Individual Notes
Note for: Guri (Julia) Eriksdatter, 24 Sep 1827 - 30 Jan 1916
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Christening: Date: 7 Oct 1827
Place: Bagn, Sor Aurdal, Oppland, Norway
Burial: Date: ABT Feb 1916
Place: Lookout Cemetery, Buffalo, WI
Individual Note: NAME: Also known as "Julia Burn/Burns" in U.S.
BIRTH/CHRISTENING: Bagn sub parish, Sor Aurdal parish, Oppland Co. Norway, FHL film no. 125571, book 13, p. 21, no. 60.
EMIGRATION: Sor Aurdal parish, Oppland Co., Norway, "Out", FHL film no. 307316, book 124, p. 130, no. 5, 31 March 1852, Guri Eriksdr, age 25, 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 17, Julia Birn, age 32, FHL film no. 805411.
CENSUS: 1870, Gilmanton Township, Buffalo Co., WI, page 260, dwelling 1791, line 4, Julie Olson, age 40, FHL film no. 553203.
CENSUS: 1880, Dover Township, Buffalo Co., WI, E.D. 101, page 3, line 9, Julia Burn, age 52, FHL film no. 1255417.
MARRIAGE: Probate records, Buffalo Co., WI.
MARRIAGE: Sor Aurdal parish, FHL film no. 307314, book 122, p. 496, no. 35.
CENSUS: 1895, WI, Buffalo, Dover, FHL film no.FIND!!!
CENSUS: 1900, WI, Buffalo, Dover Town, E.D. 7, sheet 8B, line 66, Guse Bon, age 72, Sept 1827, married 51 yrs, had 13 children and 10 living, to U.S.
1861 (should be 1852), FHL film no. 1241779.
CENSUS: 1905, WI, Buffalo, Town of Dover, stamped page 120, line 58, Julia E. Burns, mother, age 77, Norway, Norway, O M F, FHL film no. 1020441.
CENSUS: 1910, Dover township, Buffalo, WI, E.D. 7, sheet 9B, line 81, Julia Burns, age 82, widowed, to U.S. 1852, can not write, had 10 children, 9 living, FHL film no. 1375715.
DEATH: Death Cert., Buffalo Co., WI rec. #7, p. 453, Julia Burns, born 1828, died Jan 30, 1916, cause was pneumonia and the informant was B.O.
Burns, FHL film no. None.
DEATH: Source is Probate paper, 20 Oct 1917, Buffalo Co. WI, FHL film No. None.
BURIAL: Lookout Church Cemetery, lot 33 (15), 30 feet west of SW corner of church.
SOURCE: Gard og bygd i Sor-Aurdal by Jon Ola Gjermundson, 1987, Vol. A, p. 248, 562, FHL book 948.24/S3 D2g.