Gabriel Jorisen Fyllingen Martha Bastesdatter Reigstad

Baste Gabrielsen Fyllingen   Ole Gabrielsen Fyllingen Martha Nilsen

Christian M. Olsen, Sr.   Nicholas G. Olsen Caroline Johnson   Martha   Nils Olsen   Lina

Ole   John N.   Caroline William X. Wolfrath   Nicholas

Ernest Willvonseder Dorathy

Giovanni Greto Lisa   Ernest

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• Gabriel Jorisen Fyllingen, last name taken from the farm (Fyllingen) where he lived after 1819. Before 1819, Gabriel Jorisen took the name Hopsdal, his residence at that time (??). Married twice: [first] in 1811 to Anna Askildsdatter Hopsdal (1786-1813), and [second] in November 1813 to Martha Bastesdatter Reigstad (1784-after 1849). There is disagreement over whether the middle name should be Jorisen (as seems clearly written by Christian Olsen) or the more Norwegian "Torisen".
• Baste Gabrielsen Fyllingen, born 1814, living in 1875. From what is written by Christian Olsen, Baste Gabrielsen Fyllingen had a son Basteson Fyllingen (Bastian) born 11 March 1890 who lived in Hudson, South Dakota.
• Basteson Fyllingen (Bastian), born 11 March 1890, lived in Hudson, South Dakota, married to Mollie Johannesdatter Rommersheim, born 1891. This couple has a son Herbert (born 1922) who lives in Lennox, South Dakota. Mollie is a cousin to Albert Vaksdal, father of Edvard Vaksdal.
• Ole Gabrielsen Fyllingen, born 1818, married Martha Nilsen, died 1913 age 95½. Photo of Martha Nilsen. The family tree drawn by Christian M. Olsen also states (near center): "Ole Gabrielson Fyllingen d.e. (the elder) born 1816, lived at Bulandet Askvoll. Son Gabriel Olsen worked at H.C. Krohn". It is not clear whether there were two people named "Ole Gabrielsen Fyllingen" (born 1816 and 1818) or whether there was just one, with uncertainty on the birth date.
• Martha Nilsen. Her name is known from the death certificate of Christian M. Olsen (elder) kept by Joan Olsen of Galway, New York. This death certificate relates: "Name of father: Gabriel Olsen born in Norway" (Shirley Olsen feels that this is Ole Gabrielsen Fyllingen 1818-1913) "Mothers NAME-- Martha Nilsen, born Norway." Photo of Martha Nilsen
• Gabriel Olsen, no data. However, in the tree created by Christian M. Olsen (Jr, born 1896), he has written (just above his own name) a comment in Norwegian which is translated as : Ole Gabrielsen Fyllingen the elder born 1816, lived at Bulandet Askvoll. Son Gabriel Olsen worked at H C Krohn. With the death certificate for Christian Olsen (Sr), this would seem to imply that a generation is missing from the above tree.
• H.C. Krohn, a grocery company in Bergen, Norway
• Nicholas Gabriel Olsen, born in Bergen (Norway) before 1923
• Christian M. Olsen Sr., born 1-2-1868 in Bergen, Norway, married Thora Andrea Hansen, this couple having 4 children. From death certificate, died 11-12-1914 (11 December 1914) in Bronx, New York City
• Thora Andrea Hansen born 29 July 1868 in Bergen, Norway died 28 March 1963. Thora's father was Anders Hansen, and her mother was Thora Davidsdotter. The family probably lived in Dixelmand, Bergen, Norway.
• Martha Olsen, married E. Olsen, having 3 children: Edward, Anna, and Moroni. Moroni Olsen became somewhat of a celebrity, though it appears he did not marry or have children. A google search will produce thousands of references to his life as an actor, including the biography from which these excerpts were taken: Moroni Olsen, born 27 June 1889 in Ogden, Utah, tall, piercing-eyed actor Moroni Olsen learned how to entertain audiences as a Chautaqua tent-show performer. In the 1920s, he organized the Moroni Olsen Players, one of the most prestigious touring stock companies. After several successful seasons, on Broadway, Olsen came to films in the role of Porthos in the 1935 version of the Three Musketeers. Thanks to his aristocratic bearing and classically trained voice, Olsen was often called upon to play famous historical personages: he was Buffalo Bill in Annie Oakley (1935), Robert E. Lee in Santa Fe Trail (1940), and Sam Houston in Lone Star (1952).
• Nils Olsen, married Anna Iversen, having 4 children: Gudrun, Anna, Nils, and Sigfrid. Nils married Tordis Egeland, born 1911 in England), having 3 children: Elin (b. 27 April 1937, living in Bergen), Tordis Karin (b. 8 September 1940, living near Oslo), and Nils Birger (b. 22 January 1947, living near Oslo)
• Amalia Olsen, "spinster", died in Norway
• Lina Olsen, married Ingebrigt Hansen, having no children; died in New York
• Caroline Johnson, buried in cemetery in Edgewater (NJ); was adopted and grew up in Minnesota
• John Nicholas Olsen, born 6 Jan 1885 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA (from Marilyn Baurle), died Jan 1954 in Leonia (NJ)
• Ole X. Olsen, born about 1883. Ole married Bertha X. and had children. More data on Ole will be written here when it becomes available. Ole died in Florida
• Caroline X. Olsen, born about 1887, married William Wolfrath, had a daughter Dorathy (Dotsy), died in Florida
• Dorathy Wolfrath, born 9 Nov 1923, married Ernest Willvonseder; their children are Ernest (Jr) and Lisa, and this family lives in New York, as of 2005. Ernest (Sr.) had one sister (Julia) who married a Mr. Nelson, and this couple had at least one child, Pamela Nelson. This information courtesy of Pamela Nelson by email.