Lars Andersen Sund

GEDCOM Note

From Ancestors and Descendants of Frantz Larsen Engelstad (1850-1936) and Johanne Andersdatter Engelstad (1851-1932) of Hedemarken County, Norway and Dane County, Wisconsin by Judith Engelstad Gambrel, 2004:

Born 7 April 1816, died 1887 was the lessee tenant farmer of the place called Engelstad in 1865 and 1875. He was also called a blacksmith in 1865 and a carpenter in 1875. During the time that he built Engelstad he lived at Grindvolla. Before that he owned Sondre Raknerud from 1845-50. Raknerud is located on the island of Helgoya in Hedemarken County, Norway. It was built in stages between 1743 and 1784.

He was married with Agnette Pedersdatter Heggen born (27 September) 1807 and died 1865. They had 6 children *: Peder also known as Peter, born 8 October 1843 at Raknerud farm; Anders, born 4 July 1845 at Raknerud farm (married Alis Nilsdatter Sund on 30 October 1871) and died 7 January 1917; Anne, born 5 August 1847 at Raknerud farm; Frantz, born 1 May, 1850 at Raknerud farm; Andrea, born 13 June, 1851 at the Sund farm; Kristiana or Christiane, born 10 June, 1852 at the Sund farm.

• Please refer to the chapter in this book on Frantz´s siblings.

Andrea (Agnethe), Anne and Peter never married and remained in Norway. Anders and Christine came to the United States. Anders resided in Deerfield, Wisconsin with his family. Christine never married and was a servant for a doctor in Chicago, Illinois. There were many cousins in Wisconsin in the Deerfield area that were descended from brothers and sisters of Lars Andersen Sund. They were the Halvorsens, Bredesens, Evensens (Fritz Engelstad, son of Ludvig, knew Conrad Evensen).

On the 1865 census for Nes, Hedemarken County, Norway, Lars Andersen is listed as age 50 and a widower living on the Engelstad farm (see the census section of this chapter) with his son Anders and his daughter Anne.

On the 1875 census for the Engelstad farm at Nes, Hedemarken County, Norway, Lars Andersen is shown as being born in 1816 and living with his son, Anders Larsen (born in 1845) and Anders´ wife, Alis Nilsdatter (born in 1841) along with Adolf Hansen (born in 1867). Adolf was Alis´s son by a prior marriage. When they came to America he went by Adolf Engelstad. (For a copy, see the census section of this chapter.)

Engelstad was a place that originally was leased by the owner of Lille-Stav. (Stavstua) in 1854. It laid in the lower part of the so-called Slattsveen and was comprised of two large mals and 128 enstenglers fields. Here received the lessees permission to set up a house for himself and family. The production in 1865 was three and one half tons of barley and one ton of potatoes; and in 1875 it was 5/16 ton of barley and one ton of potatoes. The place then was registered under Sund Ovre but in 1891 and 1900 was the place came under Sund Nedre. It was used as a smokehouse on toftes gave and stood over for where Kvelve stands today. (Lars Andersen´s other son was Anders, brother to Frantz). Anders and Alis traveled to the US with their two then living children in 1889. They called themselves Engelstad over there.