Fredrik og Kristine Isaksen i Fjære - En utvandrerhistorie: Forskjell mellom sideversjoner

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[[Fredrik og Kristine Isaksen i Fjære - En utvandrerhistorie]] vil være fortellingen om ekteparet på Vik som opplevde at de fleste av etterkommerne levde sine liv i Amerika. Vi samler fakta og opplevelser fra begge sider av [[Atlanterhavet]] og lar dette være en historie som også kan representere mange andre familier. Dermed vil også noe av teksten være på engelsk, etterkommernes morsmål.
[[Fredrik og Kristine Isaksen i Fjære - En utvandrerhistorie]] vil være fortellingen om ekteparet på Vik som opplevde at de fleste av etterkommerne levde sine liv i Amerika. Vi samler fakta og opplevelser fra begge sider av [[Atlanterhavet]] og lar dette være en historie som også kan representere mange andre familier. Dermed vil også noe av teksten være på engelsk, etterkommernes morsmål. Men Fredrik Isaksen var selv innvandrer til Norge. Han hadde reist fra sitt opphav og sine kjære i [[Sverige]].
Mye av materialet er gjort tilgjengelig av Fredrik og Kristines oldebarn i USA, Ann Isaksen Greitzer.
Mye av materialet er gjort tilgjengelig av Fredrik og Kristines oldebarn i [[USA]], Ann Isaksen Greitzer.


== Fredrik og Kristine ==
== Fredrik og Kristine ==
=== Slekt ===
'''Fredrik Isaksen''' er født 16. desember 1868 i Sverige.
'''Fredrik Isaksen''' er født 16. desember 1868 i Sverige.
'''Anne Kristine Isaksen''' er født i 1867 i Fjære.  
'''Anne Kristine Isaksen, født Hansen''' er født i 1867 i Fjære.  
I 1900 er han "Arbeider ved Jernskibsbyggeri" og i 1910 er han skipstømmermann.
 
Fredrik Isaksen er født i Sverige i 1867. Hans foreldre er Isak Olausson (1839-1896) og Anna Andersdotter (1830-1880).
Isak Olausson ble g2m Hedda C. Nilsdotter (1850-1924.
 
'''Fredrik Isaksens søsken''':
 
Isak og Anna fikk:
*Carl Oscar Isaksson (1869-1885)
*Amanda Isaksdotter (1867)
*Augusta C. Isaksdotter (1864-1865)
*Martin Andersson 1870-1874 (??)
*Fredrik Isaksson (1867-1944)
 
Isak og Hedda fikk:
*Karl Oskar Isaksson (1886-1949)
*Augusta M. Isaksdotter (1889-1967)
*Otto E. Andersson (1893-1956)
 
Anne Christine er født 11 august 1867 i Fjære. Foreldrene er tømmermann Hans Olsen (1833-1882) og hustru Ingeborg Arnesdatter Vig (1839-1872).
Se dåpsnotatet her: [[https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20060203020011]].
 
'''Anna Christines søsken''':
 
Hans og Ingeborg fikk:
*Anne Kristine Hansdatter 1867-196x.
*Ole Hansen 1867-1867
*Else Kirstine Hansdatter 1863
*Olevine A. Hansdatter f 1865. G1m Ole Andersen (1861-1887) og g2m Andreas Jensen.
*Gunder Emil Hansen f 1872
*Hanna S. Hansdatter f 1875
Det er også notert at Ingeborg Arnesdatter og Andreas Knudsen (f 1830) fikk Anna elise Andreasdatter i 1883.
 
=== Arbeid, bosted m.v. ===
Det kan virke som om Fredrik og Kristine overtar bruket Jakobsplassen etter hennes slekt. Se mer nedenfor.
 
