Ola Knutson Bindarplassen

1801 census for Stensrud, Nes:

https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/census/person/pf01058271002437

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

Ola Knutson from Bindarplassen b. 1752, probably died 1808, married 1783 to Åse Halvorsdotter from Plassen under Frøysok, b. 1763, probably died 1833.

Children:

• 1. Knut Olsson Bjørnebråten, b. 1788 (bapt. Svang) d. 1862, married 1816 to Ingebjørg Torsteinsdotter, nordre Eikre, Hemsedal.
• 2. Halvor Olsson, b. 1790 d. 1879.
• 3. Sigri Olsdotter, b. 1791, probably died as a child
• 4. Ingebjørg Olsdotter, b. 1793, d. 1875, married 1815 to Per Knutson Bråten (Møsabråten).
• 5. Sigri Olsdotter, b. 1796 d. 1885, married 1815 to Arne Tolleivson Tronsgardhaugen-øvre Hodnungset, remarried 1826 to Ola Olsson Vestaforslåtta.
• 6. Ola Olsson, b. 1798 d. 1868, married 1830 to widow Birgit Pålsdotter Jonsgarden Rotneim.
• 7. Ola Olsson, b. 1801, probably died as a child
• 8. Ola Olsson, b. 1803 d. 1803

Ola Knutson is named Frøysokeige in 1773. The same when he married. In 1786 he was a witness and was then called "Binder". But in 1788 his [farm] is named Dokken. They probably lived on Dokken under Hoftun before coming to Svang.

Ola Knutson was a "workaholic". Starting with nothing, he became rather well-off, owning both Bjørnebraaten and Svang. He was killed instantly one winter when hit by a log in in the river, while working with his lumber. The story goes that that night a fox was sitting on the doorstep of Svang, howling.

Sara, I am sure that there is more ancestors to find in the Gol book(s), but this was what I copied at the library.