Marcelle On the www.familysearch.org website there is a baptism on 10th November 1861 at Stromso, Buskerud, Norway, for a Hans Smith GRONVOLD, son to Peder S. GRONVOLD and his wife Karen [born PEDERSDATTER.] It would appear, searching that batch for other children born around that time to a Peder and Karen GRONVOLD that they also had a large number of other children born in Stromso between 1860 and 1872 including names such as Helga, Rasmus, Sara, Peder and Julius as well as Hans Smith....Are these familiar to you from your Ships’ Arrivals List? I would imagine, from the various baptism entries for children with the same names that this couple also lost some children in infancy. The last entry I can find for this couple is a baptism for their son Rasmus Grønvold at Stromso on 1st April 1872...so if the family arrived in Australia some months later in 1872 I would think there is a strong possibility you now have your man! Oh, by the way, I should think this is the marriage for Peder to Karen: Peder Sirka GRONVOLD, age 30, married Karen PEDERSDR (PEDERSDATTER), age 24, on 25th April 1859 at Stromso, Buskerud, Norway. Groom's father Hans GRONVOLD, Bride's father Peder JOHANNESEN. If I'm right you have a large GRONVOLD family to research in Stromso! Good luck! Diane Researching ABSOLON ex Norfolk/Suffolk England to Queensland Australia Message: 3 Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:31:24 +0800 From: "mvs" <[email protected]> Subject: [AUS-QLD] GRONVOLD Hans Schmidt To: "QUEENSLAND ROOTSWEB" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi List, Can anyone tell me anything about the above person. The only thing I can find is an Immigration record for Hans Gronvold arriving in Keppel Bay in 1872 aged 10 aboard the Shakespeare with a very large family on the Index to Registers of Immigrant Ships' Arrivals 1848-1912. We have a Hans S Gronvold in our family who died in 1937 in Western Australia. The surname has been changed over time to Grenvold but I can find nothing under that spelling except after 1915 when he married Grace L Stevens in WA. Hope someone out there is related or has info. Cheers & thanks Marcelle Western Australia