I 1900 er han "Arbeider ved Jernskibsbyggeri" og i 1910 er han skipstømmermann. Ved Ingarts dåp i 1901 omtales Fredrik som sjømann og ved konfirmasjonen i 1915 som tømmermann.
I 1910 står det i folketellingen under "Antatt oppholdssted": "Amerika 1 1/2 aar". Dette kan bety at far Fredrik også har hatt utferdstrang og har oppholdt seg i USA.
I 1910 står det i folketellingen under "Antatt oppholdssted": "Amerika 1 1/2 aar". Dette kan bety at far Fredrik også har hatt utferdstrang og har oppholdt seg i USA.


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=== Minner fra Vik ===
=== Minner fra Vik ===
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fil:Ingart's home in Norway.jpg|Hus omtalt som "Ingarts home in Norway", men foreløpig ikke sikkert identifisert.
fil:Ingart's home in Norway.jpg|Hus omtalt som "Ingarts home in Norway", men foreløpig ikke sikkert identifisert.


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fil:19440311 GAT Dødsannonse Fredrik Isaksen.jpg|Fredrik Isaksen dør i 1944 (Grimstad adressetidende 11/3 1944)
fil:19440311 GAT Dødsannonse Fredrik Isaksen.jpg|Fredrik Isaksen dør i 1944 (Grimstad adressetidende 11/3 1944)
Fil:PhotoScan (2).jpg|Magne Bringsverd skriver: "Dette er jo Vikkrysset slik det så ut i gamle dager med Vikilen i bakgrunnen. I gården til venstre bodde i sin tid Sigurd Thorstein. Det er revet og Johannes Kristiansen har bygd nytt. ... Man ser også den store bautasteinen som nå er flyttet litt lenger opp i Temseveien.". Ann Isaksen Greitzer: "This the front of the 1939 postcard that has the birthday wishes to my grandfather Ingart written on the back. It is from his parents Fredrik and Kristine Isaksen who remained in Norway. I am hoping it is a photo of their home in Vik. In 1939 they were both 71 years old and probably no longer farming. Later that month, they both sailed to America to visit our family in Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York for the last time."


Fil:A PhotoScan (2).jpg|On 15 June 1950, my great-grandmother Anne Kristine Isaksen died. She was a widow. This photo has an "auction date" written on the back of 09 Sep 1950. This was probably the disposition of household items after Anne Kristine's death. Information from probate records shows that her daughter Anna Isaksen Love was deeded the property for 7,000 Kr. on 22 Dec 1950. I don't think her daughter stayed there the rest of her life; I believe this property was eventually sold to another family.
Fil:A PhotoScan (2).jpg|On 15 June 1950, my great-grandmother Anne Kristine Isaksen died. She was a widow. This photo has an "auction date" written on the back of 09 Sep 1950. This was probably the disposition of household items after Anne Kristine's death. Information from probate records shows that her daughter Anna Isaksen Love was deeded the property for 7,000 Kr. on 22 Dec 1950. I don't think her daughter stayed there the rest of her life; I believe this property was eventually sold to another family.
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== Familien på Vik ==
== Familien på Vik ==
Fredrik og Kristine fikk:
Fredrik og Kristine fikk:
*Fanny Konstanse Isaksen, født 1891 i Fjære.
*'''Fanny Konstanse Isaksen''', født 1891 i Fjære, død 1974. Gift med Carl Carlsen (1891-1930).
*Hans Isaksen, født 1895 i Fjære. Gift med Stine. I 1910 er Hans oppført som fabrikkarbeider, fortsatt bosatt med sine foreldre.
*'''Hans Isaksen''', født 1895 i Fjære, død 1978. Gift med Stine B. O. Olsen (1895-1985). I 1910 er Hans oppført som fabrikkarbeider, fortsatt bosatt med sine foreldre.
*Anna Isaksen, født 1898 i Fjære. Hun ble gift med Joseph Love/Lowe, født 1896 i [[Larvik]].
*'''Anna Isaksen''', født 1898 i Fjære. Hun ble gift med Joseph Love/Lowe, født 1896 i [[Larvik]].
*Ingart Isaksen, født 10/5 1901 i Fjære, gift med Gertrude
*'''Ingart Isaksen''', født 10/5 1901 i Fjære, død 1969. Gift med Gudrun/Gertrude A. Steinersen (1906-1991) [[Nissedal]].
**Robert Isaksen
**Robert Isaksen
***Ann Isaksen Greitzer
***Ann Isaksen Greitzer
*Ingeborg Isaksen, født 1902 i Fjære.
*'''Ingeborg Isaksen''', født 1902 i Fjære.
*Arnold Isaksen, født 1904 i Fjære, gift med Anna fra [[Lyngdal]].
*'''Arnold Isaksen''', født 1904 i Fjære, død 1945. Gift med Anna Ingebretsen (1908-1982) fra [[Lyngdal]].
**Arthur Isaksen 1944-2003. Bodde i Brooklyn, New York.
**Arthur Isaksen 1944-2003. Bodde i Brooklyn, New York.


