Hellik Gunnulson WINDEG

   Other names for Hellik were Hellik Gunnulfsen KRAVIG and Hellek Gunnulson VINDEG.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration: from Norway, 1839, America. ³ Passenger list 1839 - bark Emilie
Captain Thomas C. Anchersen
Departure Drammen June 12
Arrival New York Aug. 9
Source Roll # 39, Arr. no. 561

84 B. Winas 28 f id. G.N. - Birgith Olsdatter Vindegg
85 H. Winas* 35 m id. G.N. - Hellek Gunnulsen Vindeg

• Reference: An Immigrant Shipload of 1840, 1839. An Immigrant Shipload of 1840
Anne O. Windag (44) came from Numedal. Her brother, Gunnel Olsen Vindeg, who came to America in 1839, is well known in Norwegian immigrant history as a writer of boastful, but influential America letters. {39} Another brother, Helleik, gained fame, or rather notoriety, along another line of endeavor. Together with two companions he decided to try a quick and easy way to riches. "During the winter of 1841 these three unmarried men, all from Numedal, spent their time partly at Koshkonong and partly in Whitewater, making Norwegian money. . . . They wore the money as soles in their boots in order to make the bills look old and worn." {40} In the spring of 1842 or 1843 they returned to Norway to cash in on their cunning but landed in prison for long terms instead. Anna Vindeg married the Vossing, Nils Larson Bolstad, in 1841; he was one of the pioneers in the famous Koshkonong settlement. They settled in the town of Deerfield, Dane County, Wisconsin, where they remained until Bolstad died in 1865. Shortly afterwards Anna Vindeg Bolstad sold the farm and moved to North Dakota, where she died in 1912. She had three daughters and three sons, one of whom joined the Fifteenth Wisconsin Regiment and died in battle, June 28, 1864. {41}

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• Immigration: from America, 1843, Norway. With the fake money and spent 11 years in jail.

• Migration: from Veggli, Rollag, Buskerud, Norway, 1862, Nore, Buskerud, Norway. 8 Jan 1862
1. Hellik Gunnulfsen Vindeg, 57, fra Vegli

[p233, 1862, Nore]

• Census: farm Slokudalen, 1865, Nore, Buskerud, Norway. District no. Page School distr. Local parish Parish Farm Title
20 1 15 Søndre Nore Hoved-Sogn Nore Slokudalen (plads) 1

Pers.no. Household Given name Last name Family pos. Occupation Marital status Age Sex Birth place Cattle Sheep Goat Barley Potatoes
120 18 1 Hellek Gunulfs. Huusfader Huusmand med Jord g 61 m Rollags Prgj. 4 5 4 5/8 3
121 19 Sønnev Olsd. hans Kone g 51 k Nore Prgj.

• Reference: The first chapter of Norwegian immigration, (1821-1840). p344-345
Helleik Vindeg, Lars and Nils Halling made counterfeit money and went to Norway. During the winter of 1841 these three unmarried men, all from Numedal, spent their time partly on Koshkonong and partly in Whitewater, making Norwegian money. The next year they went to Norway, where they were convicted and sent to prison. The supposition is, that this lot of counterfeit money was made by these men during their sojourn on Koshkonong. They wore the money as soles in their boots in order to make the bills look old and worn. Nils Halling was considered the least guilty of the three, and was accordingly sentenced to a shorter term in prison. After paying the penalty of his crime, he returned to America, and became an industrious farmer, in the town of Albion, where he died at an advanced age. Helleik Vindeg was a brother of Gunnul Vindeg. Gunnel Vindeg had a sister who married a Swede, by name John Smith, a man of doubtful character, who officiated both as minister and physician. Gunnul Vindeg had another sister, Anna, who was married to Nils Bolstad, and lived near Cambridge, in the neighborhood of Magne Bystölen, Kolbein Saue and Nils Gilderhus.

Hellik married Sønnev Olsdatter TEIGEN on 27 Feb 1862 in Nore, Buskerud, Norway.¹ (Sønnev Olsdatter TEIGEN was born about 1811 in Nore, Buskerud, Norway.)