Hi,
thank you for your e-mail!
Hans Nelson is also mentioned by Ulvestad as one of the first Norwegian setlers in Nobles County.
And from one of the attachments you sent, it appears that Hans Nelson was married, from before he went to Nobles County.
So then it could be that these setlers traveled with their wifes etc., I guess.
And it could be that this is the my great-grandfather Gullik Gulliksen, (and that he traveled with his wife Aase and foster-daughter Birgit, my great-grandmother).
Gullik went to America in 1867, (see attachment), and then went back to Norway again in 1887, (see attachment).
And he worked as a farmer in America, (the attachment says, which is from a census, in Norway, it seems).
And the last state that Gullik lived in was North Dakota, (the same attachment says).
My great-grandmothers uncle and foster-father Gullik Gulliksen found a well-know viking-treasure in Rollag, in Numedal, on June 6th 1906.
(This treasure is called 'Traaen-skatten'.
I've wondered if Gullik could have found these viking-stuff in America, and brought it back to Norway, (because I also read in the Ulvestad-books, at the Norwegian National Library, that many of the indians were white, so they could have been decendants of the vikings perhaps.
But I guess that isn't that likely.
It's more likely that they were from Numedal.
Even if I today read at a library, (in an old newspaper), that a Gullik Gulliksen from Numedal had been cought trying to sell silver from the Kongsberg silver-mines, in Oslo.
But I haven double-checked this yet, with the years etc.).
I was wondering if Hans Nelson's desendants perhaps would know more about this, (if Hans Nelsons travel-mate Gullik Gulliksen had a wife named Aase etc, and where Gullik went to after Nobles County).
Are there any Nelsons in Nobles County that perhaps would know this, (I was wondering).
Thanks in advance for any help!
Best regards,
Erik RibsskogPS.
Nelson btw. also seems Americanized to me.
Nilsen is the 'normal version' of hit name, in Norway, (I'd say).
And also Hans Nelson's mother's name was Betsy, (it says in your attachment).
But Betsy isn't a 'normal' Norwegian name.
It could be Americanised from like 'Beate' perhaps, (I was wondering).
But I guess Mr. Nelson had stayed for a long time in America, when he went to Nobles County, so he perhaps has gotten a bit Americanized byt the time he got there.
But I could also be wrong, I guess.
But this, (Mr. Nelson), I can also try to find out more about in Norwegian sources.
Thanks again for the help!