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=== Familiebilder Isaksen ===
=== Familiebilder Isaksen ===
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Fil:Anna og Fanny Isaksen.jpg|This is a photo of my two great-aunts - sisters - Fanny Konstanse Isaksen (b. 1891 in Fjaere) and Anna Isaksen (b. 1898 in Fjaere). Anna is the only child of Fredrik and Kristine Isaksen for whom I do not know the date and place of death.
Fil:Anna og Fanny Isaksen.jpg|This is a photo of my two great-aunts - sisters - Fanny Konstanse Isaksen (b. 1891 in Fjaere) and Anna Isaksen (b. 1898 in Fjaere). Anna is the only child of Fredrik and Kristine Isaksen for whom I do not know the date and place of death.


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Fil:A PhotoScan (4).jpg|1936: According to the notes on the back of this photo, it was taken in the summer of 1936 outside the Framnæs Hotel in Nissedal. My grandmother Gudrun Steinersen Isaksen had this photo in her collection, but I do not know who Halvor, Sigrid, Tellef, Hage or Severin were.
Fil:A PhotoScan (4).jpg|1936: According to the notes on the back of this photo, it was taken in the summer of 1936 outside the Framnæs Hotel in Nissedal. My grandmother Gudrun Steinersen Isaksen had this photo in her collection, but I do not know who Halvor, Sigrid, Tellef, Hage or Severin were.
Fil:PhotoScan (3).jpg|1936: The Framnæs Hotel in Nissedal must have had special significance for my family in Norway. This is likely from 1936.
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Ann Isaksen Greitzer forteller: "Like his father (Fredrik) before him, my grandpa Ingart Isaksen was also a carpenter and a shipbuilder. Eventually, Grandpa Ingart later became a farmer and raised dairy cows on 78 acres in rural New York after World War II."
Ann Isaksen Greitzer forteller: "Like his father (Fredrik) before him, my grandpa Ingart Isaksen was also a carpenter and a shipbuilder. Eventually, Grandpa Ingart later became a farmer and raised dairy cows on 78 acres in rural New York after World War II."
"My father tells me that after my grandfather Ingart immigrated to the US from Fjaere he was a carpenter for many years, building ships in Brooklyn. Certainly Ingart must have learned much of this from his father Fredrik. After World War 2 ended, that work became scarce for Ingart. It was at this time that Ingart moved his family to the rural part of New York where they then ran a dairy farm with many cows. It seems that he went back to his roots as his father also did the same in Norway."


=== Amerikabilder ===
=== Amerikabilder ===
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Fil:Ingart isaksen.jpg|Ann Isaksen Greitzer: "My father's father, and Fredrik and Kristine's son - Ingart Isaksen. He met my grandmother Gudrun Steinersen and married in 1925, and later had two sons and a daughter. In all the pictures I have of him when he was young, he was a very affectionate father and loved his children so much. He was always holding them when they were very small. My dad tells this story: "My first memory of him is him trying to get me to eat green beans. He would tell me "this is a load of Norway Spruce" and the next forkful was "Ponderosa Pine". He was a very gentle man totally devoted to my mother. While not a great reader he loved Sherlock Holmes. He told us stories of the great detective to put us to sleep."
 
