Hvaal family - Svarstad - Maukon

The Larvik branch:
The great grandfather of Hilda, – Steen Nielsen (1774 – 1819) was a shoemaker. He married Karen
Margrethe Olsdatter (1779 – 1819). They got the daughter Nelia (born in 1809). She married Niels
Gulliksen – the son of Gullik Nielsen Eje (or Eide which may indicate Farriseide) and Johanne Frederiche
Finsdatter.
Niels Gulliksen and Nelia Steensdatter got two girls; (1) Johanne Nilsdatter (Eide)(b.1829) and (2)
Anne Marie Nielsdatter (Eide) (born 1839).
It happened that Niels Hansen from Hedrum married both Johanne and Anna Marie. First he married
the oldest one, Johanne. However, she died from tuberculosis 28/1 1860 – only 31 years old. We
have no information about children in this marriage. A year after Johannes death Niels married Anne
Marie Nielsdatter (21/3 1861). He was then 36 years and Anne Marie 21.
Niels Hansen and Anne Marie Nielsdatter had the following children:
1. Hagbarth Nielsen (18/7 1961 – 1862). Died only one year old.
2. Hilda Josefine Nielsdatter (10/3 1863 – 1950). She married Ole Johannesen Hvaal and
is central in this investigation.
3. Constance Henriette Nielsdatter (3/9 1864 – 30/10 1919). She emigrated to USA and was married
three times. (1) Jacob Nelson, (2) Wickstrøm and (3) Frank Enstrøm.
4. Oscar Sigvardt Nielsen (22/9 1866 – 9/12 1868). Died only two years old.
5. Valjertha Othilie Nielsdatter (16/5 1868 – 191). She was confirmed in Larvik 1. November 1882
and emigrated to USA in 1886, 18 years old. She married John Standall and died in Washington.
6. Adolf Steen (Nielsen) Nelson. (16/4 1870 – 1929). He married Ida Lindberg and died in Montana.
7. Nils Oscar Marinius (Nielsen) Nelson (22/1 1873 – 1935). He married Mayme West and he died
in Montana.
8. Fritjof Sigvard Nielsen (6/5 1875 – 10/5 1875). Fritjof died only 4 days old.
9. Thorvald Reinhard Fritjof (Nielsen) Nelson (6/6 1876 – 1963). Thorvald had a particular life which
included 4 wives and all together 13 children. He must have emigrated as a boy to USA. He came
to Montana and worked in a mine around Georgetown Lake.
First wife. He went back to Norway and become a seaman. In 1893, when he was 17 years old, the
ship crashed off the coast of South Africa near Port Elisabeth. Thorvald was the only survivor and
was found by a missionary – and his sister Dorothy Judith Paton nursed him back to health. Then
it happened that they fell in love – they married and got three children. After some years Thorvald
wanted to leave Africa whereas Dorothy did not want to leave and they divorced. We have no more
information about that part of the family. In Africa he used the name Thomas Nelson.
Second wife. After this Thorvald met and married Albertine Marie Pedersen. They got 4 children;
Niles Norman (1901), Thomas Reinhart (1903), Irine Adelaide (1905) and Edgar Clifford (1907).
Thorvald and Albertine divorced in 1909. Part of this family is the Nelson family in Whitefish, Montana.
We have some more information about the first child Niles Norman.
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