Lars Monsen (abt. 1784 - 1835)

Born about 17 Jun 1784 in Åstveit, Hordaland, Norway

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Sorine Aanonsdtr Huseby — married 1 Aug 1811 in Farsund, Farsund, Vest-Agder, Norway

Husband of Abel Kirstine Christiandtr Monsen — married 22 Oct 1824 in Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway

Descendants

Died 28 Nov 1835 at about age 51 in Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norge

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Biography

He was a sailor born in the Bergen area who fell for a girl in Farsund. Married her and moved to Kristiansand, the southernmost city in Norway.

According to Lee Munson's research Lars was a "vector" something like a town crier in America, a very respected position

from a letter by Lawrence Josiah Munson to his son in 1944

http://www.kittymunson.com/Munson/LJM.htm

Your Great-Great-Grandfather LARS MUNSON (spelt formerly Monsen) was born in Bergen, Norway about the year 1790. He moved to Christians Sand (Kristianssand S.) in 1814.

Notes from a distant cousin

"By the way, this Lars must have been quite a daring guy. When he married, we were in the midst of the Napoleon war in Europe.

Denmark-Norway, which was a united country those days, took party with the french and Napoleon after the British "flotilla-robbery" in Copenhagen in 1807, and they lost (1812-13).

1807 the Brits forced their way into the harbor in Copenhagen, set the city in fire and captured most of the warships that Denmark-Norway had. After Denmark-Norway joined the war, the Brits put a blockade on the coast line. Denmark was virtually bankrupt after this war, and was forced to give away Norway to Sweden. The Norwegian refused to be handled over to the Swedes as a parcel and claimed independence on 17th of May 1814.

But before that, and especially in 1811, when Lars was married in Farsund people were starving in Norway and smuggling grain to the country was a fearful business. I guess that was what your forefather were up to in 1811, when he was a deck-hand on board a ship with the risk of getting captured and sentence to imprisonment in England. The price of grain rise so hight that you had riots in Bergen. There the Germans (the Hansa confederation) still had a grip on the trade in Bergen, and wealthy people, were rounded up and ordinary people tried to force them to give away grain and and lower the prices. This happens in the streets of Bergen..."

Baptism

Baptism:

Date: 27 JUN 1784

Place: Hamre, Hordaland, Norway

Burial

Burial:

Date: 23 JUN 1822

Sources

birth: Hamre Kirkbook, Hordaland, Norway, A-8 p 104) marriage record in Farsund

http://blog.kittycooper.com/2013/03/we-have-found-our-ancestor-lars-monsen/

http://blog.kittycooper.com/2013/05/its-a-match-lars-monsens-ancestors-are-found/

• Frode Fyllingsnes and Kenneth Bratland. Åsane – i fortid og nåtid Bergen, Norway : Bodoni Forlag, 2007-2012. v. 5. Genealogies of Åstveit, Storøy (Storøen), Ervik, Nedre Selvik, Øvre Selvik, Jordal, Øvre-Eide and Eidsvåg. p 102 (h) top right

Notes

Note N209{geni:about_me} Y haplogroup R1b1b2a1a (aka R-U106 ) as per male line descendants

More info here: [1]

and here

[2]

possible birth record in Hamre parish just north of Bergen

[3]

from

Åsane Historical Society: baptized in the parish Hamre 1750-1815

Digital Inn, Digital Archives

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Kitty Munson for creating WikiTree profile Monsen-56 through the import of kitty10by2gen.ged on Jun 28, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Kitty and others.