Name:

Jens

Larsen

?

approx. 1850-1890

(first name)

(surname)

(farm name)

(birth/death dates)

Name in America:

(wife) Clara & Claudine

Larsen

(first name)

(m.i.)

(last name)

Spouse:

Inger Claudine

Larsdatter

1854-1939

(first name)

(surname)

(farm name at marriage)

(birth/death dates)

Children:

Lars

Halvor

Hanna

Anna

Jens

Inga

Kirsten

Hans Carl

Municipality (kommune) in Norway:

Kragero

Church Parish to which they belonged:

?

Emigrant Ship:

Thingvalla

Depart Date:

1891

Port:

New York

Destinations in America 

Early:

Final:

Mattoon, WI

Occupations/Professions

in Norway:

Housewife

in America:

Took in boarders

Additional Information:  Jens Larsen was a fisherman in Norwary who was lost at sea, with his eldest son, around 1890.  His wife, Inger Claudine, then emigrated to America where she joined her parents who had come nearly 20 years earlier. 

Contact:                     

Laurel Collins

Relationship to emigrant:

Great-granddaughter

Email:

lcollins@antigoschools.k12.wi.us

Date:

18Oct2004