#41 - who died?

Margie Dilworth

#41 - who died?

https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/9924/46924/11

 

April 20, 1910 death record: Who died? Tellef Olsen or his wife Ragnild Halversdatter.

Buried at Mykland (Aust-Agder)?

Died at Ytre Lovrak? Or is that where they were living?

Thank you.

Gordon Collett

His wife.

 

To go over the entire line:

 

Year: 1810

Buried at: Møkland's Church

Funeral: 20 May

Died: 21 April

Person: Tellef Olsen Yttre Løvraks = Løvrak's wife Ragnild Halvorsdatter

Age: 53

 

Yttre Løvrak was the farm name they were using so you can assume that was her residence at time of death. Whether she actually died at home or way from home, these older records never say.

 

When you run across questions like this, done forget to take advantage of the great work the Norwegian archives have done transcribing these records. It's far from complete, but it is always worthwhile checking the side bar to see if the records you are working in have been transcribed and are searchable:

 

 

It always works best to use wildcard searches. The two I use the most are * which replaces an unlimited number of letters and | which allows two searches at once. You do have to use at least two letters or numbers. Putting be* under first name finds every first name starting with Be. Searching residence for *vig finds every residence ending in vig. Searching birth year 181*|182* will give every birth year from 1810 through 1829. Sometimes you do have to play around with the search terms to figure out which fields are used for the particular set of records you are in. For example, if you try to search using birthplace in this particular set of death records your results will always be 0 because these death records never include birth place.

 

Since you have the record you want in front on you, it is easy to see how the record would be transcribed and search for rag* hal*

giving you the expected result:

 

 

and a nice clear reading and explanation of the record:

 

 

 

Many of these older death records include in addition to the name of the person who died the name of the Pårørende - the person affected by the death. As far as I have ever seen, this is always the person's father if a minor, or husband if a married woman. On the page of records you are looking at, as you scan down you will see many records where there is a man's name ending in an extra s (Norwegian doesn't use the apostrophe like we do in English for the possessive) followed Barn or Kone.

Margie Dilworth

Thank you for clarifying the record for me. And thank you for including so much information on how to use the Norwegian archive. I knew about the wild card use, but didn't understand about the side bar. Your information will be a real help.