Harry Asbjorn Olsen

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Harry Asbjørn Olsen (Hermo)

Also Known As: "Harry Asbjorn Hartvigsen"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Bergen, Norway
Death: February 12, 1988 (60)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Acute leukemia)
Place of Burial: Lidcombe, NSW, Australia
Immediate Family:

Biological son of Anton Marentius Hermo and Hartvikke Johanna Kristine Olsen
Adopted son of Leslie Christian Therbold Olsen
Husband of Dorothy Jean Olsen
Father of Rhoda Joy Mak; Leslie William Olsen; Private and Private User
Half brother of Ruth Hansine Hermo Eliassen Olsen; Agnes Marie Endresen; Kristian Hermo and Margareth Johanna Larsen

Occupation: Presbyterian Minister
Managed by: Susan Mary Rayner (Green) ( Ryan...
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Immediate Family

About Harry Asbjorn Olsen

In 1927 Harry's mother Hartvikke Hartvigsen was working as a maid at the Grand Hotel Hammerfest. She became pregnant to the wealthy owner of the hotel and later Norwegian politician Anton Marentius Hermo https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Marentius_Hermo.

Hartvikke was sent to Bergen to give birth, where she stayed at Wesselsgate 1 with her brother Ingolf Adrian Bertin Hartvigsen and his wife and child.
Birth record (line 2): https://media.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/278/1666/246
Baptism record (line 7): https://media.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/44055/120924/94

After Harry was born he was left in an orphanage (possibly Jacob R. Olsens orphanage) and Hartvikke returned to Hammerfest.

In 1932 his mother married Leslie Olsen who had come to Hammerfest from Australia in 1930 after his entire family was killed in the Black Sunday bushfires in Neerim, Victoria in 1926. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/224064803/24478270

Leslie arranged for the 4-year old Harry to move to Hammerfest to live with them.

In 1934 the three of them emigrated to Australia.

In 1949 Harry officially changed his surname from Hartvigsen to that of his stepfather, Olsen.

Harry died in Sydney, Australia at 3.25am on 12 Feb 1988. It was still 11 Feb in Norway, meaning he died on his 60th birthday.

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Harry Asbjorn Olsen's Timeline

1928
February 11, 1928
Bergen, Norway
1951
March 14, 1951
Mascot, NSW, Australia
1953
May 16, 1953
Balranald, NSW, Australia
1988
February 12, 1988
Age 60
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
February 16, 1988
Age 60
Rookwood cemetery, Lidcombe, NSW, Australia