Individual Details
Mons Jonassen Feragen
(1679 - 1748)
Nordgård Gjersvoll Gnr 136
As one of the first tillers of the soil, Mons Jonassen and Margrete Jonsdatter arrives at Gjersvoll in 1700 Mons was born at Jonasvollen by Feragen in Røros in about 1680, and like many others at this time he was on the outlook for a place to settle where he could live and feed a family. His choics come to be on Gjersvollen in Hessdalen.
According to ”Bygdeboka” for Ålen he had three children:
Jon Monsen, born 1706, Anne Monsdatter, b. 1713 and Jonas Monsen b. 1715.
Jon stayed at Gjersvollen, where as his sister Anne moved to Aunegrenda, Nordaune, Ustgården. Jonas takes over Storlia in Ålen and thus he bescomes the forefather to Jonas Lie family.
The younger son of Jonas, Mons (1757-1827) lives Ålen, and later he becomes leader of the firebrigade in Trondheim, and after that police comissioner in the same town.
Anne Monsdatter marries Joen Pedersen and settles on the southern Singsåsmo farm. There a grandchild with same mane was married to blacksmith Tore Toresen Singsåsmo, born Sørgårdsberget in 1774 in Tylldalen. Tore was a well reputed blacksmith who makes plow irons for tilling the soil, long before Kvernland makes his verson, fifty years later.
The same Tore becomes the step grandfather to Jakob (pinadø) with
”litjfoten” in Johna Boier’s famous novel.” The last viking”
The name Mons or Mogens which come to Gjersvollen in 1700 can be traced in generation after generation. The name moves to Ustgården Nordaunet and further to Singsås. From there it crosses the Atlantic to the United States and the last Mons in this family tree dies in Canby Yellow, Minnesota Des. 31st 1961. This Mons is the 7th generation in straight line from Mogens or Mons who come to Gjersvoll in the year 1700.
The name Mons vanishes in Hessdalen after 1900. However, according to ” Bygdeboka” , one person supposedly had the nickname ”kus-Mons”, due to his special body posture. Nothing is told though who this man actually was.
Name Jon or John remains at Gjersvoll, but moves to Trøen and is found there for many years. Thus the name John Johnsen Trøen or John Pedersen Trøen can be traced in many generations on Trøen. As a curiosity it may told that there as a Jon bron 1706, in 1806 and also one in 1906. It is to be hoped that there will also be one born in 2006.
Today there are many ”Johns ” who can be traced back to Jon Monsen Gjersvoll 1706, in Holtålen commune only, there are about ten persons.
The sources for this chronicle are mainly based on the following volumes: Bygedboka for Ålen, Haltdalen og Haltdalingen og Singsåsboka.
The material about the people who emigrated to the US is collected from The Landmark Generation. by Luella Jonson. and from The Immigrants Treck by Gustav O. Sandro and from a family historian in Rapid City S.D. He is a descendant from the people of Gjersvoll in Hessdalen, Sørgårdsberget in Tylldalen and at Sommervoll in Haltdalen. Also from several farms in Singsås, among others Morset, Engen and Hermo.
The most difficult things in this genealogical work is to make sure that no person is lost in the descriptions. I know, however, for sure that some people have been forgotten or omitted, even though I have done best to avoid such faults. Some persones disappear, and can’t be traced no matter how dedicated one is in the work.
Therefore I can only regret it if my work is incomplete.
The reason for my devotion to this task has been the signs which in cut into a stone wall of a barn in Hessdalen. M.J. 1700 B.E.G. 1938 According to information I have gathered this stone with figures and letters was moved to this place during a restoration in 1938. Despite of the restoration which has taken place. This is a structure which dates more than three centuries back in the past.
Hessdalen May 2003
Per Moen
As one of the first tillers of the soil, Mons Jonassen and Margrete Jonsdatter arrives at Gjersvoll in 1700 Mons was born at Jonasvollen by Feragen in Røros in about 1680, and like many others at this time he was on the outlook for a place to settle where he could live and feed a family. His choics come to be on Gjersvollen in Hessdalen.
