
Brother or half-brother to Erlend Jenssen at Nordgården Vinsnes. He was the parish clerk, like his stepfather was. Gjartrud was a widow when she married Ola, and he widower. Ola Jenssen Vinsnes, born 1606 married (1) Gjartrud married (2) Gjertrud NN. Per Jenssen Vinsnes, born 1603 in Nor'gå'rn, Vinsnes, Singsås, Midtre Gauldal died Abt. 1654 in Nor'gå'rn, Vinsnes, Singsås, Midtre Gaul. Knut Jenssen Vinsnes Erlend Jenssen Vinsnes, born 1598 in Nor'gå'rn, Vinsnes, Singsås, Midtre Gaul died 1654 in Nor'gå'rn, Vinsnes, Singsås, Midtre Gaul married Dordi born in Bogen died Abt. Notes for Jens Vinsnes: Singsaasboka Bind III page 317 Children of Jens Vinsnes and Ragnhild are: i. 1606 in Nordgården Vinsnes, Singsås, Sør-Trøndelag. Ragnhild, born 1606 in Nor'gå'rn, Vinsnes, Singsås, Midtre Gauldal died Abt. 1616 in Nordgården Vinsnes, Singsås, Sør-Trøndelag. 1616 in Nor'gå'rn, Vinsnes, Singsås, Midtre Gauldal died Abt. Per Persen Vinsnes, born 1638 in Nordgården Vinsnes, Singsås, Sør-Trøndelag died 1701 in Nordgården Vinsnes, Singsås, Sør-Trøndelag Adopted child married Else Elevsdatter Kirkvold. Hans Persen Vinsnes, born 1636 in Nordgården Vinsnes, Singsås, Sør-Trøndelag. Notes for Per Jenssen Vinsnes: Took over half the farm Nordgarden Vinsnes Children of Per Vinsnes and Ingeborg are: 1 (That we know of) Else was the first woman in the district that could write her own name. Notes for Per Persen Vinsnes: Singsaas Boka Bind III, page 317 Farmer and shefiff Notes for Else Elevsdatter Kirkvold: It is noted that Else was born between 16.Else was the first woman in the district that could write her own name. She was the daughter of Elev Kirkvold and Kari. 1711 in Nordgården Vinsnes, Singsås, Sør-Trøndelag. 1640 - 1651 in Kirkvold, Singsås, Midtre Gauldal, and died Abt. He married (1) Else Elevsdatter Kirkvold. Per Persen Vinsnes, born 1638 in Nordgården Vinsnes, Singsås, Sør-Trøndelag died 1701 in Nordgården Vinsnes, Singsås, Sør-Trøndelag. In the case of Troøyen, I carried the Norwegian spelling down to Americans who spell it Trooien - sorry!Īncestors of Per Persen Vinsnes Generation No. Sometimes I've used Norwegian characters and often even in Norway, the farm names (surnames) are spelled differently.

Watch out for spelling differences for names. If you are from the Hendricks area and of Norwegian descent, look at the index in the back of the book as you might be amazed to find your immigrant, parent, grandparents are here. Since so many descended from this one person, I thought he deserved a book all of his own. It became apparent that there was one person found in the ancestry of almost all of the immigrants to the Hendricks area Per Persen Vinsnes, born 1638! In fact, one or both of the people in that original wagon train was a descendant of Per making it easy to say that ALL descendants of the “Trekkers”, are descendants of Per.

The 3rd part of the Trilogy contains family stories of many of the early settlers. Books have been published defining the ancestry and descendants of those honored ancestors, and a book The Hendricks Trilogy was published in 2010 that not only included The Immigrants Trek, but also a Masters Thesis of Jens Winsnes of Trondheim giving us a unique insight to the conditions that led to the migration. Researching the ancestry first of those on the wagon train, and then expanding to anyone who came from the areas of Singsaas, Haltdalen, Soknedal, and Haltdalen, the file now has over 10,000 names. It was Sunday, we were invited to church, and from then to now has been an amazing journey.

Walking the cemetery, I recognized so many names matched the friends I had made the year before in Singsaas Norway. Bev and I found the church there in Hendricks and were amazed it was the Singsaas Lutheran Church and in the front was a monument to those settlers on the wagon train. They stopped at the border between Minnesota and the Dakota Territory founding the town of Hendricks! I promised them I would go there the next summer on my return from the Winsness farm in North Dakota. During my first trip to Norway in 2001, it seemed everyone I met asked about a town named Hendricks Minnesota, however, I had no idea even where it was located! They told me of an incredible set of emigrants from the area who organized a wagon train in 1873 across the Minnesota prairie. With incredible support of Dag Einar Winsnes, Jens Winsnes, Ann-Carin Bøyesen, and the leader of dis-Norge (Norway's Genealogical Organization) Torill Johnson, the results have been amazing. Introduction For nearly 15 years, I have been tracing my ancestry, and that of many others, who came to America from the area of Singsaas, sor-Trondelag, Norway. 5 Ancestors of Else Elevsdatter Kirkvold. Per Persen Vinsnes born 1638 Singsaas, sor-Trondelag, Norway by Jim Winsness
