Gimness · The Family · The People
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The first generation
Four of the oldest couples the records reach.
The path
The Norwegian parishes
The path
William Hoar
The Norwegian line
Johannes Olsen & Gunhild Gundersdatter
Placed here as the generation above Ole Johannessen. His patronymic names a father Johannes; his baptism (19 June 1835, Øre/Tingvoll) is listed among the records and is the register that would name his parents.
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A Gunhild death dated 7 October 1903 is listed among records not yet read onto this page; it is not identified here as this Gunhild.
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The Norwegian line
Endre Justesen & Marit Olsdatter
Placed here as the generation above Guri Endresdatter. Her patronymic names a father Endre; her baptism (26 May 1839, Grytten) is listed among the records and is the register that would name her parents.
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The Norwegian line
Peder Tronsen & Marith Halvorsdatter
Named on the baptism of Josef Carl Mathias — Carl Tornes — 6 April 1856 at Vågøy: parents Peder Tronsen and Marith Halvorsdatter of Lovran. Fræna ministerialbok 565A02, p. 31, entry 8.
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The San Francisco line
William Hoar & Serrena Hyde
Bennett’s parents, named in his 1847 Massachusetts birth record. William was a baker — in San Francisco by 1852, dead there in 1871. Serrena appears in exactly that one document. No bridge to the colonial Hoars has been built on a surname alone.
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