was 32. Bolkangjerdet was a cottar's place under the Bolkan farm, and the marriage brought him back to it. He became its husmann, its cottar: a man who held a small plot on the farmer's land and paid for it in labour days, with no title to the ground.

Three of their children are known. Ole was born at Bolkangjerdet about 1822 and confirmed at Skatval on 1 October 1837. Peter Christian was born on 10 June 1825 and baptised on 7 August. Gurina was baptised on 26 June 1831, when the clerk wrote the family's home as Bolkanplads.

Christoffer died at Bolkan on 23 November 1837 and was buried on 1 December. The burial register calls him husmann at Bolkan. It gives his age as 41 and a half, ten years younger than his marriage and his confirmation make him. Peter Christian was twelve and Gurina six. Ole had been confirmed seven weeks before.

The church went on writing him into his children's records after his death. Peter Christian's confirmation in 1840, Gurina's in 1845 and Peter Christian's marriage in 1848 all name Christoffer Olsen as the father, and Gurina's still calls him the husmann at Bolkanplads.

Children

Peter Christian Christoffersen Bolkan 1825-1881

Sources

Digitalarkivet, Ministerialbok for Stjørdal / Nedre Stjørdal (Værnes) prestegjeld 1845-1858 (1714Q), viede 1848, p. 412 no. 76; transcription pv00000002548394

Digitalarkivet, Ministerialbok for Stjørdal prestegjeld 1820-1832 (1714Q), fødte og døpte 1825, p. 57 no. 143; transcription pd00000011456421

Digitalarkivet (Arkivverket, Norway), Stjørdal parish, Værnes local parish, church book 1815-1819 (1714Q), marriages 1818 page 210 entry 52 and 1819 page 210 entry 3, https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/327/pv00000002311097 and https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/327/pv00000002311107

Digitalarkivet (Arkivverket, Norway), Stjørdal parish church book 1797-1815 (1714Q), confirmations 1803, page 187, entry 4, https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/279/pk00000001910971

Digitalarkivet (Arkivverket, Norway), Stjørdal parish church book 1833-1844 (1714Q), burials 1837-1838, page 482, entry 4, https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/9/pg00000002234621

Stjørdal parish church book 1833-1844 (1714Q), confirmations 1837, page 271, entry 2, Digitalarkivet pk00000001968002

Stjørdal parish church book 1820-1832 (1714Q), baptisms 1831, page 142, entry 154, Digitalarkivet pd00000011461288; church book 1845-1858, confirmations 1845, page 239, entry 28, pk00000002115390

Digitalarkivet, Stjørdal church book 1797-1815 (1714Q) confirmations 1803 p. 187 no. 4 (pk00000001910971); 1801 census for Stjørdal, Bolkan; church book 1815-1819 marriages 1819 p. 210 no. 3 (pv00000002311107); church book 1820-1832 baptisms p. 57 no. 143 and p. 142 no. 154 (pd00000011461288); church book 1833-1844 confirmations p. 271 no. 2 (pk00000001968002) and p. 314 no. 5, burials p. 482 no. 4 (pg00000002234621); church book 1845-1858 confirmations p. 239 no. 28 (pk00000002115390) and marriages p. 412 no. 76

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