Re: Andersen family and blacksmiths
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In reply to:
Andersen family from Grimstad & Arendal
7/03/01
In 1865 census the family is on Heien in Ă˜stre Moland parish. That is in the eastern part of Arendal town.
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=arkivverket/ft1865/f60918&brukar=&loc=0&postnr=1065&spraak=e&previous=1http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=arkivverket/ft1865/f60918&brukar=&loc=0&postnr=1065&spraak=e&previous=1
The father Nils Andersen is a blacksmith from Aamli parish (north in Aust-Agder county). The mother, Nikoline Budin, is probably daughter of the blacksmith Olaus Bodin from Arendal. He is a widower in 1865:
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=n&filnamn=arkivverket/ft1865/f60903&variabel=0&postnr=1859&fulle=true&spraak=ehttp://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=n&filnamn=arkivverket/ft1865/f60903&variabel=0&postnr=1859&fulle=true&spraak=e
Olaus, b. 1796, is also the son of a blacksmith, Erich Boden, b. 1764.
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=arkivverket/ft1801/f10903&postnr=1037&spraak=ehttp://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=arkivverket/ft1801/f10903&postnr=1037&spraak=e
I have no connection to this family. This is only guesses I made out of information in the online censuses.