The majority of the family information content on this page comes from Norman Svee, Great-Grandson of Gunnerius Jonassen Svebukta.
GUNNERIUS JONASSEN SVEBUKTA
GUNNERIUS JONASSEN SVEBUKTA was born February 22, 1847 in Svebukta, Skatval, Stjørdal, Norway, and died 1932 in Svebukta, Skatval, Stjørdal, Norway. He married KAREN ANNA OLSDATTER SALTOEN January 27, 1875.
Karen was the daughter of OLE NASYOLD and MARTHA FORBORDGJERD. She was
born December 28, 1842 in Asen, Sweden,and died 1892 in Svebukta,
Skatval, Stjørdal, Norway.
The 4 Children of GUNNERIUS SVEE and KAREN SALTOEN are:
(1) ELINE GUNNERIUSDATTER SVEE.
Eline was born in 1874 in Svebukta, Skatval,
Stjørdal, Norway. Her first husband was JOHN PETER OLSEN
SALTØY. She married again to GUSTAV (last name
unknown).
(2) METTE GUNNERIUSDATTER SVEE.
Mette was born in 1878 in Svebukta, Skatval, Stjørdal,
Norway. We know she emigrated to America and died there but do
not know the dates of either evernt.
(3) JOHN GUNNERIUSEN SVEE.
John was born on June 17, 1880 in Svebukta, Skatval,
Stjørdal, Norway. He emigrated from Trondheim to
Zumbrota, Minnesota on April 02, 1902, He was naturalized on July
17, 1941, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. John died January 29, 1951,
Los Angeles, California.
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John G. and Mathilde Hansen Svee |
John and Mathilde |
John married
MATHILDE HANSEN,
on October 19, 1907 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mathilde was born
November 16, 1882 in Kapstadmyra, Eidskog, Hedmark,Norway.
Mathilde emigrated to Minnesota from Oslo, Norway on April 08,
1904. She was naturalized on November 13, 1942, in Los Angeles,
California. Mathilde died on November 20, 1956 in Los Angeles,
California.
John G. Svee's Information:
In the 1900 Norwegian census,
John G. Sve was living with his family on the farm Svebukten in Norde
Stjørdalen and listed as a railroad worker. In 1901 he was
employed by the Norde Statsbaner (Norwegian Railroad) in the Hell-Sunde
Branch.
According to Trondheim Police emigration records, 22-year-old John Gunneriusen Sve, from Norde Stjørdal,
sailed from Trondheim on April 2, 1902 aboard a feeder service ship,
S/S Tasso of the Wilson Line. (
See notes below describing this type of journey)
Bound for Zumbrota, Minnesota, he traveled on a ticket prepaid in
America. Norwegian emigration records confirm this, varying only in the
spelling of his last name - Svee - and identifying his transport as the
American Line. (The American Line provided trans-Atlantic service
and would have been the issuing agent for a ticket purchased in the
U.S.)
Norwegian emigration records indicate that more than 600 Norwegians
emigrated to Zumbrota in Goodhue County, Minnesota between 1880 and
1910, most of them with prepaid tickets. In an effort to increase their
populations, settlements in Goodhue County were paying emigrant
transportation costs from Norway during that period.
The Tasso would reach Hull, England in about four days. There John
would board a train to Liverpool from where he would ultimately depart
for America. In 1902 the American Line operated between Liverpool and
Philadelphia, completing an overall voyage for Norwegian emigrants of
approximately three weeks. The most likely trans-Atlantic ship during
the time of John's travel was the S/S Haverford, and the final leg of
his journey to Zumbrota would be by train.
Mathilde Hansen's Information:
Mathilde Hansdatter Kapstadmyra (Mathilde, the daughter of Hans on the
farm Kapstadmyra) sometimes spelled her first name 'Mathilda'. She is
not listed under either spelling on the 1900 Norwegian census and it's
believed that she may have been in Sweden at that time with her brother
Anton Hansen. However, the Norwegian emigration records show that
Mathilde Hansen (an adaptation of her surname which she used in
America) sailed on a prepaid ticket from Oslo, Norway on April 8, 1904,
bound for Minnesota. The first leg of her trip was aboard the Wilson
Line's S/S Montebello to Hull, England, (stopping first in
Kristiansund) where she, too, would proceed by rail to Liverpool. The
name of her trans-Atlantic ship and port of arrival are not known.
Because she isn't listed on the records at Ellis Island, she
disembarked in Philadelphia, Boston or Quebec, Canada. It was probably
Quebec, and from there she'd have traveled by train to Minnesota.
Note: (Jon Satrum). Many
of the early Norwegian immigrants to Goodhue county came through
Quebec. If Mathilde travelled to Quebec from Liverpool, she most
likely would have travelled on the Allan line. A passenger
sailing from Christiania would have continued on from the UK in the
next seven days, although some people delayed a week or more. Mathilde
leaving Norway on April 8 would have brought her to Liverpool by
approximately April 12.
Possible 1904 Allan line ships leaving from Liverpool to Quebec include:
(1) SS Tunisian - April 22, 1904. (Mathilde's departure date make this the most logical to research).
SS TUNISIAN (Built 1900)
(2) SS Corinthinan. We know she took some trips to Qubec in 1904.
