Peder Olsen Kotmo

  Research Notes:

1. Birth/bap, Norway Parish Registers, 1808

- father, Esten Olsen with residence as Tolgen; mother Dorthe Jørgensdtr, residence Eggen/Sandmælen


2. Tolgen by Ivar Sætre, page 67-68; farm Kotmoen

On the abandoned [auden - audn or audne] dwelling was the first user name Esten Olsen. After him came his son Ole Estensen born 1779. In 1809 income was for the widow Ingeborg Pedersdatter. He [Ole Estensen] was married twice; his first marriage to Dordi Jørgensdatter Sandmæl, and with her had a son, Peder. She died in 1808, and Ole Estensen married again to Kari Knudsdatter Nordvang, Vingelen, who died in 1856. There were no children from this marriage. That Ole Estensen had a younger brother of the same name, who was involved in the hostilities of the War of 1808-1814, but later came home; he [later] went by the name of Kotskmogeren and he died 1871. After Ole Estensen, his son Peder became the farmer [owner]. He [Peder] was married to Kari Ingebretsdatter from Dølgaard in 1838; they had 2 children, Ole and Engebret. Ole was unmarried and for a long time was a worker at the Tolgen smelter. Engebret was married to Barbro Svensdatter from Lilliehaug. Of their children, Peder is in America*, Sivert at home, dattern Kjerstine married with Ole O Erlien, and they later moved to Holtaalen, where she died, daughter Marit was married to Ole Eggen, and they travelled to America, and Petronille (married Ole Tollan in Kassan) is also dead [or she died at Kassen

* Peder Kotmo born in Tolgen; lived in Saum, MN; see http://www.nhohlag.org/1914_membership_list.htm

Peder married someone Kjersti Ingebretsdtr Dolgaarden on 6 Oct 1837 in Tolga, Hedmark, Norway ⁶⁹⁷.^,700 (Kjersti Ingebretsdtr Dolgaarden was born in 1818 in Tolga, Hedmark, Norway ⁶⁹⁷.)