Ancestors

Gunnild Arntsdatter

Gunnild Arntsdatter, written Gunild, Gunhild and once Gunhille, was born about 1787 on the farm Vikan in Stjørdal parish, Nord-Trøndelag. Her father, Arnt Pedersen, farmed Vikan; her mother was Solloug Hansdatter. In the census of 1 February 1801 she was 14, the eldest daughter at home, with brothers Peder and two named Hans and sisters Mali, Mallena and Johanna. Her father died in February 1807.

On 23 November 1818, at Værnes church, she married Ole Andersen, a bachelor and farmer of Myhr in Skatval, aged 27. She was 31, written as a bonde datter, a farmer's daughter, of Vikan. Their daughter Anne was born at Myhr on 26 February 1823 and baptised on 30 March. By then Ole was an inderst, a lodger with no land.

Ole died on 24 May 1824. Gunnild was left a widow at 37 with a daughter of fifteen months, and she stayed at Myhr.

On 25 June 1835 she married again, at Værnes. The bride was Enke Gunnild Arntsdatter of Myhr, born at Vigen, aged 48; the clerk entered her father as Arnt Pedersen. The groom was Ole Olsen, a bachelor and farmer's son born at Hvalstad and living at Myhr, aged 31 and a half, son of Ole Pedersen. He was seventeen years her junior. Ole Olsen became a farmer at Myhr, and Gunnild a farmer's wife.

Her daughter Anne was confirmed at Skatval in 1837 and married Peter Christian Christophersen of Bolkgjerdet in 1848, still living at Myhr. Gunnild lived to see Anne's first children born: Ole in 1849, a Christoffer in 1850 who did not live, and Kristoffer in 1854.

Gunnild died at Myhr on 28 January 1855, aged 68, and was buried on 13 February. The burial register calls her gaardmandskone, a farmer's wife.

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Cite: Heirology, "Gunnild Arntsdatter (1787-1855)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/gunnild-arntsdatter-1787-1855-7b2596.