User:Lilduff90/The Bjørgen family

The Bjørgen family is Norwegian familiar line, descending from the farm Bjørgjo on Halsnøy.

History
Bjørgjo was first used as a farm in the modern sense during the 1100s, but there are indications that the area has been inhabited since the bronze age. The farm was, like many farms during this age, left desolate following the plague in the 1350s. It was again built on during the late 1500s. The first familiar line came to the farm during this time, but left the farm in 1757 following bankrupcy and eviction.

Current family history
The current Bjørgen line of descendants is actually the second one to inhabit the farm. A previous family held the farm from the early 1600s until 1757, when they were evicted following a bankruptcy trial, ending with the forced auction of the farm the following year. The farm was purchased cheap by Kolbein Paulsson Sabø from Etne, who moved there with his wife and five children. His wife died a few years later, and Kolbein remarried, having three more children.

Today, most sources reckon Sjur Kolbeinsson Bjørgen (baptized July 5, 1790 - died January 3, 1875) as the start of the current lineage, as he was the first person to run the farm whilst also being born there. He was the youngest of Kolbeins three children born on the farm. Sjur was married twice. He had five children with his first wife, and seven children with his second wife.

Lineage
The lineage, beginning with Sjur Bjørgen, is as follows. The persons marked with "♠" were the ones who inherited and ran the farm.


 * ♠ Sjur Kolbeinsson Bjørgen (baptized July 5, 1790 - died January 3, 1875) m. Anna Amland (1779 - 14.01.1837)
 * Guro Bjørgen (17.10.1812 - 24.06.1846)
 * Sigrid Bjørgen (28.01.1815 - 20.05.1873)
 * Kolbein Sjursson Bjørgen (07.03.1817 - 07.04.1905)
 * Bjørne Bjørgen (03.07.1820 - 10.06.1858)
 * Britha Bjørgen (19.07.1823 - 01.08.1824)
 * m. Kari Skarveland (1814 - 14.08.1882)
 * Anna Bjørgen (01.10.1839 - ?)
 * Guri Bjørgen (30.01.1841 - 17.10.1916)
 * Thorbjørn Bjørgen (20.09.1842 - 25/26.01.1879) - killed in a shipwreck off the coast of Nordland during the night
 * Tørres Bjørgen aka. Tom Severtson (25.02.1845 - 20.03.1920)
 * ♠ Guro Bjørgen (12.03.1847 - 16.10.1919) m. Per Persson Skåro (27.04.1837 - 28.10.1908)
 * Kari Bjørgen
 * Sivert Bjørgen
 * Siri Karine Bjørgen
 * Kristine Bjørgen
 * Peder Bjørgen
 * Torbjørn Bjørgen
 * Tørres Bjørgen
 * Ola Bjørgen
 * Lars Bjørgen (16.02.1890 - 05.11.1968) m. Hilda Mehus (12.01.1899 - 12.12.1989)
 * Svein Bjørgen
 * Guro Bjørgen
 * Peder Ingard Bjørgen
 * Ingrid Bjørgen (06.08.1926 - ) m. Torlaug Baugstø (31.03.1935 - )
 * Leif Henning Bjørgen
 * Asta Bjørgen
 * Per Arild Bjørgen
 * Kjell Ivar Bjørgen (13.07.1958 - ) m. Anne Sofie Jensen (22.09.1961 - )
 * Christian Bjørgen (19.04.1990 - ) m. Malin Ersland (25.08.1990 - )
 * Andreas Bjørgen (25.08.1993 - )
 * Alexander Bjørgen (26.03.1998 - )
 * Astrid Bjørgen
 * Madela Bjørgen (06.07.1849 - ?)
 * Liva Bjørgen (07.09.1851 - 1936)
 * Severine Bjørgen (26.05.1860 - 21.08.1943)

Notable descendants

 * Tommy Fredvang - musician
 * Christina Fredvang - model