Birgitte Olsdatter

Born [date unknown] in Rogaland, Norway

Wife of Njell Steinsen — married [date unknown] in Rogaland, Norway

Descendants

Died after 1633 in Skjelsnes, Sjernarøy, Rogaland, Norway

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Biography

Birgitte Olsdotter was married to Njell Steinson, and lived at Jelsa farm in Jelsa, Rogaland, from about 1603 onwards.^[1] Their children were:

• Stein, married to Gyrid Ormsdotter Bokn, lived at Tysseland in Sand^[1]
• Olav, married to Åsa Trulsdotter Skjelsnes, lived at Skjelsnes on Sjernarøy^[1]

Siri Nielsdatter, the wife of Laurits Lilledal in Etne, had allodial rights to a share of Jelsa and may have been their daughter.^[1]

After Njell's death about 1614, Birgitte lived at Jelsa; 26 Nov 1616, Njell's nephew Stein, the son of his elder brother Siver, claimed and was granted the rights to the farm.^[1] Birgitte moved to Foldøy, where she lived until about 1621; she then married Sevat Fora and moved to Fora, Sjernarøy.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Jelsa I, p. 534.

• Ola Foldøy. Jelsa I: Gards- og Ættesoga. Suldal kommune, 1967. Available to Norwegian IPs at Nasjonalbiblioteket

This person was NOT the daughter of https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rnsen-137 Olsen, Trygve Eeg & Mydland-Barstad, JoAnne: ” Fortid og folk på Mydland i Sokndal kommune”, 2004, p. 172 and http://www.wisted.net/ under Mydland indre #20 agree that there was only ONE Birgitte/Berte (same name), and that she was born about 1640 and married to Knut Torkelson Heskestad at Kolestrand.