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Lars Tobias Homme |
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31 Des 1856 |
Homme, Fjotland, Vest-Agder, Norway  [1] |
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Homme, Lars Tobias - Fødsel-Dåp (Fjotland, Vest-Agder Ministerialbok 1857)
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| Dåp |
22 Feb 1857 |
Fjotland kirke, Fjotland, Vest-Agder, Norway [1] |
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| Folketelling |
31 Des 1865 |
Homme, Fjotland, Vest-Agder, Norway [2] |
http://digitalarkivet.arkivverket.no/ft/person/pf01038188000153
Familiestilling: Hendes Søn
Sivilstand: Ugift
Familien eier følgende: 1 ku, 1/24 tønne bygg, 1/4 tønne blandkorn og 3 tønner poteter. |
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Folketelling 1865 for 1036P Fjotland prestegjeld, 1865, s. 15
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| Konfirmasjon |
8 Okt 1871 |
Fjotland kirke, Fjotland, Vest-Agder, Norway [3] |
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Homme, Lars Tobias - Konfirmasjon (Fjotland, Vest-Agder Ministerialbok 1871)
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| Folketelling |
1875 |
Homme, Fjotland, Vest-Agder, Norway [4] |
Bor sammen med moren, Guri Larsdatter, som er enke og dagarbeiderske og onkelen Sigbjørn Larsen og hans datter Juliane på gården "Ytre Homme"
Lars Tobias står oppført som ugift, boende i Kristiansand som smedlærling og løskarl.
Familien eier følgende: 1 Ku, 2 Gjeiter, 1/8 tønne med Byg, 2 tønner Poteter. |
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Folketelling 1875 for 1036P Fjotland prestegjeld, 1875, s. 64-66
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| Emigrasjon |
24 Mai 1889 |
Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway [5] |
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Homme, Lars Tobias - Emigrasjon til USA (Kristiansand politikammer, Emigrantprotokoll 1889)
Nummer: 826 |
| Passasjerliste |
8 Jun 1889 |
New York City, New York, USA [6] |
Nr. 264:
Name: Lars T Homme
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/Nationality: German
Age: 22
Birth Date: 1867
Place of Origin: Germany
Departure Port: Liverpool, England and Queenstown, Ireland
Destination: USA
Arrival Date: 8 Jun 1889
Arrival Port: New York, New York, USA
Ship Name: Britannic
Kommentar: Dokumentet virker å være litt unøyaktig utarbeidet. Alle er registrert som tysk og han er oppført som 22 år, mens han egentlig på dette tidspunktet var 32. Satt i sammenheng med emigrasjonsprotokollen fra Kristiansand og senere oppgifter om immigrasjon i år 1889, så anser jeg det som høyst sannsynlig at dette er rett person) |
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Lars Tobias Homme (1856-1937) - Travelling from Liverpool, England to New York, USA, arriving on the 8th of June 1889 (New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820)
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SS Britannic (1874) - Liverpool to New York standard route
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| Declaration of Intention (Naturalization Service USA) |
4 Nov 1890 |
Stevens County, Minnesota, USA |
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Lars Tobias Homme (1856-1937) - Declaration of Intention, Naturalization Record 1890 (Stevens County, Minnesota, USA)
United States of America – State of Minnesota, County of Stevens
District Court 16th Judicial District
Lars T. Homme personally appeared before the subscriber, the Clerk of the District Court of the 16th Judicial District for said State of Minnesota, being a COURT OF RECORD, and made oath that he was born in Norway on and about the year eighteen hundred and Fifty six, that he emigrated to the United States, and landed at the port of New York on or about the month of June in the year eighteen hundred and Eighty nine; that it is bona fide his intention to become A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to the Kingdom of Norway and Sweden whereof he is subject.
Lars T. Homme (Sign)
Subscribed and sworn to this 4th day of Nov. A. D. 1890.
Thor Thomasson (sign)
Clerk. |
| Fotoalbum |
1900 |
Minnesota, USA |
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Lars Tobias Homme (1856-1937) - Photo Album (13)
The Album belonged to Lars Tobias Homme, AKA Old Louie (1856-1937). The photos are most likely from his time in Minnesota around 1900. To this date, we do not know any names of the persons photographed.
Scanned by Karen Lorraine Brenenstuhl, nee Homme (born 1947) in 2015 |
| Kort Biografi |
Lars Homme, known as "Old Louie the Blacksmith" in the Burtonsville area, came to Alberta from Poplar, Minnesota, in 1906 at the age of 50. He had previously emigrated from Norway.
