Ancestors

Ole Aslaksen

b. 1796 · Holt parish, Norway
Born 1796, Holt parish, Norway
Father: Aslak Knudsen
Mother: Birte Olsdatter
Children include Jens

Ole Aslaksen was baptized in Holt church on 13 November 1796, son of Aslak Knudsen and Birte Olsdatter of Joranstad, a farm in Holt parish behind Tvedestrand. He was the eldest of their six known children. The parish history of Holt calls him a skipper.

On 16 September 1822 he married Thore Oline Ellefsdatter in Holt church. Both were living at Joranstad, he twenty-five and she twenty-four. Her father, Ellev Olsen, held the largest share of the farm, and Ole's father held another. Their first child, Anne Bergitte, was baptized six months later.

They christened at least five children from the farm: Anne Bergitte in 1823, Ellef in 1824, Andreas in 1826, Ingeborg Oline in 1830 and Jens in 1835. The clerk wrote the boys Ellef Olsen, Andreas Olsen and Jens Olsen, with a patronymic made from Ole's own name. At Jens's baptism in April 1835 he was entered as Skipper Ole Aslachsen.

He died before 1865, when his widow was keeping a house of her own in Tvedestrand. Two burials of an Ole Aslaksen are indexed at Holt, in December 1853 and February 1860, and neither gives an age.

Sources

Church book of Holt parish 1820-1835 (Digitalarkivet source 811), folio 128, baptisms 1835, boys, no. 23; index pd00000037196729.
Holt church books 1765-1798, 1813-1823 and 1820-1835; Holmestrand church book 1868; 1865 census; all at Digitalarkivet; Holt: en bygdebok (1940)

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