Ole & Johanne Alm Immigrate

Digitalarkivet: Migrants from Gran 1825-1900 and Jevnaker 1837-1901. [15515/39]
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	First name	Last name	Farm	Birth Year	Occupation	Year	Date	No	Destination	Parish
5575	Ole	Eriks	Badstuen Tg	1829	Hmd	1888	4. mai	22	Amerika	Gran
5578	Johanne	Hansd	Badstuen Tg	1832	Hustru	1888	4. mai	23	Amerika	Gran
5581	Hans	Ols	Badstuen Tg	1864	Søn	1888	4. mai	24	Amerika Flytteår Ukjent	Gran
5584	Martia	Olsd	Badstuen Tg	1868	Datter	1888	4. mai	25	Amerika	Gran
5587	Oline	Olsd	Badstuen Tg	1872	Datter	1888	4. mai	26	Amerika	Gran
5590	Johanne	Olsd	Badstuen Tg	1879	Datter	1888	4. mai	27	Amerika	Gran

The University of Bergen's Digitalarkivet shows the "Udflyttede" entries (leaving the parish) when Ole, Johanne and their three daughters Martha, Oline, and Johanne left Gran for America.

Note that Hans is also listed as a family member but "flytteår ukjent" means that he is already in America at the time the family left.

SS Rollo

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	Page	Line	Departure	First name	Last Name	Occupation	Age	Line	Ship
108437	461	10	May 11, 1888	Ole E.	Badstuen	Worker	57	Bennett	Rollo
108438	461	11	May 11, 1888	Johanne H.	Badstuen		55	Bennett	Rollo
108439	461	12	May 11, 1888	Oline O.	Badstuen	servant	17	Bennett	Rollo
108440	461	13	May 11, 1888	Johanne	Badstuen	servant	8	Bennett	Rollo
108441	461	14	May 11, 1888	Mathea O.	Badstuen	servant	21	Bennett	Rollo
108442	461	15	May 11, 1888	Maria B.	Morstuen (sp)	servant	20	Bennett	Rollo
108443	461	16	May 11, 1888	Erik O A	Rekstad	Worker	20	Bennett	Rollo

The records indicate that Mathea, Maria and Erik were all traveling as individuals, while Ole, his wife Johanne, and daughters Oline and Johanne were traveling as a family unit. This may reflect how their tickets were paid for and we could speculate that, if Hans did pay for his parents and youngest sister, he may well have arranged the ticket for Oline as well. The register also records that Erik was traveling with 20 (kr?) in cash. No "pocket money" is listed for any other family members.

The ship "Rollo" was actually associated with the Wilson line and provided service from Norway to Hull, England. The family took a train from Hull to Liverpool to board another ship for the transatlantic passage.

From Liverpool to New York

SS Wyoming - from the book Ships of Our Ancestors. auth: Michael Anuta, Genealogical Publishing Co - 1993

Ole and his family boarded the ship "SS Wyoming" of the Guion Line in Liverpool and arrived in New York on May 29, 1888.

From a recollection written by one of Martha's descendants:

...The passage from Christiania to New York City took only three weeks. They traveled by steamboat in which cattle had been hauled the year before. They brought their own food; dried meat, sausage, cheese, flatbrod -in a small round topped trunk. (The round topped trunks were preferred because others could not be stacked on top, thus one had easier access to one's belongings.) Food was provided on the boat but they used only the potatoes. The entire family was seasick most of the way over except for Ole himself. He found a card playing buddy in Erick Anderson (Rekstad) who was traveling alone and was also bound for Watson, Minnesota. Erick had a bottle of whiskey with him which ensured his friendship with Ole Erikson....

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110	Mathia Badstuen	servant
113	Ole Badstuen	farmer
114	Joha Badstuen	wife
115	Oline Badstuen	??
116	Joha Badstuen	child

Erik Rekstad is #91 on the passenger list

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