#33 - Legendary: Ole Torsen

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks (2021-02)

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is a series of weekly prompts to get you to think about an ancestor and share something about them. The weekly prompt is provided by www.amyjohnsoncrow.com. The prompt for the week beginning January 10 is Family Legend.  In her email to introduce the theme, Amy provides some inspiration, and I took from it her message: "Perhaps you have an ancestor who was legendary (or should have been)."

So for this week's blog entry, I'm writing about Ole Torsen since he should be legendary because he is my oldest documented paternal ancestor.  Ole is my 5th-Great Grandfather.   He appears in the 1801 Norwegian Census for Trøgstad, Østfold county.

Cropped image from the 1801 Census:

Transcription of Census:

5th Family	Ole Torsen	Man	80	Widow after 1st Marriage	Houseman with land
	Oloug Jonsdatter	His Wife	57	Her 1st Marriage
	Hans Olsen	Their Children	19	-
	Lars Olsen		13	-
	Ingebor Olsdatter		25	-

So from this census, we can calculate Ole's approximate year of birth to be 1721.  At this point we don't know who was Ole's first wife, and if and how many children they may have had.  We also don't know if Ole and Oloug had any other children at this time.  But it is interesting to see how old both Ole (67) and Oloug (44) were when Lars was born.  

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How I'm related to Ole Torsen:

5th Great Grandparents	Ole Torsen Oloug Jonsdatter
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4th Great Grandparents	Hans Olsen Ane Halvorsdatter
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3rd Great Grandparents	Ole Hansen Johanna Andersdatter
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2nd Great Grandparents	Laurits Olsen Amalie Jensdatter
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Great Grandparents	Ludvig Olsen Gulborg Gulbrandsen
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Grandparents	Clifford Olsen Emma Hillenbrand
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Parents	Father Mother
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	Me