Sigbjørn II Sigbjørnsen Tesager

Gyland Bygdebok (1970) s.437

Sigbjørn who was oldest got the farm. He married Ingrid Torjusdatter Nuland in1779. This married couple joined each other in death in 1794. Pastor Emanuel Lund writes: “Farmer Sigbjørn ( Number 5) Tesaker and his wife, 38 years; They were lost in Lake Komlevoll while

they hauled hay in a flat-bottomed boat ( pram ). People talk of this happening yet. Sigbjørn and his wife and a hired girl had been on Grottelands Island to chop leaves; when they were on their way homeward with the load of leaves Sigbjørn sat at the oars, and the two women were

working with their knitting. The pram was leaky and heavily loaded as it was, it took in water. It is said that when the boat was full the wife tossed her knitting and said: “Syben, you have always said you could swim, now can you save us?”. And thus she threw her arms around her husband, quite probably this was the cause of the disaster, he was unable to use his arms because she constrained him and they both drowned. The servant girl got herself up on the bottom of the pram which had overturned, and was saved. This Sigbjørn had been a skillful smith. They left 4 children: Sigbjørn, Tønnes, Marthe and Karen Malene.

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