Help with an illegitimate birth in Norway

Tanner Blair Tolman

Help with an illegitimate birth in Norway

Hi Everyone,

 

I have a birth record for an illegitimate girl in Brunlanes, Vestfold, Norway. She is Elen Marie baptized 10 January 1804 and her parents never married. I think the record says her father is a soldier named 'Jacob Abrahamsen Houen" and I want to extend his ancestry. In the farm book I found that there was a Jacob Abrahamsen who later settled in Kleiver hamlet. Is it likely that both are the same man? Can you help me identify the correct Jacob?

 

Thanks

-Tanner

 

https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/3068/19634/9

Forrest Emmett

I found a Jacob Abrahamsen in the 1801 census for Brunlanes on a farm as a servant and a "Nat Soldat." Also working on the farm as a servant is an Anne Ellevsdatter. There are only two other Jacob Abrahamsens in that area in 1801. One is way too young and the other is way too old. Here is a link to the census index:

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/census/person/pf01058298001059

I did not look at the farm book, but could you match the farm book Jacob to the 1801 census Jacob? Do they match?

Tanner Blair Tolman

Interesting. That is probably him. I just found a Jacob Abrahamsen born 1775 in Haugene Østre hamlet. Haugene seems to be written Houen sometimes and I bet all three are the same guy.