Omley, Norway?

[Gjest]

Can anyone tell me where Omley, Norway is? The name could be badly
misspelled.

I have a name, Martha Evensdotter, b. 1825 in Omley Norway, also the
abbreviation Amlid. She emigrated to the US by 1845.

The closest I could find in the 1801 census of Norway is Gard: Amlien
Store in Sokn: Toten, Fylke: Oppland. There was an unmarried man 25
years old, named Even Tomassen.

[Stein R]

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Can anyone tell me where Omley, Norway is? The name could be badly
misspelled.

I have a name, Martha Evensdotter, b. 1825 in Omley Norway, also the
abbreviation Amlid. She emigrated to the US by 1845.

Aamlid --> possibly Åmli. "Aa" or in modern writing Å (A-ring)
is a Norwegian character pronounced like "oh".

Åmli is a municipality in SW Norway, not too far from Kristiansand.
They even have a municipal genealogist who can be contacted by
people looking for roots in their municipality:

Kjetil Sigvart Eidskard
Email: [email protected]

The closest I could find in the 1801 census of Norway is Gard: Amlien
Store in Sokn: Toten, Fylke: Oppland. There was an unmarried man 25
years old, named Even Tomassen.

Could probably also be a farm name.


Btw - emigration before 1845 means a very early emigration. The first
emigration group was in 1825, and only a few hundred people a year
left Norway in those early years. The main part of the emigration was
after the US Civil War, with a peak in the 1880s and in the early 1900s:

http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/utstilling/diagram.htm

Stein

[Inger Helene Falch-Jacobs]

[email protected] wrote:

Can anyone tell me where Omley, Norway is? The name could be badly
misspelled.

I have a name, Martha Evensdotter, b. 1825 in Omley Norway, also the
abbreviation Amlid. She emigrated to the US by 1845.

The closest I could find in the 1801 census of Norway is Gard: Amlien
Store in Sokn: Toten, Fylke: Oppland. There was an unmarried man 25
years old, named Even Tomassen.

I agree with Stein, I think it is Åmli in
Aust-Agder county.
Have you seen this:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/ ... 4friendly=

If the link in causing trouble, go to
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/ ... _form=true
and you'll find:

MARTHE EVENSEN
Birth: 02 OCT 1825
Christening: 02 OCT 1825 Aamli, Aust-Agder,
Norway
Father: EVEND LOELSEN
Mother: GUNILD GUNDERSDR

EVEN LOLSEN
GUNNILD GUNDERSDR
Marriage: 27 FEB 1817 Aamli, Aust-Agder, Norway

MARI EVENSEN
Birth: 07 APR 1817
Christening: 02 MAY 1817 Aamli, Aust-Agder,
Norway
Father: EVEN LOLSEN
Mother: GUNEL GUNDERSDR

The name Lolsen/Loelsen was new to me, but there
is a Torbiøn Lølsen in the 1801 census in Omblie.
Here we have the Norwegian ø - "o slash" - that
can indeed be transcribed as oe or o.
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/we ... metanr=290


--
Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen
http://home.no.net/ingernet/

[etos]

"Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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MARTHE EVENSEN
Birth: 02 OCT 1825
Christening: 02 OCT 1825 Aamli, Aust-Agder, Norway
Father: EVEND LOELSEN
Mother: GUNILD GUNDERSDR

EVEN LOLSEN
GUNNILD GUNDERSDR
Marriage: 27 FEB 1817 Aamli, Aust-Agder, Norway

MARI EVENSEN
Birth: 07 APR 1817
Christening: 02 MAY 1817 Aamli, Aust-Agder, Norway
Father: EVEN LOLSEN
Mother: GUNEL GUNDERSDR

The name Lolsen/Loelsen was new to me, but there is a Torbiøn Lølsen in
the 1801 census in Omblie. Here we have the Norwegian ø - "o slash" - that
can indeed be transcribed as oe or o.

Could it be that Even L Olsen has been accidentally syncopated to Even
Loelsen?

Eirik

[Ja]

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:21:41 +0000 (UTC), [email protected];
<[email protected]>;
<soc.genealogy.nordic>:

The closest I could find in the 1801 census of Norway is Gard: Amlien
Store in Sokn: Toten, Fylke: Oppland. There was an unmarried man 25
years old, named Even Tomassen.

That seems to be a farm: Amlien Greater ("Store" is "Great", i.e., there
might be a smaller Amlien, as well (Amlien Lille)

However, I'd rather tend to agree with the suggestion Åmli in
Aust-Agder.
--
/Jan
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