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henry Bjelland and brother carl bjelland (King Oscar Sardine Co.)

sarha mills (View posts)
Posted: 22 Aug 2001 7:35AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: bjelland
need help to find out more about the family business, The King Oscar Sardine Co.
If anyone knows more info. on the owners and their descendents or any inheretances or legal documents on the business . it will surely help alot.

Re: henry Bjelland and brother carl bjelland (King Oscar Sardine Co.)

Margaret Overland (View posts)
Posted: 6 Dec 2002 3:18PM GMT
Classification: Query
I don't know who Henry and Carl are, unless those names are Americanized from the Norwegian.

My Great-Grandfather was Hans Bjelland and his brother was Christian Bjelland. Their father's name was Rasmus and I believe their mother's name was Oline. Christian Bjelland formed the King Oscar Sardine company in Stavanger, Norway. It was known as the Christian Bjelland Company until sometime in the '70's when it was sold to a larger company. A statue of Christian Bjelland is in Stavanger.

Hans emigrated to Minneapolis, MN and brought up his family there. He married Anna Forseth from Trondheim.

Their children were:
Daughter - Ruth - Who traveled with her father on a visit back to Norway to visit her family. She met a man working for her Uncle Christian named Sverre Henricksen. She remained in Norway. Her children are Sverre Jr., Hans Christian and Ann Katherine.
Daughter - Seraphia
Son - Harald
Son - Clifford - My grandfather.

As far as I know any inheritance would be with the family in Norway. I know Christian Bjelland was married a couple of times, but I don't remember if he had any children. I do believe I have that information somewhere at home.

Re: henry Bjelland and brother carl bjelland (King Oscar Sardine Co.)

Posted: 1 Aug 2003 10:30AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 9 Jan 2004 1:50PM GMT
Surnames: bjelland hulver king oscar sardine co
my great great grandfather is hulver bjelland and his son is henry bjellan when henry migrated to america he changed his last name to american spelling which is now weland, my grandfather had told the family before he died that his grandfather was part owner in the king oscar sardine co.he was told that his great grandfather had a living will that his children and grandchildren and so fourth would be entitled to their share of the estate.my aunt has some papers put away to that my grandfather had saved but uncertain of what to do,

Re: henry Bjelland and brother carl bjelland (King Oscar Sardine Co.)

Karen (View posts)
Posted: 20 Jul 2006 3:10PM GMT
Classification: Query
Why are you interested in it. If you are looking for inheritence, I don't think you'll be getting any. Are you a descendent? The Bjellands that left for America were from Christian Bjelland's second wife, the woman was only his stepdaughter. They live in NYC I think and say that they are related to Christian Bjelland with a statue in STavanger etc. when they actually aren't by blood at all. Christian Bjelland stepdaughted moved to the states when she realized she wouldn't inherit anything I believe as she wasn't his daughter and he ended up divorcing her mother.

Re: henry Bjelland and brother carl bjelland (King Oscar Sardine Co.)

Margaret (View posts)
Posted: 15 Nov 2006 2:27AM GMT
Classification: Query
Very interesting. I hadn't heard about details of Christian Bjelland's second wife. I agree. Any inheiritence was long ago distributed. If something were left unclaimed I'm sure I would have heard of it growing up. My Grandfather's sister Ruth lived into her 80's and being Christian Bjelland's niece living in Stavanger, the family probably would have talked about it.

Re: henry Bjelland and brother carl bjelland (King Oscar Sardine Co.)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 3:23PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Bjelland, Buland, Akre
It's been quite a few years since your reply was posted but I thought I'd give a response a try anyway. According to our family (verbal for the most part) history, my great-grandfather and the original Christian Bjelland tried to start the sardine company a couple of times but the ventures failed for whatever reason. My father's favorite story was that his grandfather loaned his top hat to Christian (they were close friends) when he (first, I guess) got married. My great-grandfather went on to other venture and of course that's when the King Oscar Sardine company prospered. My grandfather did own a sardine barrel manufacturing company in Stavanger but it burned to the ground. After a dispute with the Norwegian government over some business issue, my grandfather started an auto and tractor business in Argentina. I still have some postcards and business cards that confirms this. My grandfather married an Akre in Stavanger and tried to bring her to North Dakota early in their marriage but she hated the small town atmosphere (ironic, since when I visited Stavanger in 1958 when it at the time clearly just a small fishing village) and insisted on moving back to Norway. So some of my father's brothers were born in the US and some in Norway (e.g. my father).
My grandfather's company in Argentina was nationalized and my grandparents wound up in New York.
I worked in Stavanger for a year and one half from 1978 to late 1979 and a Norwegian colleague of mine helped me trace my paternal ancestry every lunch hour at the state archives in Stavanger. (As fate would have it, my office was in the old C. Bjelland/King Oscar building down by the strand). My mother was from Arendal/Risor.
Regards to anyone who reads this and has an interest in Bjelland geneology (by the way, my grandfather sometimes spelled his name Buland and you will find his brother, Walter Buland, in any online search of pro football. I have a postcard addressed to my grandfather in Argentina from Walt ("Big Boy") Buland. The postcard depicts his team at the time, the 1910 Minneapolis Marines. The latter was well-known in the Twin Cities area and ran a bar after the end of his pro-football career. He died in his 40s and his obit (I have a copy) mentions my grandfather in NY.
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