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Hvidston Family - Kviste, Norway

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Hvidston Family - Kviste, Norway

Val Hvidston (View posts)
Posted: 13 Nov 1999 10:26PM GMT
The Hvidston family I am researching is outlined below. More information is available at http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/v/i/Val-G-Hvidston

Gunnar Nilsen Hvidsten was born the 31 July 1863 to Nils Olsen Hvidsten.

He married Helene Monsdtr Alver the 2nd November 1882. Helene had been born 19 September 1857 to Mons O. Geitreim and Anna Olsdotter Nonaas.

Gunnar came from Kviste (very small place of 10-30 families) on Radoy (oy means island, Radoy has a few farms and a small pier) and took over the farm Myra, Alver in Alversund (sund means strait, soun, neck of water). Alversund lies on the island of Radoy about 15 miles north of Bergen, a city on the western coast of Norway. (The 'o' in Radoy should have a / through it.) Kviste is a tiny part of Manger county or kommune.

About 4 miles north-west of Alversund there is a place called Kvitstein. The name Kvitstein is a Norwegian version of Danish Hvidsten. Norway and Denmark formed a union from about the year 1400 to 1814. During this period Danish was the dominating language. English white = Danish hvid = Norwegian hvit or kvit (in Norway there are two languages). English stone = Danish sten = Norwegian stein.

Hvidsten is not a widely used name in Norway. Hvidsten is spelled and misspelled in many ways: Hvidsteen, Hvidten, Hvitstein, Hvitsteen, Withsten and so on. Some Canadian Hvidsten's changed their name to Widsten. The name Hvidsten came from a farm called Hvidsten. Three or four families (unrelated) have taken that name as their own.

According to some research that Carl Hvidsten (not related) did in Norway, the first Hvidsten record appears in the Norwegian Archives in Oslo, Norway in the year 1578. The statement that the Hvidsten name is not considered usual around Kristianea Fjordan, and that Hvidsten rather appears to represent a hill or a stone area of whitish color lying on high ground to identify the location of the farm. "Hvid" in Norwegian language means "White", "sten" means "stone". Other spellings of the name in 1578 are "Hvidstein", "Visstain", "Hvitstten", and "Hvidsteenn". In 1661 "Hvidsteen, and in 1723 Hvidstee, and in 1781 - Hvidsten.

Gunnar died 31 October 1944 and Helene on 1 May 1954.

Gunnar and Helene had eight children: Anne Marie (1883), Mathilda (1884), Nils (1886), Hildur (1888), Anna (1892), Ole (1895), Gerhard (1899) and Ingolf (1902).
SubjectAuthorDate Posted
Val Hvidston 14 Nov 1999 5:26AM GMT 
pepzi 28 May 2001 7:10PM GMT 
Val 29 May 2001 3:58AM GMT 
andrew (andy) Hvidston 21 May 2003 5:38AM GMT 
valhvidston 30 Sep 2004 2:29AM GMT 
mhvidston 24 Jun 2009 2:44AM GMT 
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