When Louie arrived in the area later known as Burtonsville he built a shed against a hillside, covering it with poles, birch bark and sod. He lived there until he built his house, after which the shed was used as a pig-house until 1915 when the birchbark rotted and the roof began to leak.
Louie built a blacksmith shop and served as the local blacksmith for some years. He was also skilled at carpentry and made his own furniture. His home-made rocker and other articles he made are still in family possession. His broad axe and anvil are owned by two of his greatnephewa.
In 1920 Louie sold his farm and returned to Minnesota, but he stayed there only four years. On his return to Burtonsville he bought a small acreage on the riverbank and lived there until a few months before his death.
During the depression years, Louie was often called upon to do repair work and at times the impossible was expected of him. The story is told that one day the remains of an old kitchen stove were brought to him to be returned to a usable state. Old Louie grumbled, "Who do they think I am? God? To have to make something out of nothing!"
In June of 1937, Louie had occasion to walk most of the way home from Edmonton. A walk of 60 miles proved too great an effort for a man of 80 and his health failed 'quickly. He was cared for in the home of his nephew Axel until his death on December 6, 1937.
- Hills of Hope (1976), page 534. |
| Utfyllende Biografi |
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Lars (Louie) og Axel Homme (skrevet av Emma Walker Homme)
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| Folketelling |
1900 |
Cass County, Minnesota, USA [7] |
Name: Lars Homme
Age: 43
Birth Date: Dec 1856
Birthplace: Norway
Home in 1900: Township 136, Cass, Minnesota
Sheet Number: 5
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: 95
Family Number: 96
Race: White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year: 1874
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Single
Father's Birthplace: Norway
Mother's Birthplace: Norway
Years in US: 26
Naturalization: Alien
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: 1 |
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Homme, Lars Tobias - US Federal Census 1900
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| Statsborgerskap |
7 Feb 1903 |
Crow Wing County, Minnesota, USA |
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Lars Tobias Homme (1856-1937) - Final Papers, Naturalization Record 1903 (County of Crow Wing, Minnesota, USA)
State of Minnesota, County of Crow Wing
District Court, Fifteenth Judicial District.
I, Lars T. Homme, do swear that I will support the Constituition
of the United States of America, and that I do absolutely and entirely Renounce and Abjure forever all Allegiance and Fidelity to every Foreign Power, Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereignty whatever; and
particularly to the King of Norway and Sweden, whose subject I was.
And further, that I never have borne any hereditary title, or been, of any of the degrees of Mobility of the Country whereof I have been a subject, and that I have resided within, the United States for five years last past, and in this State for one year last past.
Lars T. Homme
Subscribed and sworn, to in open Court, this Seventh Day of February 1903
(Signatures by Clerk and Deputy) |
| Folketelling |
26 Jun 1905 |
Poplar, Cass County, Missouri, USA [8] |
Lars Homner (Line 60)
Age: 48
Census Date: 26 Jun 1905
County: Cass
Locality: Poplar
Birth Location: Norway
Gender: Male
Estimated Birth Year: 1857
Race: White
Father's Birth Location: Norway
Mother's Birth Location: Norway
Line: 40 |
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Lars Tobias Homme (1856-1937) - Minnesota State Census 1905 (Minnesota, U.S., Territorial and State Censuses, 1849-1905)
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| Folketelling |
1911 |
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada [9] |
Name: Lars Homme
Sex: Male
Event Date: 1911
Event Place: Edmonton Sub-Districts 1-61, Alberta, Canada
Sub-District Number: 1-61
Birth Date: about 1858
Birthplace: Norway
Marital Status: Single
Religion: Lutheran
Relationship to Head of Household: Head |
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Lars Tobias Homme (1856-1937) - Canada Census 1911
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| Homestead Grant Register |
27 Jan 1911 |
Alberta, Canada [10] |
Name: Lars Homme
Application Date: 30 Mar 1907
Grant Date: 27 Jan 1911
Place: Alberta, Canada
Homestead Number: 259088
Part: NE
Section: 24
Township: 50
Range: 5
Meridian: W5 |
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Lars Tobias Homme (1856-1937) - Homestead Grant Register 1911 (Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada, Homestead Grant Registers, 1872-1930)
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| Folketelling |
1916 |
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
Name: Lass Homnoe
Gender: Male
Racial or Tribal Origin: Norwegian
