52 Ancestors- Week 2 Challenge
Henrikka Hansen. She's one of my greatest genealogical research challenges. Although she is close enough to me in history to be well-documented, I have yet to discover little more about her than her name. Parish Register 1853-1858, Vår Frue Church, Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway The parish register entry for the birth and baptism of my 2d great-grandmother, Inger Henriette Holm, lists Henrikka Hansen as her mother. This is the only documentation of her that I have ever found. It offers up a few clues about her, however. She was not married to Inger Henriette's father, Josias Andersen Holm. In fact, he was married to someone else at the time. The word "enke" [widow] appears before her name. So she was married before and widowed. She was a lodger at a place called Islen/Islan in or near the city of Trondheim in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. The go-to source for researching Norwegian ancestry is the National Archives of Norway site, "T...
