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| Anders Wiborg took over as sexton in 1801. | | Anders Wiborg took over as sexton in 1801. |
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| During his episcopal visitation in Lesja in 1806 Bishop Bech recorded that on 20 July that minister Jordhøy gave a very appropriate, heartfelt, fluent sermon. He further mentions: “The Sexton is an industrious and gifted man.”<ref>SA Oslo, Kristiania bishop’s archive, supervision, visitation records, inspection 1, package 1 (1732-1810), bishop’s visits for 1806, 20 July 1806 in Lesja parish.</ref> | | During his episcopal visitation in Lesja in 1806 Bishop Bech recorded that on 20 July that minister Jordhøy gave a very appropriate, heartfelt, fluent sermon. He further mentions: “The Sexton is an industrious and gifted man.”<ref>SA Oslo, Kristiania bishop’s archive, supervision, visitation records, inspection 1, package 1 (1732-1810), bishop’s visits for 1806, 20 July 1806 in Lesja parish.</ref> |
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| It is probable that Anders Wiborg was reasonably prosperous for the period. He not only held an income as a sexton, but was the owner and operator of Sili. In 1768 before buying Sili in 1770, his father wrote the bishop that he had never expected that a sexton’s income would completely cover expenses, and adds that even at the croft Lierberg (a less productive farm than Sili), “when God gives us a good year so that wind & frost don’t waste & destroy the grain, my income can be reckoned at 50 or 60 riksdalers.”<ref>Kristiania Bishop’s Archive, Sextons, pk. 8, letter from Fredrik Wiborg, dated at Leirberg on 26. October 1768. Statsarkivet, Oslo.</ref> When Lassen visited Lesja in 1777, he recorded the production for Sili as yielding ten tons of grain and having 50 head of cattle, of which 30 were mature and 20 were calves. There were 7 horses on the farm and two crofts. And the farm ran both a wadmal stamping mill.<ref>Lassen, Nicolai Christian : “Diary from 1777 concerning a trip through Gudbrandsdalen” reprinted in Lillihammer in 1933, page 11</ref> This sexton in Lesja had more sources of income than the income from his farm and from the sexton’s position; for example he ran the sawmill at Flågåstad in Lesja for a period<ref>National Archives of Norway, Rentekammeret, fogdregnskap for Gudbrandsdal year 1800, summary of sawmills in Gudbrandsdal, identified “Flagestad saug” (Flågåstad sawmill) in Lesja. The saw owners name and authorization were recorded as: sexton Wiborg; licensed to saw from 25 July 1782; the saw is not destroyed and is being operated on the owner’s property. Ownership is somewhat unclear as none of the mortgage records for the period indicate that any Wiborg owned Flågåstad in Lesja from 1779 – 1789.</ref>. Hence when The local historian Ivar Kleiver called sexton Anders Wiborg in Lesja a well-to-do man who lived on the fine, well maintained farm, Sili, he was probably accurate.<ref>Ivar Kleiven: “Lesja og Dovre” (Kristiania 1923) page 149</ref>
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| ==Family lineage== | | ==Family lineage== |