Akershus Prison records 1872-1878
How do I access the Akershus Prison records from 1872 -1878?
We think this is our great great grandfather's death record from the Akershus Prison Parish death records.
Name Ole Nilsen Age 52 Death or Burial Date 29 Mar 1878 Death or Burial Place Oslo, Norge Death or Burial Place (Original) Oslo city, Oslo, Oslo, Norge Death Date 25 Birth Year (Estimated) 1826 Event Type Burial Source Call Number SAO/A-10841/F/Fa/L0002 Source Description Church book from Akershus festnings slaveri parish 1852-1883 (0301E1) Entry Number 2 Line Number 1040 Page Number 21 Source Publication Year Range 1852-1883 Affiliate Film Number gr-02869-1852-1882.
Can someone please translate the other information on the entry and tell us how to find additonal information on him.
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The link for your record is here (#2 in 1878): https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/2869/19.
Besides the dates of the record, his name and age, the 6th column of the left hand page indicates that he was sentenced to 11 1/2 years for "gr. Tyveri" which is probably "grovt Tyveri-grand theft". It also looks like a note for him saying that he died in the Rikshospital (in Oslo). I looked there, but did not find any death/burial records for this time period.
The right hand page has two notes concerning him. I think that the first note indicates that he died of a fractured skull as the result of a fall from the loft in the fortress (prison?) gymnasium.
The second note says that his body was not delivered to the "anatomikammeret-anatomy chamber". I am not really sure what that is, but it could be that some bodies of prisoners were delivered to medical schools so that students could use them for dissection. Anyway, that wasn't his fate. The record doesn't say what happened to his body.
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Thank you! Our hope now is that we can find something in the prison records that tells us definitively that he is our's ( a birth place or date and/or list of family members)
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