Ole Hansson ONSTAD

   Other names for Ole were Ole HANSON and Ole OHNSTAD.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Notes. Ole Hansson was a son of cotter Hans Nilsson and his wife Anna Olsdoter. Both Hans and Anna were from the farm Onstad in Aurland, Sogn of Fjordane, Norway and came to America in 1866. In America, Ole was know as Ole Hanson. Ole was a well digger.

• Immigration: from Norway, 1866, America.

• Census: Albert Lea, 1870, Freeborn County, MN. line 31

206 219 Hanson Ole 24 laboroer Norway
--- Britta 26 keeping house Norway
--- Martin 9/12 MN


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• Census: Albert Lea, District 97, 1880, Freeborn County, MN. line 10

275 282 Hanson Ole 35
--- Betsy 35
--- Andrew 3
--- Nels 2
--- Matilda 1M

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Ole married Brita Nilson HALSETEIG, daughter of Nils Nilsen HALSETEIG and Brithe Wikingsdatter STEIG, on 4 Apr 1869 in Freeborn County, MN.¹ (Brita Nilson HALSETEIG was born on 28 Jul 1844 in Hafslo, Sogn Og Fjordane, Norway ², baptized on 28 Jul 1844 in Hafslo, Sogn Og Fjordane, Norway and died after 1930.)

  Marriage Notes:

1930 census says she married at 21 so that would be before she left Norway