Individual Notes
Note for: Elen Marie Svendsdr, 6 Mar 1842 - 7 Apr 1871
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Christening: Date: 24 Apr 1842
Place: , Raade, Ostfold, Norway
Burial: Date: 14 Apr 1871
Place: , Tune, Ostfold, Norway
Individual Note: NAME: Also Ellen.
BIRTH/CHRISTENING: Raade parish, FHL film no. 255786, book 5, p. 47, no. 28.
DEATH/BURIAL: Tune parish, FHL film no. 255795, book 15, p. 224, no. 35, age 29, name is Marie Svensd.
Individual Notes
Note for: Ole Olsen Boen, 26 Feb 1825 - 2 Mar 1901
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Christening: Date: 27 Mar 1825
Place: Bagn, Sor Aurdal, Oppland, Norway
Burial: Date: 5 Mar 1901
Place: Lookout Cemetery, Buffalo, WI
Individual Note: NAME: Also found on records in the U.S. as Ole Olson Burns, Ole Olson Boen, Ole Olson Burn, Ole Olson Born, Ole Olson, Ole O. Bon, Ola Oleson, Ole O.
Born, Ole O. Burns, Ole O. Burn Sr., Ole O. Burn, Ole B. Olson, Oley O. Burns, and Ole Birn. The Norway farm name Boen in Norwegian has a / though the o and sounds like Burn.
BIRTH/CHRISTENING: Sor Aurdal parish, FHL film no. 125571 (1815-1840), book 12, p.180, no. 28.
CHRISTENING: Bagn sub parish is also spelled Bang and Bangs.
CHRISTENING: Aurdal parish divided into Sor(South) Aurdal and Nord(North) Aurdal parishes in 1805.
MARRIAGE: Sor Aurdal parish (1841-1849), FHL film no. 307314, book 122, p. 496, no.35.
EMIGRATION: Sor Aurdal parish "Out" or leaving the parish record, FHL film no. 307316, book 124, p. 130, no. 4, 31 March 1852, Ole Olsen Boen, born 26 Feb 1827, to America in 1852.
EMIGRATION: Speculated routes, methods and dates from Norway to Wisconsin taken by the BOEN (BURNS) family in 1852.
31 March 1852 (firm) Father Ole, mother Guri (Julia), son Ole and daughter Kjersti left sub parish Reinli under Sor-Aurdal parish in Oppland County and traveled south to Christiania (Oslo), Norway. The distance to Christiania (Olso) is about 90 miles. It is possible that they pulled a cart or had a cow pulling the cart and Ole and Guri (Julia) walked. They maybe covered 5 miles a day.
17 April 1852 Arrived in Christiania (Olso), Norway
18 April 1852 to 14 June 1852 Maybe the family was on a waiting list for a ship and Ole worked someplace.
15 June 1852 Boarded in Christiania (Olso) the three masted sailing ship Argo bound for Quebec, Canada.
The cost was the equivalent of about $22 U.S. for each adult and 1/2 price for children or about $66 total.
12 August 1852 Arrived at Quebec, Canada
14 August 1852 Boarded a large steamship and traveled on the St.Lawrence to Montreal, Canada
15 August 1852 Arrived at Montreal, Canada
15 August 1852 Boarded a steamship to Toronto, Canada
17 August 1852 Arrived at Toronto, Canada
18 August 1852 Went by wagon to Kingston, Canada
18 August 1852 Boarded a steamship to Buffalo, New York
19 August 1852 MAYBE boarded the steam side-wheeler passenger ship SS Atlantic in Buffalo, New York and traveled on Lake Erie bound for Detroit, Michigan with 576 passengers of which 132 were Norwegians to a place near Long Point, Canada
20 August 1852 (firm) About 2:30 a.m. there was a collision with the propeller ship Ogdensburg and the ship Atlantic sank. Their child Kjersti might have drowned. About 300 of the 576 passengers drowned. 68 Norwegians parished. Ole's brother Bjorn and entire family perished.
20 August 1852 About 250 passengers were rescued by the ship Ogdensburg. The survivors were then transferred to another steamship that brought them to Detroit, Michigan.
23 August 1852 Arrived in Detroit, Michigan
23 August 1852 Traveled by train from Detroit to Kalamazoo, Michigan
25 August 1852 Traveled by wagon from Kalamazoo to Grand Haven, Michigan
30 August 1852 Boarded a ship at Grand Haven, Michigan on Lake Michigan bound for Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2 September 1852 Arrived in the port of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
4 September 1852 Joined a wagon train to Dane County, Wisconsin
20 September 1852 Arrived in Dane County, Wisconsin
Sources: "Lloyd's Steamboat and Railroad Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters", methods and dates from Norway to 1856, pp. 148-150; "Ships that never die"; "Disaster on Lake Erie in 1852" by Nanna Egidius and all; "The Norwegian Settler's Story", Amund O,Eidsmoe"s Story of His Own Life; "Immigrant Disaster on the Great Lakes", 1986, Dr. Conrad M. Thompson, Sons of Norway Magazine, Aug 1986; Railroad maps, Library of Congress Web site. Jon Schweitzer - Speculator 4 June 2003
MOVED: To a farm in Green Co., Adams Twp. after July 1853 and before 1855 census.
