Ansten Knudsen NATTESTAD
- Born: 28 Aug 1813, Veggli, Rollag, Buskerud, Norway 1
- Baptized: 5 Sep 1813, Veggli, Rollag, Buskerud, Norway 1
- Marriage: Kari Helgesdtr HVAMMEN in 1840 in WI
- Died: 8 Apr 1889, WI at age 75
Other names for Ansten were A.K. NATESTA, Ansten NATESTA and Ansteen Knudsen NATTESTAD.
Noted events in his life were:
• Immigration: from Norway, 1837, America. 2 leaving Rollag
| 1837 | | |
9 | Marti 7 | Ole Knudsen | 29 |
10 | d d | Andsten Knudsen | 24 | Amerika
Natestad
• Immigration: second trip back from Norway, 1839, America. Ship: Emilie
Departure: Drammen June 12
Arrival: New York, 9 Aug 1839
Source: Roll #39, Arr. no. 561
Ref. Name Age Sex Remarks Addition
1 A. K. Nattestad 25 m farmer [id. G.N. - Ansten Knudsen Nattestad]
2 K Nattestad* 20 f
3 K. Wamen 18 f [id. G.N. - Kari Høljesdatter Vammen]
• Census: Clinton, 1860, Rock County, WI. line 1
268 263 Anslon Knudson 46 Norway [Ansten]
Ann " 19 WI
Emily " 15 WI
Knud " 10 WI
Karrine " 8 WI
Nere Hulgerson 26 Norway [brother-in-law]
[page 35 of 39]
• Census: Clinton, District 180, 1880, Rock County, WI. line 18
363 383 Natestn Ansten 66 Norway
--- Karena 28 daughter WI
Hugelson Nere 42 boarder Norway [brother-in-law]
[page 39 of 43]
• Cemetery: East Jefferson Prairie Cemetery, 1889, Rock County, WI. Birth: Aug. 26, 1813
Death: Apr. 8, 1889
• Notes: funeral marker, 1889. In Loving Rememberance of
A. K. Natesta
Died April 8, 1889, aged 75 years, 7 mos., 13 days.
A precious one from us has gone,
A voice we loved is stilled ;
A place is vacant in our home
Which never can be filled.
God, in His wisdom, has recalled
The boon His love had given,
And through the body slumbers here,
The soul is safe in Heaven.
• Reference: Anderson's Norwegian Immigration, 1895. p249-255
• Reference: Ole Knudsen Nattestad on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Knudsen_Nattestad
Jefferson Prairie Settlement (Wisconsin)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Prairie_Settlement_(Wisconsin)
Jefferson Prairie Settlement was a pioneer colony of Norwegian-Americans located near the village of Clinton, in Rock County, Wisconsin. This site and the nearby Rock Prairie settlement outside Orfordville, Wisconsin served as a center for both Norwegian immigration and developments within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.[1]
Ole Knudsen Nattestad and Ansten Nattestad, two brothers from the valley of Numedal in southeastern Norway, emigrated in 1837. [...]
Veggli
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=4152951
• Reference: Jefferson Prairie Settlement: Rock County, WI. http://www.comportone.com/cpo/cemeteries/wisconsin/rockcounty/south_bergen.htm
• Reference: Ole Rynning's Account of America. Rynning, Ole; Blegen, Theodore C., editor
p100
It is a good thing if the immigrants can have a dependable guide and interpreter on the trip from New York to the interior. For those who wish to leave next spring, there is a good opportunity to go with Ansten Knudsen Nattestad from Rolloug parish in Nummedal, who is now on a trip back to Norway.
[http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/file.php?file=rynning.html]
• Reference: A Chronicle of Old Muskego.
• Reference: Knud Knudsen and His America Book. [...]
Knudsen was born September 29, 1810, presumably in Numedal, and emigrated to America with the group conducted by Ansten Nattestad. When the party reached Chicago, some remained there and others continued with Nattestad to Jefferson Prairie, Rock County, Wisconsin, about ninety miles northwest of Chicago, where Ansten's brother Ole had settled two years earlier.
[...]
[http://www.naha.stolaf.edu/pubs/nas/volume23/vol23_5.html]
• Reference: Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of its Cities, Villages..., 1908. p. 417
Two honored and respected pioneers of Rock county the brothers Ole and Ansten Natesta, (1) are entitled to a conspicuous page in the annals of Scandinavian immigration. Not only are they the founders of the first Scandinavian settlement in Wisconsin, located in Rock county in 1838, but the return of Ansten Natesta to his native parish in that year and the distribution of needed information about America by him through publication of his brother Ole's "Journal," printed in Drammen 1838, led other colonies here.
[...]
• Reference: Description of a Journey to North America by Ole Nattestad, 1838, IL. 3
Ansten married Kari Helgesdtr HVAMMEN, daughter of Helge Olsen HVAMMEN and Anne Herbrandsdtr KONGSJORDEN, in 1840 in WI. (Kari Helgesdtr HVAMMEN was born on 7 Nov 1820 in Rollag, Buskerud, Norway 4, baptized on 19 Nov 1820 in Veggli, Rollag, Buskerud, Norway 4 and died on 16 Aug 1856 in WI.)
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