The Birth Families of the Grandparents of the Editor's Paternal Grandparents
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The Hans Olsen Family
The Family of Hans Olsen and Marthe Andersdatter (the Birth Family of the Paternal Grandmother of the Editor's Paternal Grandmother), on the Kauserud Farm, Toten Parish, Oppland County, Norway. Hans Olsen was a great-grandfather of the editor's paternal grandmother. In the year of the Census, 70-year-old Farmer Hans Olsen and his 58-year-old wife, Marthe
Andersdatter, were residng on the Kauserud farm with two grown children, a son (18) and a daughter (21), and an 11-year-old daughter, Christine (Kirstine) Hansdatter.
The editor has no information regarding the parents of Hans and Marthe.
Christine Hansdatter's Døpte records the date of her birth as March 5, 1788; the Toten Økomuseum.
confirms the year. Her 57-year-old father's name is recorded, in Christine's Døpte, as Hans "Listrud". Hans Olsen and his 45-year-old wife probably were living on the Listerud farm at the time of her birth. Note: 29-year-old Ole
[Kristiansen] of Listerud was one of Christine's baptismal witnesses.
