Timeline
- Mar 13, 1869Born Kjemhus, Veggli, Rollag, Buskerud, Norway
- Apr 18, 1869Christened Veggli, Rollag, Buskerud, Norway
- 1869Lived Buskerud, Norway
- 1869Lived Rollag, Buskerud, Norway
- 1875Lived Kjemhus, Veggli, Rollag, Buskerud, Norway source
- May 27, 1887Emigrated ChristianiaChristiania Norway's capital, spelled Kristiania from the late 1800s and renamed Oslo in 1925. Emigrants from eastern Norway sailed from its harbor, and the city's police kept a register of them as they left. All the words (Oslo), Norway, Aboard the Rollo from Christiania. source
- Jun 14, 1887Arrived Quebec, Quebec, Canada, Arrived aboard Toronto (Dominion Line) with the Kjemhus family, from Liverpool 3 June via Belfast 4 June; ticket destination Montevideo, Minnesota. source
- Aug 14, 1907Died Sandnes Township, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota, United States source
- 1907Buried Nore NumedahlNumedahl A Norwegian farming community in Cavalier County, North Dakota, named by its settlers after Numedal, the valley in Norway. Tollef Kjemhus farmed there, and his grandson Pete spent boyhood summers on his farm. Numedal and Numedahl → Church, Cavalier, Dakota Territory, United States source
Family
- Parents
- Halvor Steinarsen Kjemhus 1835–1888
Kjersti Tollevsdatter b. 1844 - Siblings
- Tollef Halvorsen Kjemhus 1871–1963
Kari Halvorsdtr Kjemhus 1878–1964
Tosten Kjemhus 1883–1943
Peder Halvorson Kjemhus 1887–1936 - Farms
- Kjemhus born here, lived here
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Sources
- Census · 18751875 census — Norway
- Emigration · May 27, 1887Rollag ministerialbok I11 — Halvor Stenersen Kjemhus household, departures1887, p225
- Emigration · May 27, 1887Oslo police emigrant protocol14 (1887–1888) — Halvor Stenersen household, p79
- Emigration · May 27, 1887Christiania emigrant protocol 14 — Kjemhus family, Rollo departure, 27 May 1887. National Archives of Norway ↗
- Arrival · Jun 14, 1887Canada passenger lists — Toronto, Liverpool to Quebec, 14 June 1887, Kjemhus family. Ancestry ↗ (account needed)
- Burial · 1907Big Pembina Lutheran death and burial register — Steiner H. Kjemhus, August 1907. Ancestry ↗ (account needed)
- United States land tract book — Dakota Territory volume 86, Kjemhus entries, T164N R58W. FamilySearch ↗
- Cavalier County naturalization — Stener H. Kjemhus, 31 March 1899, p. 97. Ancestry ↗ (account needed)
Leads, from other researchers’ trees:
- FamilySearch Family Tree on MyHeritage (account needed)