Gilborn from Norway
Several sources indicate a Gilborn family originating in Norway:
- 25 year old Ole Gilburn, born in Norway, on the muster list of 'F' Company of the 1st Regiment of the Minnesota Volunteers during the Civil War (1861);
- The United States censuses from 1910 to 1940 show a Gilborn family in Williams County, North Dakota, with the head of the family, Lars Gilborn, giving his birthplace as Norway;
- "Under Eight Flags (Vol.2)", published by the Milk River Historical Society describes (p.855) the lives of Nels and Agnes Gilborn which begins:
Nels Gilborn was born in Voss, Norway. As a young man he and three of his brothers came to Canada in 1911. ... Nels stayed in Canada but his brothers went to the United States..."
Searching through the same birth register revealed a number of other children born to the parents: Ole (No.118) in 1876; Britha (No. 36) in 1878; Ammund (No. 23) in 1887; and (in the subsequent register) Ivar (No. 2) in 1890. The Digital Archive site also has transcriptions of some of the Norwegian censuses, and the 1900 census shows Amund Gilbaarne with wife Ingerid Olsdatter and children Lars, born 1884; Amund, born 1886; and Ivar, born 1890, who were living in Voss on a farm called Gilbaarene. It would appear that this is the source of their surname, (and hence they will not link to any of the other Gilborn families on these pages.) There is a detailed discussion of this family on the Amundson/Amundsen forum at www.norwayheritage.com, and identifies Ole Amundson of Williams, North Dakota, who had been born in Voss, Norway in 1877, as the Ole born to Amund Jorgensen and Ingerid Olsdatter.
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