Helene / Erik Pettersen
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Helene / Erik Pettersen
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The parents of Gusta Marie was Helene Olsdatter and Erik Pettersen. Erik was born 16. June, 1828, and died 12. april 1915. He was the son of Petter Ingebretsen and Zerina (Sørine) Olsdatter. Zerina had parents Erica Sørensdtr and Ole Olsen. Zerina grew up on Hafslund Noble Seat Farm (just outside Sarpsborg) who had many working people from different parts of the country.
Helene Olsdatter and Erik Pettersen (photos from Per Øystein Andersen)
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Erik Pettersen's children
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Familien Erik Pettersen og kone Helene og barn meldte utflytting fra Gurihullet i Skjeberg til Trosvikstranden i Glemmen 7. oktober 1862. Den 12. mai 1865 meldte de innflytting til Larvik fra Fredrikstad (Glemmen). Oppgitt bosted i Larvik: Thorstrand, «det lille Skalberg-huset». Den 7. mai 1871 meldte de utflytting fra Larvik til Sandøkedal (=Sannikedal =Kragerø). Senere flyttet familien tilbake til Larvik (før 1880). Alle barna nevnt ovenfor, og som fikk leve, vokste opp sammen og Helene var mor for alle (brev som er bevart viser dette). Erik bodde ikke sammen med Helene på slutten. Hun bodde hos datteren Gusta og døde der i 1899, mens Erik bodde på Kongsberg og døde der i 1915 uten særlig kontakt med familien. Erik var sagmester, men i seinere år tømmeroppkjøper (Hans Andersen).
According to the census of 1885 Erik Pettersen was "Forman at Bugge Co" (see below). Lumber-company Bugge & Co was founded by Johan Fredrik and Niels Magnus Bugge, but it was really their father, Alexander Bugge (1790-1824), who started in the timber trade. They handled in particular "Skibning af Bjælker and Jüffers at Holland and Hanover", and was, in return, supplied with fats and pottery for sale in the city. When Niels Magnus Bugge died in 1869, the company was taken over by Peter Bredsdorff and Theodor Singdahlsen. They gathered the whole business around the steam saw which came into operation on the old Reipbane area in Torstrand 1864 ("Bugge saw"). In 1878 the company was taken over by Jon Abrahamsen. The Bugge saw was then equipped with two ascending saws, one single and two double circular saws and circular knives as well as a racing saw. This was the working place for Erik Pettersen, as sawmaster and chairman. Read more about the Bugge saw here [2]
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Petter Ingebretsen was born 1793
Erik Pettersen was born 16. June and baptized 10. August 1828 in the Tangen under the Hafslund, Skjeberg.
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From the census of Hafslund Noble Seat Farm, 1801
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From Wikipedia:
Hafslund company has been the starting point for industrial activities – first related to the agriculture and forestry with the water saws in Sarpsfossen and the lumber trade. Then, on the electricity. A network of farms and husmannsplasser (farmers on leased land) with farmers and workers has through the centuries provided the manor with goods and services. Hafslund was from the last half of the 1600s, a self-contained unit. Timber from private forests were carved on their own saws of its own people and shipped on its own keel. From the middle of the 1700s Hafslund was a highly developed society with its own school and fattigvesen (poverty aid). The technological development that led to that could be utilized for the production of electricity, the basis for the industrial company Hafslund, established in 1898.
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Letter from Erik Pettersen
We assume that the letter is written by Erik Pettersen b. 16/6-1828 in Skjeberg. He had just turned 50 years. He writes the letter in Larvik to "dear kids", and the children have to stay somewhere other than in Larvik. Erik lives probably in Larvik, since he writes that he "came home at 6 today".
Maybe the addressee ("Baren") are Anne Sophie and Ole Petter b. 1854 and 1856 from Erik's first marriage, and they live probably in Kragerø.
Erik would like to thank for the "New dress", which probably refer to the new suit which "the children" have bought for him (to 50 years-celebration?). Among "the children" is possibly also Ole Kristian Hansen as Erik's wife Helene was her aunt and that Ole Kristian called "mother" (and Erik "father"). They were his foster parents?
