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Looking for Bakkelunds...

Corey Johan Bakkelund (View posts)
Posted: 3 Jun 2001 5:14PM GMT
I am looking for information like family trees and things of the like for the Bakkelund family and possibly Christopherson's. My grand father was Johan Kasper Bakkelund and my grand mother was Reta Christopherson.

Bakkelund emigrant from Oslo

Posted: 3 Jun 2001 8:28PM GMT
Edited: 14 Oct 2001 3:02AM GMT
Hi,
Your query didn't really have enough information for a good online search of the Norwegian internet records, but I did search the emigrants for Oslo, and I found a Johan Kasper Ingvald Bakkelund (what a name, usually they didn't have middle names)
Anyway, he is emigrating from Olso on Sept. 1925, he registered at the emigration on the 12th, and then his travel date was the 15th, it says on the ship Stavanger Fjord. His destination was Canada, but could have gone anywhere from there. His occupation is listed as farm worker, and his birthdate is listed as April 23, 1902, from the parish of Vestre Toten, which is located in the Norwegian State, or Fylke of Oppland. It says he is emigrating from Oppland for a better opportunity. Unfortunately, the most recent online census data is for 1900, and he was born 2 years later.
Here is the website where you can see the emigrant list for Johan Kasper Ingvald Bakkelund:
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=n&...

He was listed as unmarried, but on the chance that he might have met his wife on the ship, since there were so many emigrants leaving that day on the 15th, I kept looking for the name and I think I might have found her. Instead of Reta Christopherson, which is quite an "Americanized" spelling, I did find this woman:


224489 Oslo 1925 Septbr. 14 15 Hilma Margretha Kristoffersen f ug (fabr.arb) 16051906 Torp Væsternorrl. Canada Svensk Pas 415 Henriksen Stvr

Leaving Oslo, also on the ship Stavanger fjord, having registered to leave on Sept 14, and then actually departing on Sept. 15, 1925 is Hilma Margretha Kristofferson, (in Norwegian and Swedish the th sounds like a t. So their might be a chance this is her. Her birthdate is May 16, 1906, and she is traveling with a Swedish passport, going to Canada. It also says she is an unmarried factory worker, and had just lived in Torp, Væsternorrland, which is in Sweden, Vasternorrland is like a state or province in Sweden. The correct spelling of Vasternorrland has two dots over the a in Vaster.

Now you need to find out if these two people are your relatives, by checking for more information where they ended up emigrating to, did they stay in Canada, do the birthdates match or are very close?

the Johan Kasper Bakkelund looks like a good match if the dates correspond. The Ingvald part of his name on the emigration record is most likely the patronym, meaning his father's name plus -son or -sen. I do find a family on the 1900 census of Vestre Toten parish in Oppland Norway living on the Bakkelund farm there, and the father's name is Ingvald, and the children who are born at that time have a first name and a middle name and then the Ingvaldsen or Ingvaldsdatter part. So this could be Johan Kasper's birth family:
http://draug.rhd.isv.uit.no/ftsoek/ftsoek.asp?kommando=boste...

Census year: 1900
Municipality: Vestre Toten
Municipality number: 0529
Name of domicile: Bakkelund
Number of persons in this domicile: 5.
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Name Family status Marital status Occupation Birth year Birth place Ethnicity
Ingvald Hansen hf g Arbeider og Pladseier 1876 Vestre Toten Krs
Helene Maria Matiasdatter hm g Arbeiderske 1867 Vestre Toten Krs
Helge Magnus Ingvaldsen s ug Søn 1897 Vestre Toten Krs
Olga Matilde Ingvaldsdatter d ug Datter 1900.05.02 Vestre Toten Krs
Klara Ottilie Hansdatter b ug Tjenestepige 1880 Vestre Toten Krs

The father Ingvald is a worker and a tenant farmer at Bakkelund.

