Jon Mikkelsen Langeland

  Research Notes:

Birth: calculated as 22 Dec 1750, if age 40 days .... baptism, "introducerte" on 31 Jan 1751 ... see below... 1 Apr 2025

There seems to be only one death record that I can find for Jon, but there is little identifying information
... possibly 18 of May 1806 ... 6th Sunday after Easter
.. the name is noted as : John Langeland, married, worker ... but age at death is 40 ?? .. that would be birth about 1766 which is off.
Røros Parish register no. 681A06 /1806 - 1816, Burials, page 350-351, no 25, 2nd side
link, https://media.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/16222/85


Bygebok for Engerdal, vol 2, page 196 [Jonasg and page 248-249. Østra-Elgåen

Østre Elgåen, formerly lot no. 194, was a place in the easternmost part of Moenjordet. It was also called Litl-Jo-hagen. page 248

Jon Mikkelsen Langeland lived here in 1801, and was married to Marit Jonsdatter. Like the other users at Elgå, "he uses Fæmund Hytte", it is said in 1801. But he has fields and hay fields by Valsjøen in (Gammel)-Valdalen. It is said that he froze to death once when he was going to pull hay from there, but this probably applies to his brother Hans Mikkelsen, about whom the church book says: "Froes to death on the mountain."

In 1801, Jon and Marit had the following children:
1. Kari, 21 years old, died in 1801,
2. Mikkel, 18 years old and Dordi, 8 years old.

Jon Mikkelsen's mother, Karen Jonsdatter, was first married to Mikkel Langeland in Ala, and as a widow she married Jon Pedersen at Jonasgård by Femund cabin, and mother of the Mikkel Jonsen who in 1795 became a permanent resident at the Jonasvollen or Snauhaugen farm, which he bought from his father at the time.

The will was made after Jon Mikkelsen in 1806, so he probably died that year or just before. The assets are 83 dalers, but the debt is 220 dalers, so the estate is probably insolvent. The son Mikkel is not mentioned in the will, only the daughter Dordi, although Mikkel lives until 1850, and is then called Mikkel Jonsen Valdal, and that is correct as we will see, but the age then, 64 years, is probably not quite correct, he was baptized in 1783.

The sister Dordi was married at Idre in 1824 to Per Persen Lillebo. They now built the farm in Gammel-Valdalen and settled there permanently. - Per Persen was the son of Per Halvorsen, S. Lillebo, who was from Lillestu in Heggeriset and was the first user of S. Lillebo. Their later family is discussed under Gammel-Valdalen.

Users and family on Litl-Jo-hagen:

I. Jon Mikkelsen, b. 1750, d. 1806, married Marit Jonsdatter, b. 1756, d. 1823, 67 years.
Children:
1. Karen (Kari), b. 1780, d. 1801, nearly 21 years.
2. Mikkel, dept 4/12 1783, d. 1850, is then 64 years old, it is said, but was probably 67 years old. His name was Mikkel Jonsen Valdalen at the time, so he probably lived with his sister and brother-in-law at Gammel-Valdalen.
3. Dordi, baptized 9/2 1793, married Per Persen Lillebo, b. 1773. They built the Gammel-Valdalen estate from Røros Verk in 1825 and became permanent residents there. As mentioned, Gammel-Valdalen had belonged to her father [mainly on page 250-251.

Gr.nr. 54/1, Gammel-Valdalen, previously serial no. 374, is a continuation of Østre Elgåen, which is mentioned just above. They moved to the Valdalen estate when Jo(n) Mikkelsen's daughter Dordi married Per Persen Lillebo, and at the same time took up residence there in 1825. - Per Persen Lillebo's father, who built S. Lillebo, was from Lillestu in Heggeriset. But his father was from Hammarsgarden and his mother from Nes in Øverbygda, Trysil. - Lillebo, like Heggeriset, belonged to Trysil until 1911.

page 249

Per Persen and Dordi had 2 children, Marit, born in 1825 and Per, born in 1828. -
Per d. y. married Anne Kirstina (Stina) Drossbakken, Idre. She lived until 1912, and was a much sought-after "home midwife" on both the Norwegian and Swedish sides of the border. -

Per's sister Marit lived with Erik Floåsen in Gruveldalen, and had 3 children with him. They may have intended to marry, but she died at the age of only 31 in 1856.
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Per d. y. had not paid the building fee to the Røros works like his father, and the works then, by the strict forest bailiff Jens Lassesen, evicted him one winter day in March 1874. He brought 2 men from Elgå with him, and their household goods were carried out to the farm. In the end, only the cradle with the infant remained on the living room floor. "Carry out the cradle," commanded the forest ranger. "No, you can carry this one out yourself, if it needs to be out," said the men. The forest ranger did so, and sealed the door. Later in the winter the family lived in the barn shed.

But in the spring the 3rd Per Persen Valdal built a house just over the border on the Swedish side, in the middle of Valdalen. The new home was called Valdalsbygget, and the user they called the site Bygga-Per". He was married in 1885 to Anette Gundersdatter Grubben, Drevsjø, sister of, among others, Johan Gundersen Grubben at Risbakken, and Johanna Nygård at Drevsjø.
Their son, Petter Persen, married Pernille, daughter of Per Saglien in Gruveldalen (Barons-Per from Nymoen in Engerdal), and they have used Valdalsbygget as a seat for a few years now. (See Saglien in the play: Our emigrants to Sweden.)

Several of Bygga-Per's siblings came to the Elgå region in Engerdal. Anne married Henning Mortensen at Røsta near Elgå, they probably lived in Gruveldalen for a time, but became farmers at Røsta. Jo married the widow Berit Mortensdatter at S. Elgådal. He was so good at singing songs, it is said, including "Om Stor-Kersta's sad fate" of 40 verses. His brother Mikkel was in America for 12 years, but came home and helped his mother, Gamle-Stina, at the Valdalsbygget. .....


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Karen Jonsdatter - probate

1: John Mikkelsen died and has left behind the following children: a: Mikkel Johnsen 24 years old, b: Dordi Jonsdatter 13 years old,
2: Margrete Mikkelsdatter, married to Casper Caspersen Brekken,
3: Ingeborg Mikkelsdatter, widow of Ingebrigt Johnsen Tufsingdal,
4: Maren Mikkelsdatter died ... married to Guttorm Larsen, Trondheim

























Note: Introduserte ... this was a practice known as "churching of a woman", after giving birth:
Some 40 days or so after a baby's birth the mother's were 'introduced' back into the congregation; they couldn't go to church during that period of time after the baby was born. From the Latin, 'Benedictio mulieris post partum ante ostium ecclesiae'
.. the above is from: OJ's Homepage website, along with his Norwegian \endash American word liste
https://otjoerge.wordpress.com/norwegian-american-dictionary/f-j/

see, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churching_of_women

temparily saved in "Genealogy Resources .... main page" ¹⁰³⁴⁰

Jon married Marit Jonsdatter Moen, daughter of Jon Ingebretsen Moen and Dordi Larsdtr Gammelstuen Østgård. (Marit Jonsdatter Moen was born in 1757 in Tolga, Hedmark, Norway, baptized on 12 Jun 1757 in Os, Togla, Hedmark, Norway ¹⁰²¹⁸ and died in 1823 in Røros, Sør Trondelag, Norway.)