Fil:Ingart med sønner.jpg|1938: Ingart Isaksen med Robert og en eldre sønn. Ann Isaksen Greitzer: " I come to know of the many shipbuilding companies in Norway. The carpentry skills of Fredrik and Ingart were passed down to my father Robert Isaksen (b. 1937) who still makes beautiful wood furniture today. My father writes this of Grandpa Ingart: "One of my dad's lessons did stick with me. I had summer jobs in construction while in college. I wasn't sure what level of speed was expected in the workplace. I was prone to work very fast and not do the most perfect job. He said, "slow and steady is the best". And I found that he was right. Whenever I rushed a job, I would make mistakes. My dad was a very gentle man, and I think I learned a lot from that."
 
fil:1939 Isaksen ship photo 2.jpg|1939: This 1939 photo shows the last of 4 trips my great-grandfather Fredrik Isaksen made by ship to NY from Norway, along with my great-grandmother Anne Kristine Isaksen (her only trip). Directly behind them are my grandfather Ingart, his brother Arnold, Arnold's wife Anna Ingebretsen, and his brother Hans
fil:1939 Isaksen ship photo 2.jpg|1939: This 1939 photo shows the last of 4 trips my great-grandfather Fredrik Isaksen made by ship to NY from Norway, along with my great-grandmother Anne Kristine Isaksen (her only trip). Directly behind them are my grandfather Ingart, his brother Arnold, Arnold's wife Anna Ingebretsen, and his brother Hans
Fil:19390608 Nord tidende - Oslofjord med Isaksen - utsnitt.jpg|1939: [[Nordisk tidende]] skriver 8/6 1939 om Oslofjords amerikatur, og gir plass til omtale av Isaksenfamiliens besøk.
Fil:19390928 Nord tidende - Isaksen hjemover.jpg|1939: [[Nordisk tidende]] forteller 28/9 1939 om Isaksens hjemreise fra USA.


fil:1939 Isaksen family photo 2.jpg|From the 1939 visit: Standing: Gertrude Isaksen (son Ingart's wife - my grandma who handed down all these photos to me), Anne Kristine Isaksen, Stine Isaksen (son Han's wife), Anna Ingebretsen Isaksen (son Arnold's wife), son Arnold Isaksen. Seated: Son Ingart Isaksen and my dad Robert Isaksen age 2, Fredrik Isaksen with my uncle Clifford Isaksen age 4
fil:1939 Isaksen family photo 2.jpg|From the 1939 visit: Standing: Gertrude Isaksen (son Ingart's wife - my grandma who handed down all these photos to me), Anne Kristine Isaksen, Stine Isaksen (son Han's wife), Anna Ingebretsen Isaksen (son Arnold's wife), son Arnold Isaksen. Seated: Son Ingart Isaksen and my dad Robert Isaksen age 2, Fredrik Isaksen with my uncle Clifford Isaksen age 4
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Fil:Ingart, Fanny, Fredrik, Kristine, Hans and Anna.jpg|1939: Son Ingart, Daughter Fanny, Fredrik, Kristine, Son Hans and Daughter Anna
Fil:Ingart, Fanny, Fredrik, Kristine, Hans and Anna.jpg|1939: Son Ingart, Daughter Fanny, Fredrik, Kristine, Son Hans and Daughter Anna
Fil:75f4dd96-8534-4365-aba6-dfa6411efb52.jpg|1950-tallet: Ann Isaksen Greitzer: "My grandpa Ingart Isaksen was my last direct link to Norway, him having been born and raised in Fjaere. Below are two more pictures of him in his later years: ... and the other picture is with my father and his brother in the 1950's on their farm in rural NY. My grandpa Ingart Isaksen on the left (b. 1901 Fjaere) worked very long hours as a union carpenter in the Brooklyn Navy Yard building U.S. warships during World War 2. He left home long before sunrise and to get to work he had to ride a trolley, a ferry and a subway. He didn't return home until well after sundown. My father says he was so tired some nights he would fall asleep standing in the kitchen."
Fil:Ac3c1db2-e6d2-4605-b55f-0119d882ba84.jpg|1960-tallet: Ann Isaksen Greitzer: "Grandpa Ingart and Grandma Gertrude (born Gudrun Steinersen in 1906) raised my father and his siblings in Staten Island, NY and later rural upstate New York. Grandma's family on her father's side were the Steinersens of Nissedal, Telemark, Norway, and on her mother's side were the Pedersens of Øyestad, Aust-Agder, Norway."
Fil:19420416 Nordisk tidende - dødsannonse Joseph Løve.jpg|1942: Joseph Løve, Anna Isaksens mann, dør i USA i 1942.
Fil:19451004 Nordisk Tidende Arnold Isaksen død.jpg|1945: Arnold Isaksen dør plutselig i 1945, 41 år gammel.
Fil:48f36fac-15f5-40f3-b605-5dc139e7a10e.jpg|Ann Isaksen Greitzer: "This photograph is of my great-aunt Anna Isaksen Love (or "Lowe") who was a daughter of Fredrik and Kristine Isaksen of Vik/Fjaere, and who was born in Fjaere in 1898. She sent the postcards from the Strand Hotel in Fevik to my grandfather Ingart in 1947. She was deeded the home in Vik in 1950 after Kristine's death. I do not know what became of her, it is possible she stayed in Norway - or she may have returned to the United States. She was married to a Joseph Love (or "Lowe") who was born in Larvik, Vestfold, Norway in 1896. Both of them came to the U.S. in the 1920's."
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=== Anna og Joseph Love ===
I [[Nordisk tidende]] 15/5 1919 finner vi et innlegg fra '''Joseph Love'''. Han forteller om den norske logen i New Haven, Connecticut. Kan dette være Anna Isaksens mann?


