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Knud and Marit Lyseng

Knud and Marit Lyseng

Marcia Johnson (View posts)
Posted: 12 Sep 2005 11:20PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Halvorslien, Lyseng, Lysing
I would like to find out where this family settled after arriving in America in 1868. Before they and 3 sons, Erick, Knud and Albert moved to this county they were living in Big Stone County, Minnesota; however, have not found them in the 1870 and 1880 censuses. My great grandfather, Simen Olsen (all of these folks from Gausdel Parish, Oppland County, Norway) was traveling with them and family history states that Simen died shortly after arriving and is buried near Northfield. There is both a Northfield, Minnesota and a Northfield, Wisconsin so don't know which place. Just possibly it was where this family was living in 1870. Does anybody have any information about the Lysengs. Their names on the passenger list was Knud Ingebretsen Halvorslien and Marit Eriksdatter (where did the name Lyseng come from, I don't know. Or maybe Simen did not follow them after arriving in America - who knows. Thank you.
Marcia Johnson
from Minnesota

Re: Knud and Marit Lyseng

Adele (View posts)
Posted: 13 Sep 2005 7:25AM GMT
Classification: Query
There is a 1883 BLM record that I think is your Knut Lyseng

Minnesota Land Records
Name: KNUT K LYSENG
Land Office: BENSON
Document Number: 5472
Total Acres: 160
Misc. Doc. Nr.: 9256
Signature: Yes
Canceled Document: No
Issue Date: April 3, 1883
Mineral Rights Reserved: No
Metes and Bounds: No
Statutory Reference: 12 Stat. 392
Multiple Warantee Names: No
Act or Treaty: May 20, 1862
Multiple Patentee Names: No
Entry Classification: Homestead Entry Original



On the 1906 Census of Canada for Alberta, District #21 (Strathcona), Subdistrict 19b on page 8 you will find Lyseng / Loiseng Knut 83 years and his wife Marit 78 years living at 10-48-21 W4 immigrated to Canada in 1901 according to the Census. And on page 9 you will find Lyseng Knut K 47 years along with a number of his children living at 15-48-21 W4 immigrated to Canada in 1902 according to the Census.
The Census is available on-line at: http://www.archives.ca/02/020153_e.html
You can search the Alberta Family Histories Society transcriptions of this at http://www.afhs.ab.ca/data/census/1906/index.html

Knut, Marit and a number of their children and their spouses are buried in the Scandia Lutheran Cemetery, Armena, AB, which you can search on-line at
http://www.angelfire.com/ab/camrosecountychurch/SLC.html

I will inquire of a sister to one of Knut K's daughters-in-law to see if she knows where the Lyseng came from but I suspect it may be a corruption of the 'slien' in Halvorslien.

You will find mention of Lysengs in the Camrose, Armena, Hay Lakes and perhaps Gwynne areas of Alberta. Some of the Local History Books for these areas have a lot of information on the various Lyseng families.

Adele


Re: Knud and Marit Lyseng

Marcia Johnson (View posts)
Posted: 14 Sep 2005 9:26PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Lyseng
Thank you for your response to my message about the Lysengs. I did find the cemetery index for this family. I appreciate your help.
Marcia

Re: Knud and Marit Lyseng

A.Tinn (View posts)
Posted: 4 Oct 2005 3:35AM GMT
Classification: Query
The family in the 1865 Norwegian census. They lived on a farm called Halvorslien in Gausdal, Oppland with 4 sons and 2 daughters.
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbas...

Note the birthplaces for Knud and Marit. Knud was from the Lyseng farm in Nord-Aurdal (one of the districts in the area commonly called Valdres), Oppland.
The 1865 census also shows an older man still living on that farm who may be Knud's father.

1870 US census shows the three sons living in Big Stone Co., Minnesota. The son Albert was originally named Engebret/Ingebret in Norway.

Re: Knud and Marit Lyseng

Daryl Lyseng (View posts)
Posted: 30 Mar 2006 6:57AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Lyseng
Hi!

I am a great-great grandson of Knud. There are also two books that conatin Lyseng family histories. One book is a locally produced book from the 1970's called Footprints Along the Stoney. The other is an American book written in the 1960's by Anna Hong.

Knud, along with his three sons, Albert, Knud & Erick, took out a square 10,000 acres in the Armena area - which is about 50 miles south of Edmonton. I am told that they moved from the homestead farm in Minnesota because there was free land to be had up in Canada. They arrrived around 1901.

After arriving in the Amrena area, the help build the Scandia church - the original which was a classic white church with a black-roofed spire-type bell tower. Unfortunately it burned down. They also set up a Lyseng School in the Armena area. Erick Lyseng - my great-grandfather was also one of the founders of the Camrose Lutheran College, which is now called Augustana College and is part of the University of Alberta. In the Armena area there is a reservior that is now called Lyseng Reserviour. It s a bird sacntuary. The reserviour borders the homestead farms of Erick and Albert Lyseng. Those farms are still owned by Lysengs.

