{"id":1232,"date":"2016-12-27T10:21:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T17:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2016-12-27T10:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T17:21:38","slug":"52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-49-50-johan-larsen-and-sara-mollersdatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=1232","title":{"rendered":"52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks #49 & 50\u2014Johan Larsen and Sara M\u00f6llersdatter"},"content":{"rendered":"

My third great-grandfather Johan Larsen was born March 22, 1824 on the island of Alstahaug in Nordland, Norway, just south of the Arctic Circle. His parents Lars Hemingsen and Jonelle Jonsdatter had him baptized in the Her\u00f8y i Alstahaug parish some time later.\n<\/p>\n

When he was twenty-one years old, Johan married Sara Andrine M\u00f6llersdatter in the same parish on the nearby island of Slap\u00f8en on July 19, 1845. Sara was the daughter of M\u00f6ller Zacariasen. Much older than Johan, Sara had been born about 1814 on the Berfjorden farm in the Alstahaug Municipality.\n<\/p>\n

The couple set up housekeeping at Slap\u00f8en and began their family:\n<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Johana Maria, born at Slap\u00f8en on September 25, 1845,\n<\/li>\n
  2. Bergitta Susanna, born at Slap\u00f8en on September 8, 1848,\n<\/li>\n
  3. Karen Marie, born at Titternes farm in D\u00f8nnes on April 7, 1851 (my great-great grandmother),\n<\/li>\n
  4. Ludvig Edvart, born at N\u00e6sna in D\u00f8nnes on May 17, 1855,\n<\/li>\n
  5. Anne Margrete Kristine, born at Skeids\u00f8en farm in D\u00f8nnes on March 12 1859,\n<\/li>\n
  6. Mortine Lovise, born at Skeids\u00f8en farm in D\u00f8nnes on June 19, 1863.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As he raised his family, Johan became a small landholder at Skeids\u00f8en, and he worked sometimes as a fisherman. Perhaps during the fishing season that ran from January to May each year, he traveled with the other men from his area to the rich Lofoten fishing grounds north of D\u00f8nnes to earn some extra cash.\n<\/p>\n

    On March 6, 1876, shortly before his 52nd<\/sup> birthday, Johan died in a fishing accident. His death is recorded not in his home parish in D\u00f8nnes, but further north in Lofoten. He must have gone there to fish that season. Many of the deaths recorded on the same page of the V\u00e5gan parish register in Lofoten note a death at sea, so perhaps that is how Johan died, too. It seems the boats lost many men that fishing season.\n<\/p>\n

    Johan was buried later that month on March 25, 1876 in the V\u00e5gan parish of Lofoten.\n<\/p>\n

    Sara remained at D\u00f8nnes to live out the remainder of her life. She passed away on August 1, 1880 when she was about 66 years old. She was buried in the Her\u00f8y I Her\u00f8y parish.\n<\/p>\n

    \"\"\n\t<\/p>\n

    \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My third great-grandfather Johan Larsen was born March 22, 1824 on the island of Alstahaug in Nordland, Norway, just south of the Arctic Circle. His parents Lars Hemingsen and Jonelle Jonsdatter had him baptized in the Her\u00f8y i Alstahaug parish some time later. When he was twenty-one years old, Johan married Sara Andrine M\u00f6llersdatter in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-52-ancestors","category-norway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}