Hans Engebretsen BURGESS

   Other names for Hans were Hans Engebretsen BJORGE, Hans Albertsen BURGESS, Hans Ingebretsen BURGESS and Hans Engebretsen ROTAAS.

  Birth Notes:

[#122, p148, 1854]

  Noted events in his life were:

• Alt. Birth, 24 Aug 1854, Norway.

• Census: farm Rotaas (nedre), 1865, Ringebu, Oppland, Norway. District no. Page School distr. Local parish Parish Farm Remarks (farm) Title
764 9 219 Nordre Stranden og Randklev Vækkum Ringebo Rotaas (nedre) 241a 2

Pers.no. Household Given name Last name Family pos. Occupation Marital status Age Sex Birth place Horses Cattle Sheep Pig Rye Barley Mixed grain Potatoes
4782 11 1 Engebret Hans. Huusfader Gaardbruger og Selveier g 46 m Froens Prgj. 4 24 22 3 1/2 8 1/2 5
4783 12 Anna Arnesd. hans Kone g 57 k Ringebo Prgj.
4784 13 Ahne Engebretsd. deres Datter ug 17 k Ringebo Prgj.
4785 14 Gina Engebretsd. deres Datter ug 15 k Ringebo Prgj.
4786 15 Hans Engebrets. deres Søn ug 12 m Ringebo Prgj.
4787 16 Hans Gulbrands. Tjenestekarl ug 18 m Ringebo Prgj.
4788 17 Marthe Gulbrandsd. Tjenestepige ug 17 k Ringebo Prgj.
4789 18 Erland Anders. Tjenestekarl ug 36 m Froens Prgj.
4790 19 Østen Ols. Inderst Skomager ug 23 m Ringebo Prgj.
4791 20 Ole Hans. Føderaadsmand g 52 m Ringebo Prgj.
4792 21 Mari Bottolfsd. hans Kone g 55 k Ringebo Prgj.

• Immigration: from Norway, 1873, America. leaving Ringebo 12 May 1873...

17 Hans Engebretsen 23/8 54 America
Sondre Bjorge 23/5 69 [confirmation, #8, p185]

[#17, p322, 1873]

• Land, 1913, Dunn County, North Dakota, USA. 326962 BURGESS, HANS 4/18/1913 05730 ND 5th PM 142N - 091W N½SW¼ 8 Dunn
142N - 091W SW¼SW¼ 8 Dunn

• Reference: Dodge, 1915, Dunn County, North Dakota, USA. This Northern Pacific Railroad station was founded in 1914 in Section 10-144-91, Loring Township. Railroad official Lee C. Pettibone named it for George W. Dodge, a banker from Anoka, Minnesota who owned the townsite, although local residents had suggested Loring or Mittelstedt as the name of the town. The post office was established December 21, 1915 with Hans A. Burgess as Postmaster. The elevation is 2004, the Zip Code is 58625, and the village, which incorporated in 1917, reached a peak population of 251 in 1950.

• Cemetery: Spring Creek Cemetery, 1925, Mercer County, North Dakota, USA.

• Reference: Early Settlers in Twin Valley. 5. Hans Burgess was born in Ringebu parish in Norway in 1854. he came here to America in '78 and settled in Black River Falls, Wis. He lived there until '86 when he moved here to Norman Co., Minn. He worked first for some years for Andrews and Hampton in Ada, later he moved to Twin City, where he is now the City's Postmaster. He also has a farm some miles east of the city. He has a wife and several children.

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Hans married Marit Amundsdatter TOKSEN, daughter of Amund Iversen TOKSEN and Kari Rasmusdatter, on 3 Jul 1877 in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA.¹ (Marit Amundsdatter TOKSEN was born on 23 Dec 1855 in Sør-Fron, Oppland, Norway, baptized on 10 Feb 1856 in Sør-Fron, Oppland, Norway and died on 16 May 1938 in America.)