Faberg Parish, Oppland, Norway
I am looking for a marriage record for 1710 that someone listed on my tree for Faberg Parish, Oppland County, but there are no records for at that time. Where would a 1710 marriage be for that area?
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Looking in the Digitalarkivet, the earliest parish records for Fåberg are in1727. This means there probably is no marriage record. What does the marriage information look like in Family Tree? Just year and place or a full date? Is there a source listed or not? If there is just a year, place, and no source then I suspect the original contributor just copied it out of a bygdebok or just estimated it.
The bygdebok author would likely have gotten it out of some archive or other record cache not easily available to the average researcher or been able to determine from such records that the couple were not married in 1709 but were in 1711.
Someone estimating the date would have taken something like the couple having a fourth child in 1728 and worked backwards from there.
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Thank you. Another question - have you heard the term "not a free woman". This dates back to the late 1500's with an ancestor who married into a prominent family and he lost his power because she was "not a free woman". I didn't see anyone had recorded she had a previous marriage.
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I have not run across that before but I don't generally work that far back. A quick google search brought up this: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1436&context=hc_sas_etds where it states:
Certain colonies in Scandinavia lacked women. Female slaves were imported to ensure the survival of the colony. In the early records, some of the names of the mothers are missing, suggesting that slaves were the mothers of these children and that the father decided to leave the name off as the mother was not a free woman (Jochens 1995).
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Thank you again! Interesting thought. This not free woman was in meloy, Moreland so far to the north. The husbands family was orignally from Denmark.
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Husband's family was from Denmark? Could it have been that she was not a slave, just a Norwegian? That is, not of the ruling class? I don't know enough history that far back to do more than speculate. I really don't know the relationship between the Danes and the Norwegians in the years that Denmark ruled the country. Sounds like you have some interesting research ahead of you.
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I think a lot of people have done a great deal on the husband’s family, the Benkestock family. (I see my phone changed nordland to Moreland in my correspondence earlier, sorry I didn’t catch that.) It is an interesting line and would be more so if it was in English! I believe there are periodic meetings about the on going genealogical research.
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