Halvor Olsson Svang

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/51254929/person/13220831626

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NORWAY/2002-07/102777...

Halvor Olsson Svang b. 1790 d. 1879, married 1817 to Birgit Ivarsdotter

Jordheim, Hem. (Hemsedal, I believe) b. 1792 d. 1817. (In childbed, I

believe as it's a year too early to be the "Spannish flu") No children.

Halvor remarried 1819 to Liv Olsdotter Løstegard, b. 1789, d. 1868.

Children:

1. Ola Halvorson b. 1819 d. 1852, married 1852 to Anne Olsdotter Skaga b.

1822 d. before 1871. They had a daughter, Liv Olsdotter, b. 1852, died in

America, married 1879.

Anne Olsdotter remarried, and they emigrated to America in 1866 with husband

and 4 children, but they would not be your blood relatives, tho.

2. Ola Halvorson, b. 1822, d. 1907

3. Ola Halvorson, b. 1824, d. 1824

4. Ola Halvorson, b. 1825, probably died as a child. (Yup, this is Gol and

they can have 2, 3 or perhaps even more living children with the same name.)

5. Birgit Halvorsdotter, b. 1828, d. 1858, married 1846 to Torstein Knutson

Rakel-Ro.

6. Knut Halvorson, b. 1830, d. 1923, married 1863 to Ingebjørg Knutsdotter

Bjørnebråten, b. 1836, d. 1935. No children.

7. Åse Halvorsdotter, b. 1833 d. 1895, married 1852 to Mekkel Olsson Grov.

They emigrated to America in 1885, lived near Walcott, Richland Co., MN.

8. Birgit Halvorsdotter, b. 1836, d. 1921, to America 1867, married 1871 to

Ola Olsson Lagmannsgaard (1842-1915),

he to America 1866, farmed in Stony Run twp., Yellow Medicine Co., MN.

Mentioned there in 1880 (census) , used Lagmandsgaard as a surname. 4

children.