== Oldebarnets tanker om røtter og utflytting ==
== Oldebarnets tanker om røtter og utflytting ==
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== Jakobspladsen (Gnr 24:20) ==
== Jakobspladsen (Gnr 24:20) ==
''Denne skilles senere ut til egen artikkel!''
''Denne skilles kanskje senere ut til egen artikkel!''


Eiendommen Jakobspladsen er skilt ut fra gnr 24:12 i 1869. Bruket ble da skyldsatt til 2 øre.
Eiendommen Jakobspladsen er skilt ut fra gnr 24:12 i 1869. Bruket ble da skyldsatt til 2 øre.
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Peder Mathiassen selger eiendommen videre i 1894.
Peder Mathiassen selger eiendommen videre i 1894.
Ved Anne Kristine Hansens dåp i 1867 er tømmermann Mathias Pedersen Vig en av fadderne. Se Fredrik og Kristine Isaksen.


=== Gunder Emil Hansen ===
=== Gunder Emil Hansen ===
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=== Anna Lowe ===
=== Anna Lowe ===
{{thumb|48f36fac-15f5-40f3-b605-5dc139e7a10e.jpg|This photograph is of my great-aunt Anna Isaksen Love (or "Lowe") who was a daughter of Fredrik and Kristine Isaksen of Vik/Fjaere, and who was born in Fjaere in 1898. She sent the postcards from the Strand Hotel in Fevik to my grandfather Ingart in 1947. She was deeded the home in Vik in 1950 after Kristine's death. I do not know what became of her, it is possible she stayed in Norway - or she may have returned to the United States. She was married to a Joseph Love (or "Lowe") who was born in Larvik, Vestfold, Norway in 1896. Both of them came to the U.S. in the 1920's.|fotograf/kilde}}
I 1950 får '''Anna Lowe''', født 16/4 1898, hjemmel til eiendommen etter sine foreldre. Hun betaler 7.000.- kroner for dette.
I 1950 får '''Anna Lowe''', født 16/4 1898, hjemmel til eiendommen etter sine foreldre. Hun betaler 7.000.- kroner for dette.


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