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Hans Petur Ellingsgaard born July 9 1826
at the town (village sized)

EIDI soft "D" pronounced as EYE -THE in icelandic or danish
father Óli Knudsen
mother Elizabeth Malena Joensdatter

please read my
Danish personal names and naming FAQ http://www.rootsweb.com/~dnkcen/FAQ/names.html

Evidently from a reference book on the history of various boats.

there is nothing about his marriage or children

He qualified as a skipper in Copenhagen

Danish archives FAQ
http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ednkcen/FAQ/index.html

Faero islands
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8...

several census pages
a 13 year old of the same name in 1870

site:fo

http://www.sightseeing.fo/danish/links.htm

maps

http://www.faroeislands.com/Default.asp?sida=691

http://www.faroeislands.com/images/kort001.gif

not big enough to read town name s

the village in 1870 I think ????
Eiðis bygd – 1870


http://heima.olivant.fo/~egilstro/e/1870/index.ie.html

http://www.visit-faroeislands.com/


http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&i...

BTW Faeroses is a case language so endings of words change ll the time.

Wanted
Anders Clausen Kruse
Born 1821, moved from Snogebæk on Bornholm in Denmark, to Libau, in what was supposed to be Russia.

Hans Jørgen Kruse
Born 1828, moved from Snogebæk on Bornholm in Denmark, to California.

Contact:
Bettemi Egilstøð, egilstro@post.olivant.fo
FO-470 Eiði
Faroe Islands
telephone +298 42 32 69
telefax +298 42 31 56
http://heima.olivant.fo/~egilstro/wanted.html

write to this guy !!

http://heima.olivant.fo is a home page server

http://www.olivant.fo

is the portal
do read
Danish family history with Hugh: "How to find your Danish roots, or your cousins abroad"
http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ednkcen/en/hugo.html

before 1948 the language of administration and records is Danish



Hugh W