Hvaal family - Svarstad - Maukon

A picture from 1938 – Hilda Josefine is 75 year. On this occasion she has 11 of her children with her.
From left (behind) is; H 17 Ole, H 16 Signe, H 15 Asta, H 9 Olefine, H 14 Rut, H 8 Thorvald, H 13
Hulda, H 12 Magna and H 11 Valborg. In front (from left) is H 4 Adolf, Hilda and H 5 Alf.
The children not present were those that had died; H 1 Nils, H 2 Ottar and H 10 Valborg.
Furthermore the three children emigrated to USA were also absent; H 3 Anna, H 6 Bernhard and
H 7 Anne Oline.
Nils Hjalmar – H 1
H 1 Nils Hjalmar Hvaal (11/4 1880 – 15/4 1918). The oldest child in the Hvaal
family was Nils Hjalmar and he is coded H 1. He was consequently the one with “odel”
(allodial possession) to the farm. He never had a chance to take the farm since he
got tuberculosis – which at that time was a sickness with no successful medicine.
Nils Hjalmar spent the last time of his life in “Granly tuberkulosehjem” in Sem. He
died in the spring of 1918 and is buried at Svarstad church. He had no children.
Hilda
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