CENSUS: 1855, WI, Green, Adams Township, 2nd page of Adams Co., 18 names down, Ola Oleson, 4 males, 1 female, 3 of foreign birth, FHL film no.
1032687.
CENSUS: 1860, WI, Green, Adams Township, page 27, line 16, Ole Birn, age 36, $500 Real Estate, $100 Personal Estate, FHL film no. 805411.
MILITARY: Volunteer enlistment in the F Co. 46 Regiment of the WI Volunteers as a private on 23 Jan 1865 at York (township in Green Co.) WI. Blue eyes, brown hair, dark complexion and 5'4". Muster-out 27 Sep 1865 at Nashville, TN. Military records are from the National Archives.
WI 46th Inf Co F. Residence: Adams, Green County, Wisconsin. Enlistment credited to Clarno, Green County. Born in Norway. Civil War: Farmer. Age 39. Married. Farmer. Blue eyes, brown hair, dark complexion, 5'4". Enlisted for one year on 23 Jan 1865 at York, Wisconsin. Mustered 11 Feb 1865 at Madison, Wisconsin. Bounty $100. Private. Left Madison by rail on 5 Mar 1865, bound for Louisville, Kentucky. Left Louisville for Camp Athens, Alabama, arriving there on 24 Apr 1865. This regiment served guard duty along the Nashville & Decatur railroad for about five months. Mustered out with his company on 27 Sep 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee. Arrived back in Madison on 2 Oct 1865. Sources: (WHS Series 1200 box 186-13,22; red book vol 51) ("The Military History of Wisconsin" by E.B. Quiner, publ 1866.) "Born, Ole"CENSUS: 1865, WI, Green, Adams Township, page (4) of Adams Co., 8/10 down,
Oley O. Burns, 4 males, 5 females, 4 of foreign birth, FHL film no. 1306084.
MOVED: To a farm in Gilmanton Township in 1870 which later became Dover Township.
CENSUS: 1870, Gilmanton Township, Buffalo Co., WI, page 260, dwelling 1791, line 3, Ole B. Olson, age 46, R.E. $400, P.E. $200, FHL film no. 553203.
HOMESTEAD LAND: NW 1/4 of NW 1/4 in section 27 of township 23N of range 10W, 40 acres. SW 1/4 of SW 1/4 in section 22 of township 23N of range 10W, 40 acres Buffalo Co., WI. Both purchased Sept. 23, 1872 and patented Nov. 20, 1877. Records are from the BLM and National Archives.
CENSUS: 1875, WI, Buffalo, Dover, page 24, line 3, Ole O. Burn, 5 males, 7 females, FHL film no. 1032689, item 5.
CENSUS: 1880, Dover Township, Buffalo Co., WI, E.D. 101, page 3, stamped page 356, line 8, Ole O. Burn, age 55, farmer, FHL film no. 1255417.
CENSUS: 1885, WI, Buffalo, Town of Dover, 2nd image, right page, line 9, Ole O. Burn Sr, 2 males, 3 females, 3 U.S., 2 Scand., FHL film no. 1032695.
MILITARY: 1890 Census, Dover Township, Buffalo Co., WI, E.D. 33, page 1, no. 8, Ole O. Burns alias Ole O. Born, Company F, Regiment 46, WI infantry, private, 23 Jan 1865 to 27 Sep 1865, FHL fiche no. 6334307 or FHL film no. 338275.
CENSUS: 1895, Dover Township, Buffalo Co., WI, page 1, Ole O. Burn, 3 males, 1 female, FHL film no. 1032705.
CENSUS: 1900, WI, Buffalo, Dover Town, E.D. 7, sheet 8B, line 65, Ole O. Bon, age 74, born Feb 1826, married 51 yrs, to U.S. 1861 (should be 1852), NA, FHL film no. 1241779.
DEATH: Source is the probate paper of wife Julia (Guri) on 20 Oct 1917 in Buffalo Co. WI.
DEATH: Kjentvet & Son Funeral Home, letter from Joe Smith on 24 Oct 1991 to Jon Schweitzer, "Ole died of Cancer 2 Mar 1901, funeral on 5 Mar 1901, funeral ordered by son Ole Olsen".
BURIAL: Lookout Church Cemetery, lot 33 (15), 30 feet west of SW corner of church, Lookout, Buffalo, WI. His gravestone reads: Ole O. Burn, Alder (age) 76 years 2 days, Dode (died) 3 March 1901.
SOURCE: Gard og bygd i Sor-Aurdal by Jon Ola Gjermundson, 1987, Vol. A, p. 248, 562, FHL book 948.24/S3 D2g.