Gjertrude Pedersdtr Bye

   Other names for Gjertrude were Gjartrude and Jane.

  Research Notes:

1. Names

- Bygebok from Os uses Gjartrude
- obits of parents/brothers use Mrs Jane Thompson
- Census - Gjertrude
- West Grace Cemetery, Peterson, Fillmore Co uses Gjertrude


2. 1900 US Census - search, 8 Feb 2009

- Ole Thompson & Gjertrude/Jane not indexed on ancestry.com for MN, WI, IA (did not show any place)
- -- also not indexed MN State

- not found on a scan of Rushford Twp & Rushford City, Fillmore

3. 1910, 1920, 1930 US Census

- Rushford Twp, Fillmore Co, MN
- 1910 - stock farm
- Ole emigrated 1864 and is listed as Naturalized; Gjertrude emigrated in 1870
- 1920 - Gjertrude is listed as a widow

4. 1940 US Census Rushford Twp, Fillmore Co, MN

- Gjertrude (Gertrude), Widow, age 71 born in Norway, class of worker as Homemaker; own home with value of $1000
- Palmer, son, age 32 born in MN, single, grade 6 education; worked 70 hrs wk of Mar 24; worked 52 wks in 1939; usual job as a Farm laborer, private pay

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Residence - 1910, 15 Apr 1910, Rushford Twp, Fillmore Co, Minnesota, United States. ⁷⁵⁴

2. Residence - 1920, 1 Jan 1920, Rushford Twp, Fillmore Co, Minnesota, United States. ⁷⁵⁶

3. Residence - 1930, 1 Apr 1930, Rushford Twp, Fillmore Co, Minnesota, United States. ⁷⁵⁷

4. Residence - 1940, 1 Apr 1940, Rushford Twp, Fillmore Co, Minnesota, United States. ⁷⁵⁸

Gjertrude married Ole Thompson about 1894.⁷⁵⁴ (Ole Thompson was born in 1858 in Norway,⁶⁵⁵ died in 1918 in Rushford Twp, Fillmore Co, Minnesota, United States ⁶⁵⁵ and was buried in West Grace Cemetery, Peterson, Fillmore Co, Minnesota, United States ⁶⁵⁵.)