Hi,
thanks very much for the reply!
Just to specify about the names, my great-grandmothers name was:
First-name: Bergit (also spelt Birgit).
Last-name: Tovsdatter.
Her foster-father:
First-name: Gullik.
Last-name: Gulliksen.
Her foster-mother:
First-name: Aase.
Last-name: Levorsdatter.
Her father, (also lived in America, according to the Rollag Bygdebok, (Rollag ‘County’-book), but I don’t know where exactly, unfortunately).
First-name: Tov.
Last-name: Pedersen.
Her mother, (who also lived in America, according to the mentioned book), was sister of Gullek Gullekson.
First-name: Jøran.
Last-name: Gulleksdatter.
It might well be, that you have found, the right Gullek Gullekson.
Because ‘Gulleksrud’ is really the name of the farm he grew up on, in Rollag, in Norway, (so I should perhaps not have added that name), and ‘Gullekson’ is his last-name, (like on Iceland, they still have last-names like that, it means son of Gullek, so his name means: Gullek son of Gullek).
I attach a scan from Rollag Bygdebok, (Rollag ‘Village-book’), where it says that Gullek Gulleksson was born in 1836.
Is that the same birth-year as the Gullick in Gilby, I was wondering.
Gullek later moved back to Rollag, Norway, and there he bought the farm Traaen, and changed his name to Gullek G. Traaen, (after the farm), and he found a viking-silver-treasure, on his farm, (a treasure named after the farm, and which is quite famous in Norway. I’ve sometimes wondered if he found it in America and brought it to Norway, but I guess you didn’t have any vikings in North Dakota. Bergits daugter Ågot, was my grandmother, (and almost like a mother to me, during my upbringing), but she never mentioned that her mother had lived in America, or that her foster-father found a well-known treasure. But there could have been other reasons, I guess).
Thanks very much for the help with this.
I’ve also sent an e-mail to Sons of Norway, in Fargo.
But they haven’t replied yet.
My father, (Arne Mogan Olsen), would sometimes go on quite long holidays to the USA, in the 1980’s.
But when I went to Detroit, in 2005, (to have a look around in the USA), then I was just sent back to Europe, by the airport-police.
But I should have known that my great grandmother had lived in North Dakota, then I could have explained that, to the airport-police.
Then I would have been allowed to go on holiday, in the USA, i guess.
I’ve found about this, (that Gullek Gullekson went to North Dakota), in the Norwegian National-librarty online archive.
I can see if I find that file again here, and try to send it on Facebook.
Thanks very much for the help!
Best regards,
Erik Ribsskog
PS.
For ‘the record’.
I see that you use another name than your own, on Facebook.
But I see that that person, works at the same library as you, (it seems).
I saw that Fargo Public Library had a web-form contact-page.
But I’m not that found of web-forms, since I think they don’t always send back a copy of the correspondence.
So I thought I could try to write on Facebook.
Hope this is alright!
