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From: Elaine Hamm <>
Subject: Re: records of probates In Vik, Sognfjord
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 11:01:39 -0800


Lon Westphal wrote:
>
> On 29-Nov-98, Ed Hamm wrote:
> >Hi list,
> >One of my grandfathers, Erik Kjellson Honsi Hopperstad, is a pain.
> > The bygdebok for Vik says he was a wealthy man
>
> Elaine
>
> Since you are researching Hopperstad is there a connection to the following?
>
> 1. AMUND BOTOLVSEN (BALAFSEN/BALLEFSEN/BALFSAZ ?) HOPPERSTAD
> Born: 1859
> Died:
> Administrator/Bank Director: Jon Ivarsen Rislow; Vik-j-sogn, Norway
> (Uncle to Ole Amundson)
> Married: INGA & AMUND did not marry but it appears from a 1958 bygdabok
> that Amund married someone else. The book says that 4 of his
> children from his marriage came to America but all returned to
> Norway.
> Mother of Ole: INGA (STALHEIM) JOHNSDATTER (John's daughter)
> Born: January 11, 1854 (1855-from Ole's confirmation document)
> Died: February 1, 1936 or 1937 at 83 yrs of age.
>
> 2.a. OLE (OLA, OLAV ?) AMUNDSON HOPPERSTAD (HOPPERSTEAD)
> Born: November 19, 1883 at Hopperstad, Vik-j-sogn, Norway
> Died: December7, 1965 of old age (82) in a rest home in
> Houston, TX - Cremated
> Immigrated to the U.S. about 1902
> Confirmation/
> Christened: December 23, 1883 (from Konfirmationsdag - Apr. 17, 1898)
> Baptized: July 24, 1884
> Vik Sogn, Norway
> Viks Prasfeggold??
> Signed: Anna Ohnstad
>
> Lon Westphal
>
>
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Mine is Erik Johanneson Hopperstad who was a child of Johannes
Hermundson Tenål and Brita Eriksdtr Hopperstad who was the only child of
the Eirik who died at sea in 1802

elaine

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