Jørgen Oleson Wold

Y haplogroup I1 as per a tested ggg-grandson

His parents married in 1825, 9 years after his birth . Record is here, line 7, on right:
https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/8123/40189/6

DNA testing has since shown that perhaps his father was actually JahnJahnsen Westby not Ole Kristiansen Imjelt. See https://blog.kittycooper.com/2020/05/who-is-my-great-great-grandfat......

Baptismal record for Jørgen top left line at https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/8124/16 and transcribed here https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/255/pd00000038994749

and in LDS film #0127642: In the 2nd book (ministerialbok), 2nd item on the film: page 28, 64th boy baptized in the year (boys are on one page, girls on the next and numbered separately); Jørgen, born 29 Sep, baptized 2 Oct 1816 at home. Father bachelor Ole Christiansen of Imjelt gard/farm. Mother, unmarried woman, Beate Janjørgensd. from Jarlsbergværk. Uagte (out of wedlock); Godparents: Anne Nilsd., Svarterud; Anne Sofia Larsd. (can't read farm); Christian Nielsen, Jordbrek; bachelor Henrik Janjørgensen; bachelor Lars Halvorsen. In the 1st book, these last two are shown as being from Svarterud gard, and the mother (Beathe) from Svarterud also.

Marriage: same film, ministerialbok: p. 401, marriage #7 in 1825: 19 June 1825; groom, Ole Christiansen, Flaaten gard, age 27 1/2 (28 in other copy); bride Beathe Jahn Jørgensd. of Eghold (can't read in other copy, but not Egholt), age 33 (30 in other copy). Witnesses: Tollev Sjeldrum and Hans Flaaten (only farm names shown, no patronymics).

Baptism: same film, p. 66 boy #1, Christian, born 6 Mar, bap. 14 Mar 1825. Father laborer (arbeidsmand) Ole Christiansen, Mellom Flaaten; Mother: Beathe Jahn Jørgensdt. Godparents: Birthe Andersd., Jordbreck; Maren Olsd., Aaserud; husmand Knud Biornsen, Furuvold; Hans Johannesen, Imjelt; bachelor Peder Hansen of Aaserud. (didn't check this one in the 2nd book for differences)

Note that here is his family group in the 1865 census (before he took the surname WOLD) from Skoger Municipality number: 0712 Name of domicile: Torgervolden https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/census/person/pf01038109002638

in the birth records of the children before Sophie, the family is living at Imjelt but are at Tørjevollen when she is born in March 1858

The first to take the WOLD surname was Jørgen Oleson Wold, (originaly Jørn Tørjevollen) born September 29, 1816 in Skoger, Vestfold, Norway. He married Anna Knudsdatter, born abt 1818 Rollag in Numedal.

In 1868, Jørn also went to America together with his children Maren, Birgitte, Sopie and Herman. At that time they travelled by sailships, and the voyage lasted for 7 weeks. It is told they brought with them something like rusks (skonrokk) for food. While Jørn and the children lived in America, Anne worked as a dairy-maid at Vesle-Gravdal, but lived at Tørjevollen during the winter. In 1875 Anne also went to America (7 years after Jørn). In 1877-78 Jørn returned home, and a little after Anne also returned. They now lived at Tørjervollen until Jørn died in 1892.

These photos must have been taken on his return.

Farm Book Translation:

Source: Folk og fàr, by Skoger historielag.

Plass 50: Tørjervollen. (Plass = the little farmhouse and field where the farmhand and his family lived).

Tørjevollen - or Torgersvollen/Terjevoll as it also has been called is a very old place. It is situated towards south-east in Rønnehue hill. Today the place is overgrown and situated in an old foot-path half-way between Rønnehue and Stallane. Even today the path can be difficult to follow, but if one uses the road throug the wood to Tørjevollsfråa, where Tryttjerbekken and Raubekken (two streams) meets, one can find the outline of the place 3-400 meters up in the hillside of Rønnehue hill. In the rapids of the stream below it was once an old saw(mill) "oppgangsag".

But, to return to the place Tørjevollen, which was situated in a sunny place in the steep ground. - here I skipped something written about the first people who lived here.-

-Therafter Jørn Tørjevoll lived there. His surname, he probably has got after he came here in about 1843. He was married to Anne, who had been in the service of Westby at the farm Søndre Imjelt. She was the sister of Jon and Per Stallane, and came from Landerud in Rollag (Buskerud). About Anne it is told when she moved to Tørjevollen, she had walked all the way from Rollag. Not only that, but she had been walking and knitting, and in addition she had carried a pot to boil "prim" or something like whey in (primgryte, made of cast iron).

About Jørn Tørjevollen it was said "he had got brains", and he had by himself learned how to write, and teached his children to write. Jørn had worked as a foreman by/with/for? Torkel Westby - also called Imjelten, and Jørn was then called Jørn "accurate or exact", not a bad nickname. Anne and Jørn had the following children, 5 girls and 4 boys:

1. Olava - who later lived at Rønnehue. See under next part.

2. Martinius - later Woll carriage-factory in Drammen.

3. Johanne - married to Kristen Øya.

4. Anton - went to America, but returned home again.

5. Karl - went to America.

6. Maren - she worked for many years as dairy-maid at Imjeltsetra (seter = summer pastur). Later she went to America together with her father, and there she married one Lee.

Census of 1865 shows:https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/census/person/pf01038109002638 Municipality: Skoger Municipality number: 0712 Name of domicile: Torgervolden Number of persons in this domicile: 8 Name Family status Marital status Occupation Birth year Place of birth Ethnicity Jørgen Olsen g Huusmand 1817 Skouger Anne Knudsdatter Hans Kone g 1818 Numedal Carl Jørgensen Deres Søn ug 1851 Skouger Herman Jørgensen Deres Søn ug 1860 Skouger Maren Jørgensdatter Deres Datter ug 1855 Skouger Birgitte Jørgensdatter Deres Datter ug 1857 Skouger Sofie Jørgensdatter Deres Datter ug 1858 Skouger Annette Johansdatter Fosterbarn ug 1865 Skouger

By the census of 1891 there were no more children at home
https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/census/person/pf01052807003225

He died on the 16th. May 1894. The cause of death is reported to have been "old age weakness".

nr. 8

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20060807020600

Link to a newspaper describing his final weeks:

https://www.nb.no/items/9565ae2061a5e675465234c8a98b7d04?page=3&sea...

Nordisk Tidende, Friday 4 May 1894

"Mrs. Henry H. Lee went on a visit to Norway on Wednesday, accompanied by her brother Mr. Vold. The visit applies most to her old parents. who lives in the Drammen area. The father is currently worryingly ill, which is why the daughter is in a hurry to visit the old man, if death should soon knock on his door."