Eilert Olas Mikkelsen HEGGE Family History

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The Eilert Olaus Mikkelsen Hegge Family History

Eilert was born near Stod's Proestegeld, Norway. (Near Stainkje.) His father was Mekkel Eriksen. His mother was Malena Johnsdatter Hegge. Couples commonly took the name of the bride's farm "HEGGE". All but one of his siblings came to the U.S. "Jacob Hegge"

Eilert is my gr-great Grandfather. When he arrived in the U.S in 1866, at age 18, he first lived and worked on various farms around Grantsburg. Wisconsin. On the Rask family farm in Grantsburg, he met and married the lovely Swedish girl "Christine Katherine Rask." She was 16 years old when they married on APR, 18, 1874. Church attended was Bethany Lutheren and later St.Olaf's Lutheren Church. Later the couple homesteaded their own land in Grantsburg Wisconsin. See the Burnett County, Grantsburg, Wisconsin 1880 U.S Census: Look to see who the neighbors were on the census. The Rask Family. According to a grand-daughter of Eilert the Sons who left Norway vowed to never return. It was a kind of legendary pact. Inherant to those leaving Norway.

EIlert M. Hegge

Born: AUG, 02, 1845 / Died: JAN 03, 1929 / Burried: Wood River Baptist Cemetarr, Grantsburg, Wisconsin.



Christina K. RASK / HEGGE

Born: SEPT, 29, 1856 / Died: SEPT 6 1936


Christina was born in Finnakers Bruh, Sweden and was christened 5 Oct 1856 in Finnakers Bruk, Fellingsbro, Orebro, Sweden. Her fatehr is J.E Rask her mother is Magdelena Larson. Burnett Co, Wisconsin and was buried in Wood River Baptist Cemetery, Burnett Co, Wisconsin.

Eilert and Chrisitna had ten children

My great grandfather John Martin Hegge

Updated August 12,2005

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