Nationality: Canadian
Age: 59
Marital status: Single
Birth Year: 1857
Birth Place: Norway
Year of Immigration: 1906
Naturalization Year: 1910
Home in 1916: Edmonton West, Alberta, Canada
Address: 50, 5, 5, Tomahawk
Relation to Head of Household: Head
Sub-District: 15
Sub District Description: Townships 50, 51, 52 and 53, whole or fractional, ranges 4, 5 and 6, W. 5. M., north of the North Saskatchewan River, including the Villages of Wabamun and Wabamun Beach
Enumeration District: 15
Enumerator's Name: Thomas T Clyde
Dwelling House: 209
Religion: Lutheran
Can Speak English: Yes
Can Speak French: No
Mother Tongue: Norwegian
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Occupation: Farmer
Employment status: Working on Own Account
Employer: On Farm |
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Lars Tobias Homme (1856-1937) and Aksel Friis Homme (1888-1970) - Canada Census 1916 (1916 Canada Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta)
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| Border Crossing |
1 Jun 1920 |
Portal, North Dakota, USA [11] |
Name: Lars Homme
Gender: Male
Race/Nationality: Scandinavian
Age: 63
Record Type: Cards
Birth Place: Chrestianson
Birth Country: Norway
Arrival Date: 1 Jun 1920
Port of Arrival: Portal, North Dakota, USA |
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Lars Tobias Homme (1856-1937) - Primary Inspection Memorandum - Immigration Service 1th June 1920 (U.S., Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895-1960)
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| Border Crossing |
Jan 1921 |
Portal, North Dakota, USA [11] |
Name: Lars Homme (Line 10)
Gender: Male
Age: 63
Record Type: Manifests
Arrival Date: Jan 1921
Port of Arrival: Portal, North Dakota, USA
Residence Country: Canada
Occupation: Farmer
Nationality: Canada
Race/Nationality: Scandinavian
Last permanent residence: Burtonsville, Alberta
The Name and Address of nearest relative or friend: Axel Homme, Burtonsville, Alberta
Final Destination: Min, A ???
By whom was passage paid: Self
Whether in possesion of $50 or if less, how much: $755
Whether ever before in the United States; and if so, when and where?: Yes, 1889-1906, Minnesota
Whether going to join a relative or friend: Cousin Hans ....??? ???
Height: 5 Feet 5 Inches
Complexion: Med
Color of Hair: Grey
Color of Eyes: Grey
Marks of Identification: none
Place of birth: Norway, Christiansand |
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Lars Tobias Homme (1856-1937) - List or Manifest of Alien Passengers Applying for Admission to the USA, Jan 1921 (U.S., Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895-1960)-a
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Lars Tobias Homme (1856-1937) - List or Manifest of Alien Passengers Applying for Admission to the USA, Jan 1921 (U.S., Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895-1960)-b
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| Border Crossing |
12 Mai 1926 |
Emerson, Manitoba, Canada [12] |
Name: Lars Homme
Age: 69
Arrival Port: Emerson, Manitoba
Date of Arrival: 12 May 1926
Birth Location: Norway
Gender: Male
Citizenship: Canadian
Race or People: Norse
If in Canada Before, Between what Periods: May 1906 and June 1920
At What Adress: Burtonsville, Alberta
What Language?: Eng + Norse
Religion: Lutheran
Trade or Occupation: Farmer
Destination: To Nephew, Axel Homme, Burtonsville, Alberta
Money in Possesion: $185 |
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Lars Tobias Homme (1856-1937) - Report of Admission at Port of Emerson, Manitoba Canada 1926 (Border Crossings from U.S. to Canada, 1908-1935)
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| Død |
6 Des 1937 |
Burtonsville, Alberta, Canada |
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Lars Tobias Homme (1856-1937) - Registration of Death (Province of Alberta, Canada, 1937)
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| Beskrivelse i Litteratur |
1974 [13] |
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The Homme Family (Tomahawk Trails, 1974, page 258-264)
Homme Family
Lars Homme came to Alberta from Poplar, Minnesota in 1906 and took up homesteading at Burtonsville that same spring. There was no post office at Burtonsville at that time so his mail came to Mewassin. Heavy supply wagons brought supplies to logging camps. There was some logging being done in this area as well as farther west. He built himself a dug out in the hillside, covered it with tamarack poles with birch bark and sod on top and lived there until he built his house. That summer, after he moved out he used it for his pig house and it was still in use in 1915 when the birch bark rotted and the shed began to leak. He was handy with carpenter tools and made his own furniture. His home-made rocker is still in the family, along with many other articles he made. He built himself a blacksmith shop and was known far around as "Old Louie the Blacksmith." His broad axe and anvil shown in the picture is still a relic in the family possessions.
