Hei! Christensa Torbjørnsdatter is a sister of my great grandfather, which moved from Luster to Rossfjordstraumen, Lenvik parish. I have a lot of information about this people and you can find them on my site http://home.online.no/~afivelan/Familie.htm One of their sons, Johannes Pedersen, moved to Kvæfjord, but I have no more information about that. Liv Fiveland "Knut Bryn" <Knut.Bryn@himolde.no> wrote in message news:39B1CCD4.F8F0530B@himolde.no... > "J. Peterson" wrote: > > > Supposedly, my g-g-grand-parent, Lars Theigen emmigrated from Norway > > in 1882 along with his wife to Vernon County, Wisconsin in the U.S.. > > His wife's last name was either "Olene Olson" or possibly a "Hanson". > > For some reason, once they arrived in the U.S., they changed their > > last name to Peterson. I was told that there was a small village by > > the name of "Theigen" in Norway but don't know if that is actually > > where they came from. > > This must be Lars Pederson Teigen that Dag Hoelseth pointed out. He was > born at Teigen under Sandvik farm in Luster parish (Gaupne subparish) > 1848.09.08. He was the 6th child (of 10) of Peder Pederson Teigen > (1809-1885) from Aurland parish and Christenca Torbjørnsdatter Eikum > (1813-1883) from Hafslo. Lars emigrated to Crawford Co. in 1882 and > married there 1887.06.01 with Oline Olsdatter. Lars (called Louis) and > Oline (called Olena) farmed at Rush Creek, Freeman township, Crawford > Co. and got 11 children: Elmer, Peter, Lottie, Christina, John, Steen, > Anna, Rudolph, Alfred, Oscar, and Hannah. > > Quite a lot more details are found in the bygdebook for Luster which is > my source. If you want to find out where Teigen is, you have to find > Marifjøra in Luster (Lyster) on a map of Western Norway. Teigen is about > 2 km along the coast southeast of Marifjøra. > > The g-g-grandmother of my wife emigrated to Crawford in 1874. She later > on moved to Sterling in Vernon, but some of her children settled in > Freeman. > > Knut Bryn, Molde