Bjørn Olavsen Family
Oppland, Norway

 

Bjørn Olavsen  Nedre Kråbøl
b.  1485/1490 Kråbøl Nedre, Vestre Gausdal, Oppland, Norway
d. after 1552 Kråbøl Nedre, Vestre Gausdal, Oppland, Norway(age 67)

 m. Sigrid unknown   Norway
b. abt 1495 Norway
d. Norway
her father: unknown
her mother:unknown


his father: Olav Bjørnsen 1460 Kråbøl, Vestre Gausdal, Oppland, Norway
his mother:   n. n.  Amundsdatter

Children
Jon Bjørnsen Kråbøl
b. 1525 Kråbøl, Vestre
 Gausdal, Oppland, Norway
d. 1555 
m. unknown
(two sons)
Siri/Sigrid
Bjørnsdatter Nedre Kråbøl
b. abt 1527 Kråbøl Nedre, Gausdal, Oppland, Norway
d.     
m. Amund Ottrsen (Olstad) (b.1518  d. 1552 age 34)              
Mads Bjørnsen
Nedre Kråbøl
b. 1530 Nedre Kråbøl, Vestre Gausdal, Oppland, Norway d. abt 1618 Nordre Steine, Østre Gausdal, Oppland, Nor
m. unknown

 Most of these records are maintained in local archives and were microfilmed by the LDS. We still have an incomplete history of this family and I look forward to information that can complete the lists of the children.

Krabol storage buildings
Krabol farm, storage buildings
photo Elroy Christenson 2016


The plague visited Europe and Scandinavia on numerous occasions from about 1347 for the next 150 years. 

Plague dance of death 
Dance of Death "Dans Macbre" from Hartman Schedel's Chronicle of the World (1493),
believed to have been made by Michael Wolgemut.  Public Domain

 

Source:
        Gausdalssleckt (web site for the Gausdal parish, Oppland, Nor. in Norwegian)  http://gausdalsslekt.net
        Norway National Archives.
        records of LDS, International Genealogical Records, 1999  -   familysearch.org
 

Brief History of Oppland || Elroy's Family Index || Ancestor Chart #1498


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