In 1909 his nephew Axel Homme joined him. Axel was a rivetter who worked at the ship yards at Fevik, Norway since he was 15 years old. Now he was 21 and like his uncle, a handyman all around. They spent many long evenings by coal oil lamps whittling birch picture frames and other articles used in their carpenter work.
Axel then took up a homestead. His first choice was in the Tomahawk area. He built a shack of logs and lived there one winter. However it was too far to walk back and forth to see Uncle Louie. Since he had learned a bit of English, he went working in the logging camps. He then filed on a homestead one mile north of his Uncle Louie's, built a log shack again and lived there when he was not on the river drive or in the camp.
As small as wages were, he saved money for a trip home to Norway by 1912. So on October 4, 1912 he left the drive at the Holborn ferry site. During the night a snow fall of four inches came so he went home and prepared for his leave to Norway.
In August 1913 he arrived back in Alberta and again he went on river drives and worked in logging camps until 1933. He knew many men who would come up river in the summer and try their luck rolling logs. Among them was a man named Bill Powers. He was a church-going man who believed in prayer before work. He went out to roll logs one morning and some of the men saw him standing with a long face. So they asked Bill what was wrong. "Ah!" he says, "I forgot to say my Geesly prayers this morning." After that he went by the name of "Geesly Bill."
This picture enclosed shows Axel on a log out in the river stream crossing to the wannigan for dinner. Boatsmen picked him off the log before he got all the way across.
Then there was the time in 1912 when, during the night, the cook and sleeping quarters wannigan hit a drift or peer and sunk, sending everything into the swollen torrent. Fortunately no lives were lost. Some of the men from this area had gone home for the night and missed the disaster. Some old timers might remember how long it was before the driving resumed. However, it was quite some time; many articles of clothing, bedding, pots, pans, etc. were picked out of the drift piles. The cook's little dog was rescued days later after being stranded in a drift; miles down river from the accident.
Axel came home from the drive that summer to find his Uncle Louie had been injured by a pet steer. He had climbed a wood pile to get away from the animal and finally managed to get inside the house; he sat for three days in his rocker without food or drink.
In those early days in winter the Indians used a trail crossing Old Louie's land, mostly by pack horse. There was a spot near the south west corner where they would camp; here many arrow heads and scrapers were found. The Indians built contraptions (I don't know what they were called) but they were straight willow poles approximately 2½ inches at the butt and 6 to 8 feet long. It seems to me as I saw two old broken-down ones where the big end had been forced into the ground about a foot apart, deep enough to hold it firm and placed to form a circle. The tops were pulled down to the centre resembling a rounded basket up-side down. In the centre were large stones which were heated and the poles covered with skins; then water was poured over the hot stones. That was the way they made their steam bath. The information as to what these were used for was obtained from Stanley MacDougall.
The Indians had a trail through here, (I am not sure just where) but the half-breeds used it in later years. They would take a team, sleighs and pack horses; go toward Rocky Mountain House and trap for a month or more at a time. I have seen lynx that they were thawing to skin.
A half-breed family, the father a one-armed man; (his name was Louie Toyie) his arm was torn off by a bear. However, he had five sons and lived on a homestead in this area. One son died young, leaving a wife and family. Before moving from the Lac. Ste. Anne area, a son, Martin at the age of 15 got lost while hunting and froze both feet. In order to save his life the mother sawed both his feet off with a hand saw. Talk about courage! One story goes that they filled Martin with moonshine so he couldn't feel the pain — but what an ordeal for a mother!
This Louie was a great trapper, even though he was very old. Martin lived with his parents; his mother made him soft pads for his legs of rabbit fur and covered them with deer skin. He would often be seen beside the wagon trail part way between his home and one of his brothers, always carrying a knife and whittling when he stopped to rest. Old Louie and Axel thought it would be a real interesting thing to make Martin a pair of wooden legs. I don't know if he walked much with them, however, he could put them on and get on and off his horse; it made riding much easier.
