Thank you both very much for your help.

Michelle Larsen

Hi, could I please have help reading the marriage banns record for Carl Theodor Lofgren and Marthe Marie Andersdatter in the Aker parish register, Oslo, 1853-1857, page 325, entry no. 160

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I am particularly interested in the part about Carl Theodor Lofgren. The words are a bit different from ...

Thank you Vidar - I did suspect this ancestor of being the 'Chief fish weigher' of Bergen, but it seems a rather odd fit in my family.

Two hours here till New Year!
Best Wishes for 2008.

May I please have help with the translation of 'Overfiskevejer'. I often come across this prefix 'Over' in front of occupations - does it have a general meaning?

Thanks
Michelle Larsen

Thank you everyone.

Michelle

Thank you for your help, Ketil. Sorry, I should have mentioned that Murer is the family name which originally came from Germany. There is another 'occupation' word after Gudmund Murer's name on these birth/baptism records but I can not find any word to match it in my Norwegian dictionaries. Gudmund ...

Could I please have help with a word in the following parish register:

Domkirken, Bergen 1841-1851 Ministerialbok, Fødte og døpte menn, 1845, page 63, no. 131 Heinrich Johan Friele Murer
and also 1847, page 81, no. 62 Leonhardt Frederik Saabye Murer.

I would like to know the occupation of ...

Hi Erik

I have not had any luck in finding your Lars Olsen. The only one I could find was in Victoria and he is probably too young. Here are the details anyway:

Lars Olsen born Norway married Ada Annie Cliff in 1884 Victoria
Children:
Ernest Lars born 1885 Port Melbourne
Ada Annie Olina ...

Hi Erik

I think we can rule out Queensland but not the other two states. He may also have entered Australia as a sailor who jumped ship, therefore he would not be on passenger lists. There is a book at the library listing people who jumped ship but it doesn't give any details other than name. I ...

Hi Erik

Back again! Could his middle name be Peter?

There was a Lars Peter Olsen married an Eliza Maria Nielsen in 1888 in Queensland and they appeared to have only one child (in Queensland), Laura Amalie Olsen in 1896.

There was a Lars P. Olsen who came to Queensland on the 'Friedeburg' 20 ...

Hi Erik

I'm afraid you might be right about the needle in the haystack! Lars Olsen is such a common name. I have just checked the 'assisted' immigration into Queensland for the 1870s and there were several Lars Olsens but none the right age or even close. Nothing under Olesen or Lauritz Olsen ...

Hi Vidar

Is there anything I could do to help with this query? I can't understand most of it, sorry!

Michelle Larsen
Queensland, Australia

Hi Per

I have received your post. Thank you very much. I really enjoyed watching the DVD of Molde. It gave an excellent coverage of your district. What a beautiful place! I was always in love with the fjords of Norway when I was a child and never knew I had connections with the place until ...

Hi Hege

I could email photos of Leonhardt Frederik Saabye Murer and family and Murer clan of København to you if you give me your email address.

Hi Per

Your post is on the way.

Michelle Larsen

OK - I will send post to you this coming week.

Per - I have discovered a forum on emigrants to Australia/New Zealand on this website. Do you think it would be useful to offer my help to people looking for family in Australia. Our online records are not as good as yours but most states have birth, death and marriages records online. There are ...

I will proceed to find you a nice postcard - although I don't think we can quite match the beauty of Molde around here but at least the weather is warm, beautiful and sunny and it is the middle of winter.
I have a few more bits and pieces which you may like. A photo of Leonhardt, his wife ...

I would be grateful for information on the ancestors of Henriette Falkenskjold Muller born 27 December 1769 Trondheim, died 30 April 1849 Bergen.
She married Johan Henrik Stamann Friele of Bergen.

I would be grateful for information on ancestors of Ellev Hansen born about 1759, kjøpmann, married Anna Magdalena Bruun on 5 January 1787 Christiania, died 5 April 1825 Christiania.
Anna Magdalena Bruun was baptised 13 June 1764 Christiania Domkirke and was buried 2 January 1837 Christiania. Her ...

Thank you Per for clarifying my translations for me. Sorry to bombard you with so many questions. Thanks for alerting me to another marriage for Anna Magdalene Friele to Hans Fryd.

Thank you for those kind words. Google can lead you to all corners of the world. Hello to all my relatives in Norway! I think I have managed to translate all the entries regarding Gudmand Murer but would just like to check with you that I have the correct understanding. Gudmand had an affair with an ...

Hi, I am a great, great, great granddaughter of Gudmund Friedrich Murer. I am descended from his granddaughter who emigrated to Australia. I am able to understand a little Norwegian and Danish and can tell the information on this forum is very important to my understanding of the Murer history. I ...