Hvaal family - Svarstad - Maukon

Third wife. Thorvald went back to Norway in 1909 and visited his sister Hilda on the farm Hvaal.
Here he met his niece Anne Oline and he married the third time (in September 1909). In the Norwegian
church books it says that it was the first marriage for both. Thorvald and Anne Oline got 4
children; Rhinehart (1910), Anne Marie (1912), Lloyd (1914) and Violet (1918). They and their descendents
will be mentioned later. They come into the coding system via Anne Oline H 7.
Fourth wife. Thorvald left Anne Oline and the 4 children in Anaconda, Montana. He ended up by
marrying Bergliot Pederson in 1918. They got twins Reinhart and Sterling (1924) and lived in New
York. Reinhart married Elisabeth and Sterling married Jean.
In 1919 he changed his name to Reinhart Frithjof Eide. The twins used Eide as the family name.
To the right is a picture of Thorvald with his wife no. 4
(Bergliot) and the twins. In the picture from left is; Reinhart,
his wife Elisabeth, Thorvald, Bergliot, Sterlings
wife Jean and finally Sterling.
(photo from 1954)
Anne Marie Nilsdatter – the mother of all the Larvik children became a widow when Niels died in
1876 – only 4 months after Thorvald was born. She was at the time 37 years old and had 6 children
– ranging from 4 months to 13 years old.
We do not know the full story, but Anne Marie married again February 26. 1878 with Ole Amundsen.
He was only 23 years old and “vognmann” in Larvik – the same profession as Niels. It is reasonable
to assume that Ole worked for Niels. Anne Marie was pregnant at the time – and it happened that
she died in childbed May 22. 1878 only 39 years old.
In May 1878 Hilda Josefine and her 2 sisters and 3 brothers had no parents (only a new stepfather).
As you can see from above, all these children, except Hilda, emigrated to USA. Hilda married later
the same year (December 27. 1878) Ole Johannesen Hvaal.
To the right is an old picture exhibiting the house
where Niels and Anne Marie lived outside Larvik
at Farriseide.
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