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Welcome to my genealogical website. Here you will find the entire text of my book on the Norwegian settlers in the Manitowoc County area of Wisconsin, entitled Manitowoc-skogen, and my research on a number of families in the United States, Canada, Norway, and Great Britain. If you find this site and the information presented here useful, please leave a comment or contact me. Otherwise enjoy your visit.


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Last updated on January 16th, 2014 by Robert A. Bjerke

This ancestral chart includes lines of descent of these families: From Canada: Lemieux, Gagnon, Brais, Rousseau, Daigneau From Germany: Krohn, Milarch, Panzer LEMIEUX

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Last updated on January 16th, 2014 by Robert A. Bjerke

The family of Robert Bolton (died 1878) and his wife Ann Bullis (died 1904), who farmed in Wolfe Island Township, Ontario, Canada. BOLTON

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Last updated on January 17th, 2014 by Robert A. Bjerke

The family of John and Elizabeth Reinert, who farmed in Lake Township, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, from c. 1850 to c. 1860.

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Last updated on January 25th, 2014 by Robert A. Bjerke

The descendants of Pierre Vaillant (died 1735) and his wife Jeanne Faucheux (died 1721), of the Parish of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade in Quebec. The family members who settled in Frontenac County, Ontario, in the first half of the 1800s changed the name to Vallier. VALLIER

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Last updated on January 29th, 2014 by Robert A. Bjerke

The descendants of Jens Bjørnsen, who owned the farm Hovland in Lunner in Norway from 1726 to 1738. Descendants in the agnate line have used the surnames Antonsen, Berg, Bjerke, Bjerkek, Gilbertson, Gulbrandson, Herstuen, Johansen, Johnson, Moe, Molstad, Nauring, Sandvold, Stenberg, Sjøvold. BJERKE

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Last updated on January 21st, 2013 by Robert A. Bjerke

The descendants of Henrik Henriksen, who lived at the farm Spetalen in Stange in Norway in the 1740s. ROHNE

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Last updated on January 30th, 2014 by Robert A. Bjerke

The descendants of Hans Syversen (1724-1767) and his wife Kari Nielsdatter (1833-1793), who farmed at Granum in Etnedal.

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Last updated on January 21st, 2014 by Robert A. Bjerke

The descendants of Robert Dowie (1816-1871) and his wife Jane Bellonby (1814-1881), who emigrated from Gateshead, County Durham, to Kingston, Ontario, about 1848. DOWIE

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Last updated on January 30th, 2014 by Robert A. Bjerke

The descendants of agricultural laborer Thomas Ellkinton (died 1860) and his wife Ann Pearson (died 1857), who lived in Frampton Parish in Lincolnshire in England. Their two sons emigrated to the United States in 1851. Until about 1880, the name was spelled Ellkinton. Two genealogies are appended: The Elkingtons of Brant County, Ontario The family […]

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Last updated on January 30th, 2014 by Robert A. Bjerke

The descendants of John Bush (1790-1866) and his wife Mary Holden (1787-1862), natives of Lincolnshire in England. In the 1850s they emigrated to the United States and settled in Wisconsin, as did their three sons and their daughter Nancy. BUSH

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