Soren Hansen SORENSEN

                   Last change:  7 Jul 1994

Her name could also have been Helna Sorensdtr. Oderud

She married Mapnus (last name?) - there were no children of the marriage.
She came to U.S.A. and lived in Chicago, Ill.

Witnesses at her Baptism:

Marie Hansdtr. - Hollerud
Siri Hansdtr.  - Bjorkerud
Karl Hansen    - Hollerud
Krestian Hansen- Hollerud
Kristen Hansen - Bjorkerud

Source:  Film # 123,956
           Hole Parish Records
                  

                   Last change: 31 Dec 1994

Hans Sorensen of (Oderud) is my grandmother Maren Sorensdtr Nohre's brother.  He took over Oderud farm in 1868.

This info taken from a tombstone in Modum, Norway

Witnesses:
Karoline Hansdtr.  - Bjerkrud
Sigrid Hansdtr.    - Bjerkrud
Kristian Hansen    - Hollerud
Ole Hansen         - Hollerud

Source:  Film # 123,956
           Hole Parish
                  

                   Last change:  8 Dec 1994

This is my Aunt Jenny who lived in Chicago, Ill.  She brought my father Knut A. Nohre and his cousin Petrine Oderud (Patsy), to America. She was married twice.  The second husband was of Jewish German decent.

%He is supposed to have lost all her money.

Witnesses to her baptism:
Ole Hansen of Hollerud - her mother's brother
Karl Hansen of Hollerud - "   "         "
Kristen Hansen of Bjerkerud - her father's brother
Maren (Fredrikhesd) - Karl's wife

NOTE:
Hole Parish - Film #123,956 from the Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.
                  

                   Last change:  4 Aug 1996
y her grand daughter Maren Elizabeth Nohre Mason.

Maren was said to have a sense of humor.  She painted her future husband's face with ashes from the hearth at the summer cabin in the mountains where she was staying tending the cows for the summer.  Anders was a sheriff who was tracking a criminal across the mountain.  He had stopped and asked to rest a while.  It was while he was asleep that she fixed his face.

Maren was confronted with a bear either at the summer cabin or at the farm.
The story is told "she took off her petticoat and yelled while she shook it at the bear scaring him away".

Maren Sofie Sorensen's mother died one week after she was born. She was raised from the age of 1 week by her father's brother and sister, Uncle Kristian and Aunt Siri, on the Bjorkerud farm, neither of them ever married. She was raised Lutheran.
   She would have the Lutheran priest into her home for coffee and a visit quite often.  She was curious about religion.

Her first cousin was Sofie Thomasdtr. who died of TB along with her husband. Grandma Maren Sofie Sorensdtr. Nohre took her cousin's 5 year old daughter, Sigrid, and raised her as her own child.  Sigrid's brother, Kristian, went to live with Astrid Svendby's parents.

I was told Maren had blond hair, was good looking, strict but a good heart.
It was difficult to be a widow at that time.
   She was about 170-175 cm tall 175cm = 5'9".

NOTE: Source notes from a book from Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City, Utah: Krodsherad Volumn I, by Andreas Morch call number  948.25/K2 D2M.  Also personal records and knowledge of Maren Elizabeth Nohre Mason.