Looking for Info on Olaf Aslaksen Skare a.k.a. Scarvie

[Reinapol]

Hello Bill,

It's not known yet why your family took the name "Scarvie". But it must be the name of the place they have been living in Norway before emigrating (I guess)

The difficulty with these (farm)names is that this place where they did live could have been a small piece of ground with one or two houses on it and a name. Which name could have disappeared, when the houses did not exist anymore at that place. Even worse: if the name of the place did refer to a so called "huusmand place" (this was a little cottage with a name, leased at the farm with another name, owned by someone else), the so called huusmand-plass name disappeared, when the cottage did not exist anymore.

In your case I do not know about the (farm) name Scarvie.

Maybe you should ask Norway-List

In the mean time I could find your Aslak Olsen back.

Wedding took place in Kviteseid same book, weddings (ekteviede) 1846 page
nr 403 # 14 Aslak Olsen Leilendungsön + Sigrid Saamundsdr Vraalie both aged 21
His father Ole Drengsen, her father Saamund Tarjesen

At this wedding it is said that Aslak Olsen grew up in Skafse and was born in Napper. She was born in Vraalie.


Confirmation in Skafså i Mo 1841 page 267: 1841 Aslak Olsen Naper
baptised in Skafse Kirke 29 august 1824

Parents Ole Drengsen + Signe Gjermundsdr...Naper

(Child) vaccinated 14 Januar 1827 by ....Anundsen



His baptism can be found in Skafså i Mo 1824 at page nr 23

Parents lived at Seltvedt at that time



Wedding 1823 in Skafså i Mo page nr 196 #6:

Ole Drengsen skoleholder 25 aar + Signe Gjermundsdr 32 aar

Best men: Ole Gjem. Storelie and Gjermund Olsen Tveten af Vermsagen?



See

http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read



choose Fylke Telemark and than Mo parish/Skafså and the right book and year and page nr.



Kind regards

Reina