This is very difficult without a farm name. Wait... actually Fredrikstad is a city and municipality of Østfold county in Norway. Ahh, seems like Fredrikstad is also a parish in this county. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Fredrikstad is a great website on Fredrikstad's history with sourced information too which was surprising.
Also interesting is … Østfold county didn't begin until 1918, the county before that was Smålenene county!
Oh my goodness - the library in ND has a whole bunch of Fredrikstad farm books... you may be far from there, but it's something to work with:
Dehli, M. |
Fredrikstad bys historie, v. 1 |
1960 |
DL596.F83 D43 |
General |
1567-1767 |
Dehli, M. |
Fredrikstad bys historie, v. 2 |
1964 |
DL596.F83 D43 |
General |
1767-1860 |
Dehli, M. |
Fredrikstad bys historie, v. 3 |
1973 |
DL596.F83 D43 |
General |
1860-1914 |
Dehli, M. |
Fredrikstad bys historie, v. 4 |
1987 |
DL596.F83 D43 |
General |
1914-1940 |
Dehli, M. |
Fredrikstad bys historie, v. 5 |
1993 |
DL596.F83 D43 |
General |
1940-1963 |
De Figueiredo, I. |
Fredrikstad bys historie, v. 6 |
1999 |
DL596.F83 D43 |
General |
1964-1993 |
Church Records[edit source]
I had to cut out my characters so check this out:https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Fredrikstad_Parish,_Østfold,_Norway_Genealogy
Glemmen farm book is found.. Glemmen wasn't separated until 1883, so if he was born in 1880 he might be in there.
Thowsen, Elsa: Glemmen bygdebok: En bygd blir til by. Utgitt av Glemmen Kommune 1962 (Your local library may have it or do an inter-library loan) I'm sure anyone can help you translate it.
23 Aasgaard 27 Allerød 37 Alshus 13 Ambjørnrød
22 Bjølstad 15 Bjørnerød 31 Bjørnevaagen 20 Bjøruld-Ødegaarden 11 Brønnerød
36 Elve 25 Enhus 16 Evenrød
29 Femdal 39 Fuglevik 36 Futerød
2 Glemminge vestre 12 Gluppe 18 Gunnerød
38 Holme 26 Holte
10 Jørnerød
7 Kirkeleie 33 Kjøkøen 9 Kneple
8 Lahelle 6 Lisleby 32 Lunde
8 Nygaard 3 Nøkleby vestre
30 Randholmen 24 Rød nordre
17 Skaarød 40 Smertu 21 Spetalen 28 Straalsund
5 Torp 34 Troldalen 10 Trosvik
19 Veum nordre
35 Ødegaarden
Hope this helps a little.. it's a start. I actually didn't know any Norwegian, but I've taught myself a bit just regarding the family tree terminology, and of course I have a great Norwegian genealogist who can always back me up. I found a great Norwegian-English dictionary at www.rollroots.com/norwegian-english.htm. It lists abbreviation and a lot of words google translate or other dictionaries don't mention.
It's pretty likely his father's name was Jon since his last name is Johnson.
Ancestry.com is tricky, because most of them it isn't reliable. I actually relied on it and had a whole different family than the family that actually belonged to me.