The Peder Syversen Family

The Family of Peder Syversen and Anne Olsdatter (the Birth Family of the Editor's Paternal Grandfather's Father), on the Rønne Farm, Fåberg Parish, Oppland County, Norway. According to the Fåberg parish Viede record of their marriage, 25-year-old Peder Syversen of Rønne farm (the paternal grandfather of the editor's paternal grandfather) married 24-year-old Anne Olsdatter of Rindahl farm on November 12, 1829. Note: an entry in Peder Syversen's bible records the date of their marriage as November 17, 1829. The witnesses to their marriage were Ole Hansen of Rindahl and 36-year-old Christen Engebretsen of Rønne farm.

Ole Pedersen is Born. According to his Døpte, 36-year-old Anne Olsdatter gave birth to a son (Ole Pedersen -- the father of the editor's paternal grandfather) on the Rønne farm, on July 19, 1841.

Even Pedersen is Born. Seven years later, on February 10, 1848, 43-year-old Anne Olsdatter gave birth, to another son, Even. The editor has no information concrning other children to whom Anne Olsdatter may have given birth while the family lived in Norway.

The Family of Peder Syversen and Anne Olsdatter Emigrate from Norway to America. "[Ole] was eighteen... years of age when they came to America... [They] lived in eastern Iowa for two or three years and in 1858 joined the crowd of pioneers flowing into Nicollet County, where they took up a homestead." Minnesota: Land of the Sky Tinted Waters: a History of the State and its People, vol. 5, Theodrore Christianson

The above account confuses the dates. It says Ole was eighteen... years of age when the family came to America, and they lived in eastern Iowa for two or three years before coming to Nicollet County in 1858. However, Ole did not turn eighteen until July 19, 1859. The editor currently assumes that the family of Peder Syversen and Anne Olsdatter emigrated to America in 1857, or 1858, where after passing through eastern Iowa, they settled in Nicollet County, Minnesota, sometime prior to the start of the Civil War.