It is possible to find someone on the internet that has a farm and family history book for Vestre Toten area of Oppland. Specify the Bakkelund farm, and the names and dates for the person you want looked up.
The farm I would suggest looking at is main farm number 221, subfarm number 31.
Here is one:
Debbie Hersrud-Hall - email: DLMLH@aol.com
I own the Totens Bygedbok, I am willing to do look-ups.
Here is another lookups volunteer for Toten:
Kari Toomey, email: karit@tiplimo.com

There is a little confusion in the name. The Bakkelund farm is listed as a subfarm (subfarm number 6) under the main farm, (farm number 70) called Nesterud in Vestre Toten. But there is also a farm called Bækkelien in Vestre Toten. So I'm a little confused if the spelling changed, or the dialect or whatever.

Here's another page showing the likely family for Johan Kasper Ingvald. Bakkelund:

http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbas...

And finally, write a better query with more information, and post it to these pages for more action:

http://genforum.genealogy.com/norway/

This is a good page to post the Bakkelund query of Johan Kasper, because people from Oppland look at it:

http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/Norway/Oppland

And this is a good page to post for the Swedish woman, if her dates matched the one I found in the emigration from Oslo the same date as Johan Kasper:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/sweden/

And also try posting a Swedish query here:
http://smultron.com/demo.html

Also try spelling it Västernorrland, where she was from.
Try emailing this woman for help, I see that she is helping people with their queries, maybe she knows Sweden (better than I do, my specialty is Norway)
by Judy Baouab email: judybaouab@aol.com

No one will hand you a finished genealogy, but the fun will be to build it yourself.






Your original query, but do more research at home first:
Subject: Looking for Bakkelunds...

Posted by: Corey Johan Bakkelund
Message: I am looking for information like family trees and things of the like for the Bakkelund family and possibly Christopherson's. My grand father was Johan Kasper Bakkelund and my grand mother was Reta Christopherson.

Re: Looking for Bakkelunds...

Joyce Larsen (View posts)
Posted: 3 Jul 2004 7:25PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Bakkelund
Interesting to see your message. My maiden name is Bakkelund and didn't know any others exist. My Grandfather Gustav Martinsen Bakkelund emmigrated to the United States sometime around 1910. He was born in 1886 in the area of Toten, Norway. His parents were Marthin Barner Gustavsen and Helena Marie Olsdotter. He originally settled in Spring Grove, Minnesota, and married Minnie Rose Kleven. They eventually moved to Montevideo, Minnesota, where he died in 1953. Someone once told me that "Bakkelund" was the name of the farm on which they lived -- not sure about that. Anyway, interesting name and location connections. Hope you're still checking this board.

Re: Looking for Bakkelunds...

Posted: 21 Jul 2005 8:13AM GMT
Classification: Query
PLEASE CHECKSILVER LAKE IOWA MASON CITY LARGE GROUP OF BAKKELUNDS IN THAT AREA, SILVER LAKE LUTHER CEMETERY HAS MANY BURIED THERE

Re: Looking for Bakkelunds...

PR (View posts)
Posted: 29 Jul 2005 2:00PM GMT
Classification: Query
Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives) website in Norway indicates that Gustav Martinsen Bakkelund left from Oslo/Kristiania on or about 6 April 1906 heading for Minnesota. He is listed as 19 years old and coming from Vestre Toten in Oppland, Norway.
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbas...
He must have returned to Norway at least once for some reason because he leaves again from Oslo/Kristiania on or about 27 March 1909. He lists his residence as 'Amerika' and he is still unmarried. This entry gives his birthday as 30 Sept 1886.
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbas...

The 1900 Norwegian census shows a group of 5 farms by the name of Bakkelund in Vestre Toten, Oppland.
Gustav is living on one of those farms with his widowed mother, Maria Olsdatter, and his younger sister, Helga at the time of that census.
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbas...

The 1865 Norwegian census shows a 5 yr old Martin Gustavsen with his parents then living on a farm by the name of "Øfstaas vestre" in Vestre Toten, Oppland.
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbas...

Re: Looking for Bakkelunds...

Joyce Larsen (View posts)
Posted: 30 Jul 2005 12:23AM GMT
Classification: Query
Thanks to 'PR' for the reply. This is is my Grandfather. The other information I have fits perfectly with this. Again, thanks!

Re: Looking for Bakkelunds...

Posted: 1 Nov 2014 5:43PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Baddelunds
Hi Joyce, wondering if you can help me. I was wondering about information about Hilda. Can you help me at all?
thank you Sue
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