Dear Greg and other Listers! A very belated thank you to Greg for your reply to this inquiry of mine from January. I have had this message pending in my inbox not knowing what to do next, so I decided today I would send it again. This Roland aka Robert A. Urness just has to be somewhere, and I have run up against a «brick wall» trying to find him. If he did return to ND, as Greg suggests, he cannot have stayed there, since no Robert Urness appears to be recorded in the ND death index. If anyone has any ideas at all as to what may have become of Roland/Robert, I would be very happy to learn about it! Obviously his date and place of death would be «top priority» to me… PS: This Roland/Robert had a 1st cousin also named Roland aka Robert A. Urness (1875-1958) who lived in Durand, WI, but he is NOT the one I am looking for here... Thanks again for your great assistance in this matter! Very sincerely yours, Lars E. Oyane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > On Jan 6, 2017, at 12:14 PM, Gregory Holter <[email protected]> wrote: > > I spent some time looking around for this guy but couldn't come up with anything useful. I was hoping to be able to find something, having connections to Casselton myself. But I got to wondering if he may have returned to the U.S. after going to Saskatchewan for awhile. He seemed to move around quite a bit, probably for work. By this time, the railroad line from North Dakota up into Saskatchewan was in place and operating. It would have been easy to come back down into the U.S. to resume work for someone he had previously worked for. > > > Greg Holter > > > From: Lars E. Oyane <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, January 6, 2017 1:25 AM > Subject: [NOR] Robert Urness - born Norway 1878 - moved 1927 to Saskatoon, SK - what became of him? > > Dear Listers! > > Another emigrant from Luster County, Norway has disappeared, and I hope for some assistance to figure out what became of him? > > Roland Anfindson Teigen aka Robert A. Urness > born Feb. 14, 1878 in Hafslo parish, Luster Co., Norway > emigrated 1899 to Stanley, Chippewa Co., WI (lumber yard laborer) > lived 1920 in Koochiching Co., MN (logger) > lived 1918 and 1927 at Casselton, Cass Co., ND (farm laborer) > > then moved in 1927 as a single man to Saskatoon, SK where he knew someone named Gunvald(?) Thompson, at least that’s what I believe it says in the migration record on ancestry.com! > > But what happened to Robert Urness after 1927? > > When his father died in Norway in 1933, there is no mention of Robert at all, so maybe he had died by then? > > Thanks a million in advance for your great assistance in this matter! > > Very sincerely yours, > > Lars E. Oyane > >