Dorothea Marie Kjeka

census in 1801: http://digitalarkivet.arkivverket.no/en-gb/ft/bosted_land/bf0105837...

from another researcher see http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/NORWAY/2015-03/1426239248 (she incorrectly thought Hans was the Fatland descendant when it is his wife Dortea)

This information comes from a passenger list on Ancestry. In 1875, Hans and Dorothea Fatland and a long string of children emigrated from Norway. I don't remember the port they left from, but they were in Liverpool on their way to America. There Hans died--he was not a young man. Dorothea and the children went on, though eventually she returned to Norway, dying there in 1909.

Ten Fatland children were b. between 1849 and 1870, so some were still small when they emigrated. Some ended up in ND. One of the younger ones was Ole H. Fatland, b. 1865 in Fjelberg,,Norway--note that again I don't know the county in Norway, but it's the same parish as where his parents were married long before. He married Bertha Harrison. While her name sounds English, she had originally been Birgitte Henriksen, b. 1879 in Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway, emigrated with her family in 1890. Bertha was sister to my maternal grandfather. I have no memory of ever meeting her, however.