Nels PETERSON

   Other names for Nels were Miles PETERSON, Niels Evensen SKAVELDEN and Nils Evensen SKAVELDEN.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration: leaving Norway, 1853, America. ¹ 41 Peder Evensen, Skavelden, 10/10/22, 12 Apr, Amerika
42 ? Maria Evensd, ", 30
43 barn Guri, ", 4
44 .... Even, ", 21/6 51
45 Even Pedersen, ", 60aar, 15 Apr
46 barn Anders, ", 26/3 29
47 Nils, ", 16/4 37
48 Marit, 24/7 43

• Census: Arena (near Dodgeville), 1860, Iowa County, WI. line 26

1173 1176 Miles Peterson 23 Norway [b. 1837]
Maria " 19 Norway [b. 1841]
Julia " 2 WI [b. 1858]
Betsey " 1 WI [b. 1859]

1174 1174 Evan Peterson 68 Norway [b. 1792 father]
Betsey " 47 Norway [b. 1813]
Caroline " 11 Norway [b. 1849]

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• Census: Arena, 1870, Iowa County, WI. line 35

102 102 Peterson Nels 33 Norway
--- Betsy M 28 Norway
--- Julia 12 WI
--- Betsy 10 WI
--- Elias 8 WI
--- Rundt 5 WI
--- Andrew 3 WI
--- Matilda 1 WI
Olson Allen 26 Norway

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Nels married Berta Maria Knudsdatter REISHUS, daughter of Knud Knudsen REISHUS and Berthe Torgersdatter HOUGAN, about 1857 in WI. (Berta Maria Knudsdatter REISHUS was born in Apr 1841 in Norway and died after 1910 in America.)

  Marriage Notes:

the son of her mother's second husband