(3) SS Bavarian. We know she took some trips to Qubec in 1904.
(4) OLE GUNNERIUSEN SVEE. Ole was born in 1883
in Svebukta, Skatval, Stjørdal, Norway. Ole emigrated to
America and died there but we do not have the dates of either event.
EXCERPTS
FROM THE DIARY OF A PASSENGER ON THE TASSO IN 1880, DESCRIBE THE TYPE
OF JOURNEY JOHN GUNNERIUSEN SVEE WOULD HAVE TAKEN.
CREDITS: www.norwayheritage.com and can be found at their site at
http://www.norwayheritage.com/articles/templates/voyages.asp?articleid=76&zoneid=6: .
This is the account of Ingeborg Olsdatter Øye's journey on the
S/S Tasso in 1880. Parts of Ingeborg Olsdatter Øye's diary has been printed in
Dordi Glærum Skuggervik's book: "Utvandringshistorie fra Nordmøre" - ISBN
02-991394-0-6.
April 19th, 1880.
"This will be the last time I write in my little diary here at my home.
Tomorrow 8 days, I will go to Kristiansund. Thursday 29th S/S Tasso
will arrive from Trondheim. I am walking as in a dream now, I have
taken farewell on many places to person after person for the last
time......
Kristiansund 28th April.
The steamship Tasso will, after what the agent says, arrive at 1
o'clock tonight. We have to be ready for the arrival. It is impossible
to get any sleep now in these waiting hours. I will try to use the time
while I wait to write in my diary. The weather out at sea is not good.
The "Pacific" which departed this morning, had to turn and come back to
Kristiansund this evening. It will be a hard journey before reaching
England. But the dear hope.....holds my courage up. So let it in Goods
name go! ........
On Board the "Tasso" April 30, dinner time.
Now we have had a taste of what it is like to bo out on the sea; and
the ugly sickness has hosted most of the emigrants aboard. We departed
Kristiansund at 5 o'clock this morning. The weather was all ready
stormy when we left Kristiansund, and it has not become any better
since. There is about 400 emigrants aboard the ship. It is a terrible
mess since most of them are sick. I was a little sick crossing the
"Hustadviken", but now I am quite well. I was happy to meat an other
emigrant that could speak the English language, we started to talk and
that kept my courage up while I was feeling very sick. I think the ship
now will call at Aalesund. It is so much strange to se here on the
ship. If I can keep from being sick the rest of the time, I think the
journey will go fine. The worst is the bad sleeping accommodations we
have, so full and crowded as it is too. But thank Good I have courage,
as I am traveling to meet "my" Peder.
On board the "Tasso" in the morning of May 1st
We are now out on the North Sea, so we can not see land in any
direction. The ship crew says that we will have good weather, but
despite of that the ship is rolling about on the waves of the North
Sea. Since dinnertime yesterday I have been free from sea sickness, and
yesterday I had a "grown" supper. My sleeping accommodations were good,
as there were 5 of us who slept on the deck with some blankets over us,
as the bedrooms were overcrowded. It was quite fun, and though I did
not sleep tight, it was a good night's sleep. Yesterday evening at 9 we
left the Norwegian coast. Today it is quite busy up on deck, some are
washing them selves, others are writing, in other words they are doing
all kinds of different things.
May 2nd. Sunday onboard the "Tasso"
Last night I had a fairly good sleeping place, as good as one can
expect on journeys like this, and which you can expect in a room
overcrowded by women, men and children. I got up in the morning to get
a little something to eat, namely a slice of bread and some biscuits
which we receive in the morning with a cup of bad black cafe, but this
made me ill, I tried to sit down in the room in front, but I had to go
up on deck to be sick. I stayed up on deck after this. Here aft on the
deck it is best to sit. Many of the passengers are not leaving their
beds now. A Sunday morning like this they have newer experienced before
many says. It is not very pleasant to day either. The wind is blowing
cold and strong, and the seas washes over the deck at times. This is
the third day on board since we left Kristiansund. It was said earlier
that we would reach England today; but due to the strong head wind it
will probably not be before tonight or tomorrow that we will arrive to
Hull.
I have had fun for a while now, I have been sitting down discussing
different issues with a young boy. Almost everyone aboard are very
cleaver, so good company is not hard to find. Yesterday we had a long
meeting up on deck and then a long discussion about love. It has been
quite amusing at times. - If only I knew that my parents were not
suffering. I know they will be thinking about me now. "Tasso" is not as
bad as I once thought, and if it had not been so crowded it wouldn't
have been bad. The food is also better than what I had expected, yes it
is irreproachable. For breakfast we get black cafe which is very bad, a
biscuit with butter and a slice of bread. For dinner we get a dish of
meat, which is very good. For supper we get a biscuit and a cup of tea,
which is good, without cream.
Liverpool May 4th 1880, at the dinner table
Yesterday morning at 3 o'clock we approached Hull. In the evening,
Sunday the 2nd we already started to get the sight of the lighthouse.
It was a splendid sight, when we came up on deck in the morning, and
could see Hull for our eyes. The town is a great sight, but not very
beautiful after my opinion. The huge stone buildings are blackened by
the smoke and dust from coal which is in the air. But huge and
beautiful were all the ships we could see in the harbor.