Help with a Norwegian name
I'm looking at the following marriage record for Ole Halvorsen Loqvam, left column under the line drawn halfway down the page:
https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/9271/44940/56
His spouse is Ragnil Emertsdr. That's what it looks like to me and the indexes on both FS and Ancestry spell it as Emertsdr. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GHYN-QQN
I am also referencing an online Norwegian genealogy for Oyer, Oppland, Norway that has this individual's name spelled as Engebretsdatter.
http://kaldor.no/oyergenealogy/getperson.php?personID=I9120&tree=oyer
Is Emertsdr just a misreading of the church record and it should be Engebretsdatter? Or is this a more modern spelling of the same name? Anybody have any insight? Thanks!
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Although it looks like Ragnil Emertsd. from Hapaland, Emert is not a nordic name, based on my sources. It could be sloppy penmanship on the part of the priest.
I found 9 residents of Louqvam in the 1801 census and 36 on Kvam in the same census, but no one that look like they were connected with Ole and Ragnil.
I could not find Louqvam, or similar derivative on norgeskart.no, but I did find Kvam in Øyer.
Here is the record original christening record for their last child Engebret, christened 28 May 1767:
https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/9271/108
Perhaps someone else can chime in with more help.
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Hi @jmartinekenes jmartinekenes , hope you are well!
In the marriage record, the bride's name looks like Emertsdr. to me. Emert doesn't show up in nordicnameswiki ( https://www.nordicnames.de/namefinder/ ), but Emmert does (although, it is a Danish or Swedish name). There is a farm book available for Øyer parish ( 948.24/O1 H2 ) that could shed some light on the origin of Engebretsdatter? Hopefully the Family History Library will be open again soon, and we can look this kind of information up!
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Good catch, Norm! We're doing fine. Hope you are too.
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