I am looking for information on ships leaving Norway (probably Bergen) in 1854. My great grandparents came in that year: John Hansson Stokkebø b. 18 Jan 1829 @ Balestrand Norway; Malena Nilsdtr Bruhjeld Stokkebø b. 3 May 1826 @ Bruhjeld farm, Balestrand Norway; with my grandfather: Hans H. Johnson b. 12 Jan 1853 @ Stokkebø farm; his older brother Nils & Malena's mother (my great great grandmother) Synneva Larsdtr Skasheim. Any HINTS would be appreciated. Jim Johnson, St. Cloud, MN.

At 08:55 AM 2002-05-03 -0400, JimandMar@aol.com wrote: >I am looking for information on ships leaving Norway (probably Bergen) in >1854. My great grandparents came in that year: John Hansson Stokkebø b. 18 >Jan 1829 @ Balestrand Norway; Malena Nilsdtr Bruhjeld Stokkebø b. 3 May 1826 >@ Bruhjeld farm, Balestrand Norway; with my grandfather: Hans H. Johnson b. >12 Jan 1853 @ Stokkebø farm; his older brother Nils & Malena's mother (my >great great grandmother) Synneva Larsdtr Skasheim. Any HINTS would be >appreciated. > >Jim Johnson, St. Cloud, MN. Hi Jim, I would say that a Bergen departure would be spot on. On the SS&A... Solem, Swiggum & Austheim - Emigration from Norway - SS&A http://www.norwayheritage.com/ships/index.asp ... I find these three ships, Bergen-Quebec in 1854 Brig Condor, Capt. Stranger Bergen May 11 Quebec June 25 Brig Odin, Capt. Bacher Bergen Apr. 24 Quebec July 2 Brig Harald Haarfagre, Capt. Harris Bergen May 3 Quebec July 10 There is a list of Odin male (head of household?) passengers extracted from Morgenbladet (contemporary newspaper) but I don't see a name close to Stokkebø. This might reduce the possible ships to two! 1854 was a huge immigration year. One late May day in New York for instance, "12,471 immigrants were brought into the Quarantine." Even though the St. Lawrence was late opening that year, the summer of 1854 was very hot, which created hardship for the new arrivals, and there was an outbreak of cholera, which claimed a lot of lives, including many Norwegians. This website below has extracted articles from the Windsor Star newspaper. (brown background makes it a little hard to read) The article states "The trek of those ill-fated Norwegians began probably from Norway's Sognefjord region in May 1854" so this could very well be a description of the conditions for your emigrants http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/7051/cholera1.html follow-up articles http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/7051/cholera3.html http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/7051/cholera2.html Sue --