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Nils Andersen Røsaasen - Birth and death dates?

Started by Michael Jospeh Walsh on Tuesday, August 20, 2019
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Do we have any confirmation on the birth and death dates for Nils? I got to see a copy of the farm book with Røsåsen in it last week and it says 1804 and 1854 respectively for him.

My research on Ancestry indicates DOB: 5/7/1804 and DOD: 8/10/1853. His name is sometimes spelled “Niels.” I’m not sure why the Rosaasen surname reference but I have that as well.

OK, so for right now then, I'll change the DOB to May, 7, 1804 and leave the DOD the same as it is. Farm book shows the first name as Nils, so I'll leave that as is too.

Farm name generally accompanies given names, no?

That is often a construction done by genealogists and bygdebok authors to keep track of a family, - you can see for yourself that Røsaasen is not a part of the name in the church records - later generations (in this case the son Nils as an example) started to use the farm name as a family name, all over Norway as as a part of the naming law of 1923 which stopped the use of patronymic names and start using a family name, - a change that started around 50 years earlier

This is so helpful. Thank you!

Michael Jospeh Walsh, - I expect that you add add the children and the second wife to this tree, - you have all the details above.

Beklager, nei. I only have interest in my wife's direct lineage.

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