The population of Norway is only about 4,5 million today and in 1885 it was scarcely 1 million.
Fredrikshald (in notes refered to as "Fhald") is now known as Halden, the southernmost town in Eastern Norway, close to the border of Sweden.
Fredrikstad is a town 141 miles south of Oslo, about 35 000 inhabitants. The town was founded September 12th, 1567, - and as a town within the town a fortress was established there in 1663, which still exists. It is called "Gamlebyen" (the Old Town). It is said to be the among Europe's best preserved fortified towns from those times.
Larvik: This town's name is also found spelled "Larvig" and "Laurvig" depending on the period and the sources.
Notodden is a little town in Telemark County in Norway.
"Solum" was once a part of the town Skien, but was separated from Skien in 1738 and was then established as an independent parish and administrative county.
A short language lesson, American/Norwegian: Grandfather/bestefar, Great-grandfather/oldefar, Great-great-grandfather/tippoldefar, Great-great-great-grandfather/tipp-tippoldefar. So you see that norwegians use "tipp" where english speakers use "Great", however there will always be one more "Great" than "tipp"s!
Over 100 years ago, more than 5400 various Norwegian family histories/pedigrees were compiled by the French-Norwegian genealogist Charles Antoine Delgobe (1844-1916). However, his handwriting is not always easy to decifer. The pedigree of the Weckhorst family, together with other information on the family is held by the Public Record Office of Norway in Oslo. Many of the Weckhorst descendants now have copies of this pedigree (xeroxed copies).
HLW has double-checked all of his (HLW's) sources (where from most of the 'older' Weckhorst information in these pages comes). In some cases Delgobe's information is inaccurate. Dates and names that HLW has not confirmed have not been transcribed onto the Weckhorst pages.
Delgobe bequested to the Oslo section of the National Public Record Office include more than 5400 different families! It's an impressive work. All information was hand-written, and he did this on his free time, in spite of important and demanding work.
What's more; Carl Gustaf Marentius Weckhorst and his three sons all worked in the French Mining Company in Bamble. Guess who was the company's general manager; yes, it was - Delgobe!
I have begun the project to transcribe Delgobe's pages along with HLW's
notes as pertaining to particular entries.
See: Delgobe's Pages
Wilhelm Theodor Alexander Lassen (1815-1907) was another geneologist and a contemporary of Delgobe's. He also has information about the Weckhorst family. It is presumed that he is more accurate than Delgobe's, and very often he also gives the sources for his infos, thus one may be able to re-examine them.
Lassen's genealogical collected works consist of 80 books! Like Delgobe, Lassen did hand -written entriesin his free time. Another impressive work.
Schulze etc. info being sorted through
Kvinne = woman
Mann = man
Fornavn = First name
Etternavn = Family name, surname=20
Slett = delete
bestefar = Grandfather
oldefar = great-grandfather
tippoldefar = great-great-grandfather
tipp-tippoldefar = great-great-grandfather
"De 100 mest brukte..." = "The 100 most used.."
Gode ?nsker og hilsener fra = "best wishes and greetings from"
Gamlebyen = "the Old Town"
Tjenestepige" = "maid servant"
Tjeneste = service
pige = maid or girl (ancient...modern is "pike")
...to be aware of...
Names like Anne, Anna, Halvor, Halvorsen, are very common names in Norway today, and in 1885 were even more so. Accordaning to the Norwegian National Bureau of Statistics as of January 1st, 1998, the most popular name for girls in 1997 was Anne; they were 17,615. Anna was ranking no. 17 with 17, 398. There is 12,305 persons in Norway today with the family name Halvorsen.
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