Paul Halvorsen Norby

  Research Notes:

1. Birth - Norway Parish Records - for some reason, only one page for 1872, the next blank

- Washington Death, 1891-1907 - scanning mistakes, so second page of 1905 not there

Bapitism - Norway Parish Records - Ministerialbok, 1866 -
- the last page (under 1872 and 1873 for døpt is very very very faint and can not be read - scanning error???

2. Emigration - Norway Parish Records - Leaving Trysil

- 1886 - leaving parish - record says "to America" - recorded as 18 Oct 1886
- Paul is line 26; his sister is line 25; father is line 37
- Digitalarkivet -- Emigranter over Kristiania 1871-1930; Date of Departure 26 Oct 1886; Line 86451; Ship Hekla; Destination Blooming Min -- same ship as his sister, Kirsti

3. 1892 WA State Census - Paul is listed with parents

4. 1900 US census - Hoodsport, Mason Co

- head of household is Helvor Norby
- Paul is listed, miner; married 2 years; then Rosa, recorded as d-in-law to head of household, born in Oregon; then Vesta (recorded as a son), born Sept 1898 in Oregon

5. Ancestors ....
- Paul and Rosalie moved to southern OR where he worked as a miner.
- died at the early age of 33

6. Death - Jefferson Co, WA genealogy

- surname as Nordby, not Norby
- Paul Nordby - obit -- 21 April 1905 date of death; 25 April 1905, obit date

Ancestry.com database -- does not note location, but burial


7. Obit

23 Apr 1905, Jefferson County Genealogical Society Archives, Port Townsend, WA; Daily Leader
Laid to Rest
"All that was mortal of the late Paul Nordby was interred in the Masonic cemetery yesterday afternoon, the body having been sent here from Hoodsport where he died on Friday, for burial. Services over the remains was held from the Lutheran Church of this city after the arrival yesterday. Deceased was thirty-three years of age the cause of his demise being tuberculosis. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn his loss, besides a number of relatives in and about this city where he was well known."

24 April 1905, from Ancestors..... - copy of an obit, likely from the Mason County Journal [ NOT confirmed]
- died at the residence of his parents on April 21 from TB
- born in Norway, Mar 1, 1872; came to US with his parents in 1887 and to Hoodsport in [ ... date crossed off and in handwriting, May 20, 1889 ]
- in late years his home has been in Oregon
- he leaves, beside his parents, a wife and three children at Olney, OR [ Clatsop Co, OR; abt 20 kms south of Asotria; four sisters, Mrs P G Clements, Mrs C I Matson, Mrs A J Anderson and Mrs C H Olberg, all of Port Townsend, and three brothers, Peter and Henry of Port Townsend and "J Throward, who is in Minnesota, studying for the ministry".
- brothers/sisters (except J Thorward) were present when he died
- "Among his last words were these: 'Pray that Jesus will come quickly and take me'. When asked, "Are you sure he will do so?' he replied 'Yes, sure."
- funeral was last Saturday in Hoodsport - burial at Port Townsend




7. Judith Rosa Dunkin

- remarried to Thomas Burwell -- listed in 1920 US Census -- Los Angeles, CA --- Paul's children are listed here, but with surname of Burwell
- Ancestry.com --- CA death index -- Rose Dunkin Burwell (Dunkin) with Cook as mother's maiden name ---- death and mother correspondes with the "Clapp Family Tree" database

- according to the owner of the Clapp Family Tree under the Norby Dunkin Tree (niblet44) Rosalie and Thomas Burwell had two children, Stanley who died in 1918 and Lawrence who died in 1969 in San Bernandio CA

8. one family tree on Familysearch. (link, https://familysearch.org/tree/person/287C-M5R/details?cid=partner-3Z3L-Z4GK-J7ZS-YT3Z-Q4KY-YN66-ZX5K-176R )

- seems to have more backgroud on Paul Halovsen's wife and then on daughter Bernice married to Clapp ^3625,3737

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Emigration - 1886, 19 Oct 1886, Leaving Trysil, Norway. ^3738,3739

2. Emigration - 1886: Leaving Kristiania, Norway, 26 Oct 1886.

3. Residence - 1900, 1 Jun 1900, Hoodsport, Mason Co, Washington, United States. ³⁶³⁵

Paul married Judith Rosalie Dunkin, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, about 1898 in Oregon, United States.³⁷³⁴ (Judith Rosalie Dunkin was born on 7 Aug 1878 in Bronson, Bourbon Co, Kansas, United States ³⁷³⁴ and died in 1957 in Upland, San Bernardino Co, California, United States ^3734,3740.)