SEVENTH GENERATION

98. Jacob* ANDERSEN Häggström ⁽²⁹²⁾ was born about Aug 1781 in Borseth gård #?, Norway. He Census Info "Jacob Heptrum;" 19yo illegitimate son of Grete Heptrum at "Qvitnæs" in 1801 in Kvitnes gård, Hadsel, Vesterålen, Nordland, Norway. He died on 15 May 1843 in Bremnæs gård #25, Sortland, Nordland, Norway. Jacob was said to be 66 when he died. He was buried on 25 Jun 1843 in Sortland, Vesterålen, Nordland, Norway. Hegstrom is alternately spelled Hexstrom, Hekstrom and Hagstrom. According to Johan Borgos <jb@nndata.no> the name is "obviously" Swedish and should be spelled Häggström. He was married to Maren* CHRISTENSDATTER Bremnes on 28 Oct 1815 in Sortland, Vesterålen, Nordland, Norway. Marriage for widower Jacob Andersen HEGSTROM and Maren KRISTENSDATTER, both of Bremnes. Both had been vaccinated. (They had to prove they had been vaccinated against smallpox in order to be married.)

99. Maren* CHRISTENSDATTER Bremnes ⁽²⁹³⁾ was born about Apr 1791 in Bremnæs gård #25, Sortland, Nordland, Norway. She was baptised on 21 Apr 1791. Viridium 1791.
She appeared on the census in 1801 in Bremnæs gård #25, Sortland, Nordland, Norway. Children were:

i. Anders Andreas Brønlund JACOBSEN was born about Jun 1816 in Bremnæs gård #25, Sortland, Nordland, Norway. He was christened on 16 Jun 1816 in Sortland, Vesterålen, Nordland, Norway. He died on 2 Dec 1843 in Sortland, Vesterålen, Nordland, Norway. He was buried on 5 May 1844 in Sortland, Vesterålen, Nordland, Norway. Up in the Arctic Circle where Sortland is the ground was too hard for burials in the winter, so the bodies were kept for months in ice until burials could be done. He was Never married, no issue..
ii. Magrethe Chierstine Brønlund JACOBSDATTER was born about Aug 1818 in Bremnæs gård #25, Sortland, Nordland, Norway. She was christened on 30 Aug 1818 in Sortland, Vesterålen, Nordland, Norway. She died on 2 Jul 1832 in Sortland, Vesterålen, Nordland, Norway. She was buried on 2 Sep 1832 in Sortland, Vesterålen, Nordland, Norway.
iii. Christen Martinus JACOBSEN was born on 17 Jul 1820 in Bremnæs gård #25, Sortland, Nordland, Norway. He Baptised at Home on 17 Jul 1820 in Bremnæs gård #25, Sortland, Nordland, Norway. Probably died young; no confirmation or further mention of him has been found.
iv. Pernille Elisabeth Tode JACOBSDATTER was born on 1 Aug 1822 in Bremnæs gård #25, Sortland, Nordland, Norway. She Baptised at Home on 6 Aug 1822 in Bremnæs gård #25, Sortland, Nordland, Norway. This baptism was confirmed in the church on the 13th Sunday after Trinity, which was 01Sep1822. First name given as Peternille. She was confirmed in 1838 in Sortland, Vesterålen, Nordland, Norway. She Census Info Pernila E Jacobsdatter, 44yo in 1865 in Kjæringnæsdalen, Sortland, Vesterålen, Nordland, Norway. She Census Info Enke, Tjenestepige for Kristen Ellingsen and family in 1875 in Kjæringnæsdalen, Sortland, Vesterålen, Nordland, Norway.
v. Jens Ole Hasselberg JACOBSEN was born on 26 Mar 1825 in Bremnæs gård #25, Sortland, Nordland, Norway. He Baptised at Home on 30 Mar 1825 in Bremnæs gård #25, Sortland, Nordland, Norway. This baptism was confirmed in church 3rd Sunday after Easter, which was 24Apr1825. He died on 6 Dec 1838 in Bremnæs gård #25, Sortland, Nordland, Norway. He was buried on 2 Jun 1839 in Sortland, Vesterålen, Nordland, Norway. Hasselberg is another notable family in the area. Many people would have names like Hasselberg and Brønlund included in their children's names just for prestige, so the "assumption" that anyone in the family was descended from the Hasselbergs or Brønlund's still has to be proven. There is a Jens Hasselberg born 1823 who was a Føderaadsmand at Stranden in 1900; living with this Jens' niece Emilie Andreasdatter and family.
49 vi. Ingeborg Anna* JACOBSDATTER Holm.
vii. Andreas Martinus Gregor JACOBSEN was born on 30 Jun 1834 in Bremnæs gård #25, Sortland, Nordland, Norway. He Census Info 31yo Gårdbruger og Fisker in 1865 in Strængelvåg, Øksnes, Vesterålen, Nordland, Norway. He Census Info Andreas Jakobsen; Gårdbruger Leilænding og Fisker; born 1831, Sortlands in 1875 in Strængelvåg, Øksnes, Vesterålen, Nordland, Norway.

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