Torkild Jahnsen Imjelt

transcirbed birth record: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/255/pd00000011284556

google translated from the Farmbook for Westbye and Imjelt farms in Skoger Vestfold

"Torkel Jahnsen Westby was from the family that for 6 generations, 1690-1817, lived in Vestby. He was born there in 1810 and died in 1888. His mother Eli belonged to the family there, born in 1774, died in 1855. His father Jahn Jahnsen was from Kyterud under N. Holmen, born in 1774, died in 1817. As mentioned before, it is said that he (Jahn) in the gray clearing one morning in an oat field was shot by the neighbor who was lying there waiting for a bear, but accidentally shot his neighbor.

Torkel Westby was an enterprising man, and he ran a saw, mill and lime kiln. He was also in his heyday a sociable and popular man and one of the most prominent people in the village, something that was marked, among other things, by a. by the fact that he drove with dombells also on weekdays. He was, as can be seen from the ownership history of other mills, involved in considerable property speculation and went bankrupt during the difficult times in the early 1880s and was then a forest representative for Kiær until his death."