The 1865 census for Kragerø lists a great grand uncle as a Sturmand - does that refer to a ship mate occupation. On the same census a great great grandmother is listed as a Spiseværtinde - does that have something to do with eating. I looked up these two words in a recent Norwegian-English dictionary - that is where I got my ideas of what they might have to do with. Sent from my iPad John Ferman Minneapolis, MN

http://home.online.no/~otjoerge/files/word.htm spisevært landlord, host of a dinner establishment, eating house keeper styrmand (see "stymann") styrmann ships mate On 5/6/15, John Ferman via <norway@rootsweb.com> wrote: > The 1865 census for Kragerø lists a great grand uncle as a Sturmand - does > that refer to a ship mate occupation. On the same census a great great > grandmother is listed as a Spiseværtinde - does that have something to do > with eating. I looked up these two words in a recent Norwegian-English > dictionary - that is where I got my ideas of what they might have to do > with. > > Sent from my iPad > John Ferman > Minneapolis, MN > > > Norwaylist > Archiveshttp://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=norway > > RESUBSCRIBE UNSUB > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/NOR/NORWAY.html > > guidelines http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~norway/guidelines.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message