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BENRUD FAMILY HISTORY
In Eidsvoll, Norway, about 40 miles northeast of Oslo, there is a farm called "Vestgarn Aas", attached to which is a smaller tract, of about 8 acres, known as "Benerud". Until the late 1800's the latter was a husmannsplass, where the husmann who lived there with his family was a tenant farmer who paid his rent by working part-time for the landlord.
In 1762 CHRISTOPHER TORGERSON, a peddler and itinerant teacher who was the son
of TORGER CHRISTOFFERSEN PRESTEBAKKEN and MARTE LARSDATTER, married MARGARETE
PEDERSDATTER and came to be husmann at Benerud. They had two sons, Peder
Christoffersen and JON CHRISTOFFERSEN, and Peder followed his father as husmann. He maried Kari Olsdatter and they had two daughters. Kari died in 1806, and
Peder later married BERTHE POULSDATTER, who had come to the farm called "Siggerud"
from Toten with her parents, POUL JENSEN (son of JENS RASMUSSEN RØISE and KARI
NILSDATTER ENGE) and ELI TORCHILDSDATTER NARUM. Peder and BERTHE had two
daughters: Pauline (1814-1824) and Christiane, who lived to marry Ole Andreasen
Blikkelsrud; they were the recipients of the letters written by the Beneruds
from America back to Norway in 1875 and 1882.
In 1761 OLA ANDERSEN HOFSLØKKEN and KARI PEDERSDATTER had come from Toten,
about 60 miles further north, and purchased Vestgam Aas and moved there. Among
their children were Kari Olsdatter, Anders Olsen, and PETTER OLSEN. OLA died in
1788, and KARI married Ole Guttormsen, from Trysil, who took over operation of
the farm. It was Kari who was the first wife of Peder Christoffersen Benerud;
Anders became operator of Vestgam Aas; and after the death of Peder
Christoffersen, PETTER married his widow, BERTHE POULSDATTER, and became husmann
at Benerud, therefore known as PETTER OLSEN BENERUD. PETTER AND BERTHE had three
children: PEDER PETTERSEN (1818-1914), Andreas Pettersen (1826-1841), and Elen
Pauline Pettersdatter (1828-1849). JON CHRISTOFFERSEN, second son of CHRISTOFFER
TORGERSEN BENERUD, married JOHANNE IVERSDATTER. In 1810, JON purchased
Overbakken, which had been another husmannsplass attached to Vestgam Aas, but in
1813 he sold it and stayed on as husmann. Their ANNE SOFFIE JONSDATTER was born
in 1816, and in 1829 she moved with JON and JOHANNE and her sister Margarethe to
the farm Østby. There Jon operated the part known as Arstun Østby until retiring
in 1832; then they continued to live at Østby with Margarethe and her husband
Johannes Østby, son of Nils Jonsen Østby and Ingeborg Poulsdatter, sister of
BERTHE POULSDATTER.
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