Martha Larsdatter NORDBØE
- Baptized: 18 Mar 1810, Rennesøy, Rogaland, Norway 2
- Marriage: Johannes Pedersen KROGEN on 11 Mar 1834 in Hausken, Rennesøy, Rogaland, Norway 1
- Died: 17 Jun 1909, Chippewa County, Minnesota, USA at age 99 3
Other names for Martha were Marta Larsdatter EKRENE, Marta Larsdtr. (Hausken) EKRENE, Marta Larsdatter HAUSKEN and Martha JOHNSON.
Death Notes:
Montevideo, MN
Noted events in her life were:
• Notes. John married Stine Marie Johnson who, with her mother Martha (Marta) and brother Peter (Peder), came to America in 1862 from the parish of Hauske and settled in Minnesota. Stine's brother Lars came to America in 1853 and her brother Syvert in 1854. The Hauske parish is on the island of Rennesøy, about ten miles north of Stavanger. Their family farm name was Kroken, a tenant farm owned by the farm Hauske. Stine's father, Johannes Pederson Kroken, died in Norway in 1860. The family had been fishermen and farmers. Ed Tomte recalls hearing how Great Grandmother Martha would tell about sorting the fish on a bed of straw after each day's catch.
Martha, who was alert and active until the time of her death at almost 100 years, had a keen sense of humor and was always laughing and joking. She kept busy, even in her later years, knitting mittens and boots. The knit boots she wore around the house in place of shoes. She never lost interest in children. Those in our family even remember how she would feed Lester Larson (born May 1907) by first chewing the food well herself and then feeding him. This was an old Norwegian custom among the people who got their bread from coarse grains. In America, Martha often stayed with her daughter and son-in-law Stine and John Larson. She is listed with Stine and John in the 1870, 1875, 1880, and 1900 census.
Stine's brother Lars Johnson, with whom Martha, his mother, later made her home, moved his family to Montevideo, Minn. after having farmed on what is now known as the Maland farm near Highland Prairie for several years. Ed Tomte remembered the family. It is believed that his decendents live in the Lake Mills and Forest City, Iowa area as well as around Montevideo where Martha is buried.
[Bruce 2006]
• Immigration: from Norway, 1862, America. 4 Rennesøy Gards og Ættesoge, 1974, page 182 To USA in 1862 with brother Peder and mother Marta (Lived on the farm Hauske)
leaving Rennesøy...
5 May 1862
14. ? enke Marthe Krogen 52
15. Peder Johannes " 21 > Nordamerika
16. Stine Marie " 19
• Census: Preble, 1870, Fillmore County, Minnesota, USA.
87 87 Larson John 30 M Norway
" Martha 60 F Norway [mother-in-law
" Maria 26 F Norway
" Eunice 5 F MN [Jonas?]
" Betsy 2 F MN
" Mary 1 F MN
[page 7 of 17]
• Census: Preble, District 67, 1880, Fillmore County, Minnesota, USA. line 23
13 14 Larson John 45
--- Stene 37
--- Jonas 15
--- Mary 13
--- Oliver 9
--- Charles 5
--- Mina 2
--- Julia 1
Johnson Martha 70 mother-in-law
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• Census: Mandt, 1885, Chippewa County, Minnesota, USA. #16
L. H. Johnson 52 Norway
Anne " 42 Norway
John " 18 MN
Mathilde Johnson 14 MN
David " 11 MN
Caroline " 9 MN
Aldolf " 7 MN
Gustav " 4 MN
Marta " 75 MN [Norway]
[page 43 and 44 of 90]
• Census: Preble Township > District 0033, 1900, Fillmore County, Minnesota, USA. John Larson65
Stena Larson56
Oliver Larson28
Julia Larson22
Martha Johnson90 Mother in Law, wd, 4/3
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Martha married Johannes Pedersen KROGEN, son of Peder Pederson KROKEN and Steenvor Johanesdatter REJENASES, on 11 Mar 1834 in Hausken, Rennesøy, Rogaland, Norway.1 (Johannes Pedersen KROGEN was baptized on 16 Jan 1802 in Rennesøy, Rogaland, Norway 5 and died on 18 Nov 1860 in Hausken, Rennesøy, Rogaland, Norway 6.)
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