The half-breeds all sold out in 1917. Some went to St. Albert and most of them went to Wabamun where Martin and his father made their home for awhile. Louie was known as "Old Wha Wha," or the "One Arm Man." The children we went to school with said Wha Wha meant "my goodness." Sometimes when we children would meet him on our way home from school he would act as though he hadn't seen us and as he passed us he would jump and yell "Wha Wha," which frightened us; then he would laugh.
Around 1910 or so there were three wagon loads of these people who went west, crossing the Tomahawk Creek here on the river flat south of John Scheideman's building site. The banks were very high and the creek wide, a long, flimsy pole bridge was the only crossing. That morning they had gone on top of the hill west of the now Shoal Lake School site and picked blueberries which would be dried for winter. They would melt lard to coat them and sprinkled with sugar they were quite good. However, two wagons crossed this bridge on the way home and the third wagon broke through throwing Martin's mother into the creek where she hit her head on a boulder and was killed instantly. So they went to Old Louie and Axel Homme to build her a coffin. They then took the body to Lac. Ste. Anne.
No one knew exactly how old Louie really was; some said at least 106 years. His birthday was New Year's Day and mom knit him a woollen mitt for his 95th birthday the winter of 1913. He lived to see the 20's. Each birthday until 1917 mom would make him a mitt!
Once in a great while some of the boys we went to school with us stopped in to say hello which was a joy. The men would make snares and catch rabbits; the women would skin them, cut them into long, narrow strips, tack them to a long pole and fasten that to a building or a solid post and raise it high in the air where the wind would whip and the frost would help make these skins soft and pliable. There were frames about 55 by 55 inches which the skins could be fastened to; they then were woven into robes. These robes were sold for a high price.
In 1919, my dad, D. H. Walker bought the land when all the half-breeds moved away.
Axel rented the land in 1919; there was a small log shack on the river bank and inside Axel noticed a pole. Nailed on one end right in the centre was a long, narrow box. He investigated and found Martin's two feet, all dried of course, but complete and sawed off just above the ankles. The hardships they went through only eternity will tell.
But they were surely good neighbors and ready to help when whites refused.
This has been written by memory from conversation of Axel and his Uncle Louis Homme. Although I did not know Old Wha Wha, I know that even his grandson did not know his name was Louie; they called him Wha Wha. However, I did know Martin and also saw his feet when Axel opened the box. We replaced the box and were sorry later as the renters destroyed them.
Old Louie Homme never did get married; he passed away on December 6, 1937.
Axel married Emma Walker on November 30, 1916. We were married in Edmonton in the parsonage beside the big MacDougall Church by Pastor Armstrong. We left Edmonton at 3 p.m. the same day by heavy lumber wagon.
We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in 1966 with all our children present. There are now 28 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. Axel passed away on August 20, 1970. |
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Burtonsville Cemetery, Alberta, Canada [14] |
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Lars Tobias Homme (1856-1937) - Gravestone at Burtonsville Cemetery
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Lars Tobias Homme (1856-1937) - Gravestone at Burtonsville Cemetery-2
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Lars Tobias Homme (1856-1937) - Gravestone at Burtonsville Cemetery-3
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2 brødre og 1 søster |
| + | 1. Ole Andreas Andreassen Homme, f. 17 Mar 1849, Omland, Fjotland, Vest-Agder, Norway d. 1 Okt 1928, Fevik, Aust-Agder, Norway (Alder 79 år)
▻ Omine Ovidia Petterdatter Veisdal, g. 26 Mar 1877 ; Ida Marie Fredriksdatter Solberg, g. 8 Jan 1888 | | | 2. Lars Tobias Homme, f. 31 Des 1856, Homme, Fjotland, Vest-Agder, Norway d. 6 Des 1937, Burtonsville, Alberta, Canada (Alder 80 år) | | | 3. Anna Andreasdatter Homme, f. 29 Mai 1861, Saurfid, Fjotland, Vest-Agder, Norway d. 9 Aug 1861, Saurfid, Fjotland, Vest-Agder, Norway (Alder 0 år) | | | 4. Andreas Andreassen Homme, f. 17 Jul 1862, Saurfid, Fjotland, Vest-Agder, Norway d. 7 Jan 1863, Saurfid, Fjotland, Vest-Agder, Norway (Alder 0 år) |
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I79 |
Servan Homme |
| Sist endret |
10 Sep 2021 |
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