Berit Semundstr Bakken

  Research Notes:

Berit Semunsdatter ????

- Ancestry Public Member Tree, 'Severinsen Family owner catieburelle', last login in Jan 2013
----- Berit's birth as Bakken [farm] Aust-Agder Co, Norway [east of Stavanger] ???
- Ancestry Public Member Tree --- a number of trees all indicate last name as Bakken, born as above... BUT none give any sources for their information

- Norway Parish Registers, - Tolga Ministerialbok death record, 1851 records birth as 8 Oct 1797 (no birth date recorded in Os i Tolga Klokkerbok and there is no record on Marie Tollan's transcription ;; 10 Aug 2013 ]


Marie Tollan's transcription - births/baptisms

- there is -- Berit Simonsdtr bap 8 Oct 1797; parents Simon Larsen and Berit Neilsdtr; residence Tufsingsdal [ she died 1851 with name as Berit Semundstr with birth/bap as 8 Oct 1797 ; ---- marriage of Simon Larsen (Tufsingdal) and Berit Neilsdtr (Østgaard) on 6 Jun 1793 --- Berit Nielsdtr born 5 Jan 1772 with parents Niels Rasmusen from Breen and Kari Persdtr
[ geni.com, Rolf Inge Holden record marriage on 6 Jan 1793 and names as Semund Larsen Bakken and Berit Østgard; her birth as 5 Jan 1772 and parents Nils Rasmussen Østgard and Kari Trøen ]

[ Semund Larsen died, 2 Nov 1843 and buried at Os, age 80 <1763>, residence Bakken i Tufsingdal; Berit Nilsdtr died 16 Apr 1856 and buried at Os, birth 1772; residence Bakken i Tufsingdal ]


Conclusion: Berit birth as in 1797 in Os, Tolga, Hedmark and that at some point the name changed from Simonsdtr to Semundstr (it is possible that there was a transcription error in the baptism record)

Berit married Mikkel Larsen Midtdal, son of Lars Mikkelsen Midtdal and Benedikte Jonsdtr Femundshytta, on 18 Oct 1818 in Os, Tolga, Hedmark, Norway.¹⁵⁴¹ (Mikkel Larsen Midtdal was born on 20 Oct 1793 in Midtdalen Søndre, Tufsingdalen, Tolga, Hedmark, Norway ^577,1542, baptized on 24 Nov 1793 in Tolga, Hedmark, Norway ¹⁵⁴² and died on 14 Jul 1877 in Tolga, Hedmark, Norway ⁵⁷⁷.)