According to ”Bygdeboka” for Ålen he had three children:
Jon Monsen, born 1706, Anne Monsdatter, b. 1713 and Jonas Monsen b. 1715.
Jon stayed at Gjersvollen, where as his sister Anne moved to Aunegrenda, Nordaune, Ustgården. Jonas takes over Storlia in Ålen and thus he bescomes the forefather to Jonas Lie family.
The younger son of Jonas, Mons (1757-1827) lives Ålen, and later he becomes leader of the firebrigade in Trondheim, and after that police comissioner in the same town.
Anne Monsdatter marries Joen Pedersen and settles on the southern Singsåsmo farm. There a grandchild with same mane was married to blacksmith Tore Toresen Singsåsmo, born Sørgårdsberget in 1774 in Tylldalen. Tore was a well reputed blacksmith who makes plow irons for tilling the soil, long before Kvernland makes his verson, fifty years later.
The same Tore becomes the step grandfather to Jakob (pinadø) with
”litjfoten” in Johna Boier’s famous novel.” The last viking”
The name Mons or Mogens which come to Gjersvollen in 1700 can be traced in generation after generation. The name moves to Ustgården Nordaunet and further to Singsås. From there it crosses the Atlantic to the United States and the last Mons in this family tree dies in Canby Yellow, Minnesota Des. 31st 1961. This Mons is the 7th generation in straight line from Mogens or Mons who come to Gjersvoll in the year 1700.
The name Mons vanishes in Hessdalen after 1900. However, according to ” Bygdeboka” , one person supposedly had the nickname ”kus-Mons”, due to his special body posture. Nothing is told though who this man actually was.
Name Jon or John remains at Gjersvoll, but moves to Trøen and is found there for many years. Thus the name John Johnsen Trøen or John Pedersen Trøen can be traced in many generations on Trøen. As a curiosity it may told that there as a Jon bron 1706, in 1806 and also one in 1906. It is to be hoped that there will also be one born in 2006.
Today there are many ”Johns ” who can be traced back to Jon Monsen Gjersvoll 1706, in Holtålen commune only, there are about ten persons.
The sources for this chronicle are mainly based on the following volumes: Bygedboka for Ålen, Haltdalen og Haltdalingen og Singsåsboka.
The material about the people who emigrated to the US is collected from The Landmark Generation. by Luella Jonson. and from The Immigrants Treck by Gustav O. Sandro and from a family historian in Rapid City S.D. He is a descendant from the people of Gjersvoll in Hessdalen, Sørgårdsberget in Tylldalen and at Sommervoll in Haltdalen. Also from several farms in Singsås, among others Morset, Engen and Hermo.
The most difficult things in this genealogical work is to make sure that no person is lost in the descriptions. I know, however, for sure that some people have been forgotten or omitted, even though I have done best to avoid such faults. Some persones disappear, and can’t be traced no matter how dedicated one is in the work.
Therefore I can only regret it if my work is incomplete.
The reason for my devotion to this task has been the signs which in cut into a stone wall of a barn in Hessdalen. M.J. 1700 B.E.G. 1938 According to information I have gathered this stone with figures and letters was moved to this place during a restoration in 1938. Despite of the restoration which has taken place. This is a structure which dates more than three centuries back in the past.
Hessdalen May 2003
Per Moen
Events
| Birth | 1679 | Jonasvollen, Roros | |||
| Birth | 1679 | ||||
| Death | 1748 |
Families
| Spouse | Margrete Jonsdatter (1679 - 1765) |
| Child | Jonas Monsen Gjersvoll (1715 - 1791) |
| Child | Anne Monsdatter Gjersvoll (1713 - 1786) |
| Child | Jon Monsen Gjersvoll (1706 - ) |
| Spouse | Margrethe Johsdatter Hov (1682 - 1730) |