In the Anna Hong book I think she has the Family history traced back to the 1600's. I have been told that other historians have since traced our history back to Denmark. This could be as Norway was under Denmark's rule during the unon known as the Kalmar Union. They Lyseng name is very common in Denmark. There is a Lyseng Farm in the Valdres area of Norway - where our ancestors lived. I saw an old map in the Hong book. On that map the name Lyseng was spelled Ljöseng. It could have ben a Swedish map - as the Norwegians use this ø. The name Lyseng means Light in the Valley in Norwegian.

I don't know if this helps - let me know if there is anything else I might be able to help you with.

Re: Knud and Marit Lyseng

Posted: 30 Dec 2006 3:12AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Lyseng, Olson, Hendrickson, Hong
I am a great grand-daughter of Knut and Marit. I have done quite a lot of research and have information about them. I have written a rather extensive narrative, so can share information and details about where they lived and when. Knut's father, Engebret Knudson Lyseng and his wife Marit Ellingsdatter Holdal Lyseng emigrated from Norway before Knut and Marit with another of their children. They lived first in Wisconsin in the community of Valders, WI, with their daughter Anne Lyseng Thorsen Fylken and her family, later moving on to Goodhue County, MN, to live with their son, Elling Engebretsen. Engebret Lyseng would be the older man living on Lyseng farm mentioned in the census in one of the queries. He died in Goodhue County, Minnesota in 1871 and is buried at Minneola Lutheran Cemetery. His wife, Marit went back to Wisconsin to live with daughter Anne and her family after that. She died there in 1877 and is buried in West Valders Cemetery. My grandmother was Mathea, Knut and Marit's youngest daughter. She was the only one born after their emigration from Norway. She was born in Benson, Minnesota in 1870 and raised near Clinton, Minnesota, where she lived until she married Henrik Hendrickson in 1888. Near Clinton is a lake called Lyseng Lake. It is next to the Lyseng homestead land. My grandmother, Mathea, immigrated to Camrose, Alberta, Canada along with her parents (Knut and Marit),the three brothers mentioned and her husband and seven of her thirteen children in 1901. I have always wondered what happened to Simen Olson. My dad (who remembers Knut Lyseng), said that he thought that Simen was a friend was had traveled ahead of his family and attached himself to the Lyseng family to help out with their many children in exchange for his passage. Knut and Marit emigrated from Gausdal even though their ancestral Lyseng farm and rest of the family were in Valdres because they had lived in Gausdal on Halvorslien farm for several years helping Knut's widowed sister, Marit Lyseng Hong after her husband's death. I would love to find out more about Simen Olsen just to fill in pieces of the story in my mind and to verify what my dad told me. I have both books mentioned and can look things up.

Re: Knud and Marit Lyseng

Posted: 3 Nov 2007 11:19PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello Daryl I have just read you entree and I too have a very similar history. I do have the two books you mention - Footprints along the Stoney and Our Norwegian Ancestors. My maternal Grandparents must have been "neigbours" in Armena area. You may have read about that family in the Grandfather Elling Olson and his twin brothers Ole and John also arrived in AB in 1901 to buy land in the Pretty Hill Footprints. My grandmothers brother John P Tandberg was the first President of the Camrose Luthern College.
Their lives paralled - came from Valdes Norway to MS Chippewa, Havelock Township. Then to AB and the same homesteading area. I certainly new many Lysengs in the past.
I was just browsing and when I saw your entry I had to say Hello to a similar background.
My mother Alice Olson married a Scotsman James Findlater in 1926. My sister and I were born and raised in Camrose.

Cheers
betty ewart

Re: Knud and Marit Lyseng

Posted: 15 Mar 2008 2:50PM GMT
Classification: Bible
Just read your message. I am the genealogist for the Valdres Samband and I have just been working with the Lyseng who went to Alberta Canada for another memeber. check out our website www.valdressamband.org for more information. I am limited to helping members of our group.

Be Gunelson

Re: Knud and Marit Lyseng

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 1:11AM GMT
Classification: Query
Ran across your Lyseng, I am a Thorson from Clinton, Minnesota, I have Lyseng relative in my family some are buried in St. Pauli Cementary. outh of Clinton.

Becky Thorson Powell
3toomany@nvc.net

Re: Knud and Marit Lyseng

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 8:42PM GMT
Classification: Query
The Master Surname Index (not online) (mostly burials in Alberta cemeteries) of the Alberta Genealogical Society lists 80 LYSENG names, including;

Knut E. LYSENG, 29 Feb 1824 - 27 Jan 1917.
Knut LYSENG, 1856 - 1032.
Marit E. LYSENG, 10 Jul 1828 - 20 Jun 1902.
All buried in the Scandia Norwegian Lutheran cemetery at Armenia.

For further research please contact the AGS Research Services Committee of the Edmonton Branch,
http://abgensoc.ca/

Peter
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