Holga Emma
(Holga)
Svendsen
aka Christensen
Born in Oslo, Norway
Ancestors 
Daughter of Fredrik August Svendsen
and Emilie Randine Torkildsen
Sister of
Svend Fredrik Svendsen, Thomas Fredrik (Svendsen) Swensen, Johanne Lovise Svendsen, Ingeborg Marie Svendsen and Thora Alice Svendsen
Wife of
Theodore Marinius Christensen
— married
16 Mar 1902 (to before 17 May 1923) in Oslo, Norway
Died after
after age 28
in Norway
Profile last modified
| Created 15 Jul 2019
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Biography
Holga Emma was born in Norway in 1882, the daughter of Fredrik August Svendsen and Emilie Randine Torkildsen.[1][2] She married Theodore Marinius Christensen 16 Mar 1902 in Oslo.[3] She and Theodore moved to Chicago briefly,[4] but Holga and their children returned to Norway between the birth of their son, Roy Christensen[5] and Holga and the children's appearance with her mother and sisters in the 1910 Census in Kristiania.[6] That census is the last record found of Holga so far.
Sources
- ↑ https://www.digitalarkivet.no/view/255/pd00000014455814
- ↑ https://www.digitalarkivet.no/census/person/pf01053257085863
- ↑ https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/570/599
- ↑ https://www.digitalarkivet.no/view/8/pe00000000575490
- ↑ "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQRN-7JF : 18 May 2016), Roy William Christensen, 04 Feb 1907; Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, reference/certificate 2234, Cook County Clerk, Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1,288,130.
- ↑ https://www.digitalarkivet.no/census/person/pf01036392170923
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Holga by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Holga:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Holga by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Holga:
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~3.12%
Leslie Torkelson
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch VB509385C1 [compare], Ancestry member lesterina
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~3.12%
Tania (Torkelson) Hosmer :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch KJ4261876 [compare], Ancestry member mzzhoz
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Holga is 19 degrees from Maria Mitchell, 29 degrees from Carl Sagan, 26 degrees from Tycho Brahe, 34 degrees from Nicholaus Copernicus, 29 degrees from Eise Eisinga, 25 degrees from Caroline Lucretia Herschel, 28 degrees from Thomas Maclear, 19 degrees from Simon Newcomb, 22 degrees from Isaac Newton, 29 degrees from Pierre Henri Puiseux, 25 degrees from Beatrice Tinsley and 18 degrees from Edith Woodward on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
"Holga goes with her three children to Norway to visit her family (mother). How long she had planned to stay I do not know. She had the tickets for the return to Chicago. According to plan she had hired a nanny to go with them.
When the day for their return comes closer, Roy takes ill, a bad infection in one ear. He is hospitalised and does not get well in time for the departure. So the only one that goes over by the S/S United States on that date is the nanny.
Roy gets better and new crossing is planned and booked, when Theodore - this time - asks Holga to postpone the departure, he had fallen off a tram-car and was injured, wanted to be fit again before they came back. Obviously the injuries were not lifethreatening. (Later knowing what happened, we presume this may have been «made up».)
Again weeks pass, when the shocking news come that he asks them to remain in Norway. Theodore and the nanny had fallen for each other and he wanted a divorce.
He later had two daughters with his new wife. He kept in touch with his family in Norway by letters and postcards (I still have a few which he sent to my father). Roy remembered his gran as a very strict woman, but imagine her problems already having an adult daughter living in with her and then having Holga coming over with three young children «occupying» her flat too .
This caused an immense bitterness, and my father - Roy - never forgave him, as long as he lived. I know Theodore came over to Norway to see his family, many years later. I believe my father denied to see him. It is my aunt - Walther’s wife -who told me about that visit."