Farm location

[Gordon Anderson]

In the county of Østfold in Norway, the 1801 census (using Digitalarkivet)
and searching for a farm named Bergsland, I find one in the parish of
Warthøy, clerical district of Thunøe.

Question 1.-Is Thunøe the old name for Tune?
2.-Is Warthøy an island, and if so would it be located near
Sarpsborg?

Thanks for any assistance.

Gordon Anderson

[21663]

Hi,

You are quite correct, Thunøe is (one of) the former spelling(s) of Tune.

Warthøy is the municipality ("kommune" in Norwegian) of Varteig. It has also been written Warte (and probably also a lot of other different spellings). Varteig (Warthøy) belonged under the municipality Tune until 1st. of January 1861. Then it became an independent municipality until 1991, when the municipalities of Sarpsborg, Skjeberg, Tune and Varteig were merged.

Varteig is located some 10-15km north-east of the town of Sarpsborg.

The farm Bergsland is located east in Varteig, close to Ise on the border between former municipalities Varteig and Skjeberg.

If you follow this link: http://maps.google.no/maps?f=d&hl=no&ge ... &z=12&om=1
, you will find a (not very good, but anyhow a) map of the area. (If you zoom on "Ise" you will find a road named Bergslandveien (The Bergsland road).)

best regards,
Alexander

[Jan]

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:18:12 GMT, "Gordon Anderson"
<ganderson7@verizon.net>; <Uu7Ni.9816$Jk2.7942@trndny03>;
<soc.genealogy.nordic>:

Question 1.-Is Thunøe the old name for Tune?

As Alexander said: Yes.

the -øe ending tells us that it is a name of an island. Many places
with "ø", "øe", "øy" which aren't islands today, have been islands,
but are now part of mainland because the land is rising in relation to
the ocean (after the ice left quite a while ago; examples in the
region: Thorsø, Ullerø, Onsø/Onsøy, named after norse mythological
gods Thor, Ull, and Odin). But Tune/Tunø is still an island (not the
part where Varteig is), surrounded by water: two arms of the river
Glomma, dividing north of Tunø and rejoining south of Tunø, and a
waterfall in either arm.
--
/Jan
<jan@jpharo.net>

[Hugh Watkins]

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Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:18:12 GMT, "Gordon Anderson"
ganderson7@verizon.net>; <Uu7Ni.9816$Jk2.7942@trndny03>;
soc.genealogy.nordic>:

Question 1.-Is Thunøe the old name for Tune?

As Alexander said: Yes.

the -øe ending tells us that it is a name of an island. Many places
with "ø", "øe", "øy" which aren't islands today, have been islands,
but are now part of mainland because the land is rising in relation to
the ocean (after the ice left quite a while ago; examples in the
region: Thorsø, Ullerø, Onsø/Onsøy, named after norse mythological
gods Thor, Ull, and Odin). But Tune/Tunø is still an island (not the
part where Varteig is), surrounded by water: two arms of the river
Glomma, dividing north of Tunø and rejoining south of Tunø, and a
waterfall in either arm.

also in english

endingd -ey -y are often scandiavian names

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_England

-ness too a point

-ford
= Fjord if an inlet

Hugh W