"Bernhard" that Erik has "bought clothes to" was the youngest brother of Gusta Marie; Erik and Helenes youngest kid, born approx. 1865. "Anders and Abel" are unknown to me.
(comment Hans Andersen)
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This letter is dated 26. October, possibly in 1878. The question is, who is it meant for? Anne Sophie, Gusta or maybe a sister of Ole Kristian Hansen ("Ole Chr"). Kathrine is unknown.
It is evident that Erik Pettersen ever was on the move. "Your mother 'tags on' and is quarrelsome now it is cold." Must surely mean that she is "ailing". The mother is Helene?
If "kjere daughter" is in Horten in the work, she can hardly be Gusta, for she was born in 1862, but....
Erik was not very communicative
(comment Hans Andersen)
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Gusta Maries ancestors on the maternal
Gusta Marie's mother was Helene Olsdatter born in 1828, in Varteig at Sarpsborg, Østfold. She was the daughter of Ole Helgesen Varteig and Marthe Olsdatter.
Helene is born 17. January 1828
... and married to Enkemand Sagmester (widower, saw master) Erik Petersen 24/11-1859, Tangen (Guriholtet) in Vartheig.
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From the census of 1885, Larvik. Erik was chairman of Bugge Co. Gusta Marie and Hans Jørgen was newly married and living in the 2. floor with Helene and Erik. This was probably Helgesens gate 7.
Haugianismens rot
Helene Olsdtr var altså datter av Ole Helgesen Varteig og Marthe Olsdtr fra Varteig ved Sarpsborg. Begge var født på slutten av 1700-tallet. Noen få km fra Varteig ble den kjente gründeren, predikanten og forfatter Hans Nielsen Hauge født; nemlig på Rolvsøy ved Sarpsborg. Hans Nielsen Hauge fikk sitt åndelige gjennombrudd og startet sin virksomhet i 1796, året før Ole Helgesen ble født. Det er vanskelig å tenke seg at Helenes familie (hennes foreldre/besteforeldre) ikke, på et eller annet vis, ble påvirket av Hauges forkynnelse. Hauge virksomhet startet nemlig med å holde samlinger i hjemmene i sin egen bygd og i nabosognene. og «han merket hvordan samtalene og forkynnelsen påvirket folk og skapte en åndelig lengsel hos mange». Men om Helenes familie var blant dem, blir bare en ikke usannsynlig spekulasjon.
«Haugianerne» – maleri av Adolph Tidemand 1848. Frimerke fra 1971
Hvem var egentlig Hans Nielsen Hauge?
Historikeren Karsten Alnæs har sagt at det er to personer som i stor grad har forandret Norge – Olav den Hellige og Hans Nielsen Hauge. Mange er sikkert uenig i det, men det viser at Hans Nielsen Hauge var en betydelig person for utviklingen til dagens Norge. De fleste forbinder Hans Nielsen Hauge med åndelig vekkelse. Og det er ikke feil; han ble opphavsmann til den mest omfattende religiøse fornyelse noensinne.
Men Hans Nielsen Hauge var ikke bare lekpredikant, han bygde et gründernettverk som sto for etableringen av en lang rekke virksomheter. Totalt var Hauge involvert i nærmere 150 nyetableringer tidlig på 1800-tallet. I tillegg kommer alle de nye bedriftene han inspirerte andre til å starte.
Analyser gjort av historikerne Fritz Hodne og Ola Grytten ved Norges Handelshøyskole indikerer at Hauge og haugianerne skapte et sted mellom 7000 og 8000 arbeidsplasser i Norge i perioden fra 1801 til 1828. Totalbefolkningen var da på bare ca. 900.000 mennesker. Disse virksomhetene var over gjennomsnittet lønnsomme sammenlignet med datidens konkurrenter.
Hva var hemmeligheten bak en slik suksess? Det grunnleggende prinsippet bak haugianernes kall var husholdertanken: Alle finansielle og menneskelige ressurser er gitt av Gud og skal forvaltes til det beste for medmennesker og samfunn, og til Guds ære.
Reference
Magne Supphellen & Truls Liland, Aftenposten 14.papril 2021
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