Svend Olsen

   Other names for Svend were Svend Olsen Øversjodal and Sven Olsen Vestgård.

  Research Notes:

1. Birth conflict

- Norway Parish Registers, born 1797, baptized 8 Jun 1797 [ Marie Tollan's transcription ]
- Tolga Gards p. 596 records birth as 1799
- www.geni.com; managed by Anne Pauline Skjelkvåle, 12 Apr 2013; earlier information added by Rune Meli in 2009 ; http://www.geni.com/people/Anders-Vestgård ;; OR, sometimes, general google search, Ole Olsen Vestgård and link to geni.com ;;; records Svend's birth as 1797
- marriage record for Svend records age at marriage as 34, thus 1797
- 1801 Norway Census - age 4, thus born 1797

- Kronolist for 1797, page 114, lines 34 & 35 (close to bottom of page) - Svend og Ingeborg................. Vestgard, Ole Andersen og Kirsten Olsdtr

Conclusion: I have recorded Svend's birth as 1797 since most records record birth as 1797 (as indicated above). ^{218,2763,2764}

Svend married Kari Nilsdatter Søndmør on 8 Jul 1831 in Os, Togla, Hedmark, Norway.²⁷⁶⁰ (Kari Nilsdatter Søndmør was born in 1808 in Tolga, Hedmark, Norway ²⁷⁶⁵, baptized on 31 Jul 1808 in Os, Togla, Hedmark, Norway,²⁷⁶⁶ died on 10 Oct 1852 in Tolga, Hedmark, Norway ²⁷⁶⁷ and was buried on 24 Oct 1852 in Os, Togla, Hedmark, Norway ²⁷⁶⁷.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

1. Marriage - 1831, 8 Jul 1831, Os, Togla, Hedmark, Norway. ²⁷⁶⁰ marriage: 8 Jul 1831, Tolga Ministerialbok, page 208, line 10 (1st side)
- Svend Olsen Oversjodal, age 34
- Kari Nielsdatter Sóndmór Hoelóÿen, age 23
- sponsors: Ole Larsen Hoelóÿen and Ole Olsen Róstbakken [husband of her sister, Kirsti]