Since he was a husmand (cotter) it is a sub farm, a small place beloging to a bigger farm. It was quite normal that they took the farm name as surname when emigrating, Hans Den 04.05.2017 08:53, skrev Bev Anderson: > http://gda.arkivverket.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&sidenr=1&filnamn=f60521&gardpostnr=497&personpostnr=2898&merk=2898#ovre > > https://digitalarkivet.arkivverket.no/en-gb/ft/bosted_land/bf01038063003831 > > > For the Borkerud farm there is this note: For Pladsene Borkeruds og > Thorstadhagens Vedkommende, se Anm. ved Løbe No. 124 > > Does that mean Borkerud is a sub-farm of Thorstadhagens? > > Anton adopted the surname Thorstad even before he got to America since > he's listed with the name in the emigration record. This is a twig > far out on my family tree. > > Mange Takk! > > Bev > > > > > 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Thanks Hans! :-) I tried to do a word-for-word translation and got lost.... [Lack of sleep!] Bev On 5/4/2017 2:13 AM, Hans Myhre wrote: > Since he was a husmand (cotter) it is a sub farm, a small place > beloging to a bigger farm. > It was quite normal that they took the farm name as surname when > emigrating, > Hans > > > Den 04.05.2017 08:53, skrev Bev Anderson: >> http://gda.arkivverket.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&sidenr=1&filnamn=f60521&gardpostnr=497&personpostnr=2898&merk=2898#ovre >> >> https://digitalarkivet.arkivverket.no/en-gb/ft/bosted_land/bf01038063003831 >> >> >> For the Borkerud farm there is this note: For Pladsene Borkeruds og >> Thorstadhagens Vedkommende, se Anm. ved Løbe No. 124 >> >> Does that mean Borkerud is a sub-farm of Thorstadhagens? >> >> Anton adopted the surname Thorstad even before he got to America >> since he's listed with the name in the emigration record. This is a >> twig far out on my family tree. >> >> Mange Takk! >> >> Bev >> >> >> >> >> 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 >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message