Krokum Farm, Sor-Fron, Oppland, Norway

[Dawn King]

We are looking for property records regarding our ancestors at Krokum Farm in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The Krokum Farm is in Sor-Fron in Oppland, Norway. If you can help, we would appreciate it! Also, we will be traveling in Norway. If there are any museums that would have history of this area, we would love to visit them. 
 

Thank you!

[Jan Erik Olvin]

There is a facebook group with a discussing the Krokom places in conjunction with writing a family history book. You might join the group and ask additional questions to the people involved in the discussion.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/182979105167692/posts/3858194310979468/

They are discussing several "Smallholdings"  named Krokom" existed at Nordgard Skodal, Upper Nigard Skodal, and Lower Nigard Skodal—specifically Upper Krokom, Southern Krokom, and Northern Krokom and include some names and a map.

Endret September 21 av Jan Erik Olvin

[Dawn King]

Thank you, Jan! We took your recommendation and I have posted and am waiting for my question to be approved and posted by the Facebook administrators of the group. If anyone here has recommendations for locating property documents for Krokum Farm in the 1700-1838 or for recommendations for history museums to visit while in Norway, we would appreciate them!

[Dawn King]

For a bit of context, we think that Krokum Farm would be in the Matrikler 1723 and 1838. But we don’t read Norwegian and aren’t sure what section of the Matrikler it would be in. Krokum Farm is in Sor-Fron so that might help with what section of the Matrikler it would be in.

[Jan Erik Olvin]

According to the book "Gardar og slekter i Fron. 1 : Sør-Fron" Krokom (note written with o not u) a common name for several leasholds or tennant farms under the matrikkel farms mentioned above. It is likely that at tennant lease hold, will be mentioned  in the matrikkel. However, the according to the book, the leasholds are mentioned in  1801 and 1865 under the main farms. https://www.nb.no/items/e39f6c2911849be682234d6f7f0eff30?page=481&searchText=krokom . You might not be able to access the National Library link from abroad. You migh givee names for the people you are looking for in this forum and then we should search the digital archive and look for them under Nordgard Skodal, Upper Nigard Skodal, and Lower Nigard Skodal to identify the correct place. Once found, there is available information of animals  and yield from of the tennants. You will probably get information from the facebook group, but names are important in order to identify the correct main farm and tennants.

Endret September 22 av Jan Erik Olvin

[Dawn King]

Thank you for this information.
 

Lodver Iversen Krokum was born 1753 and married to Anne Gundersdatter.
 

Johannes Lodversen Krokum was born 1793 and married Ragnild Iversdatter. 
 

Records show a passport issued on 5/5/1838 to move to Trondheim.

 

We are currently in Trondheim and would like to visit the area in Oppland to see Krokum Farm.  

Thank you for any help you can provide!

[Trond Myrstad]

According to the site "Ringebuslekter" (onshus.no) Lodver Iversen Krokum lived at Krokum under Skodal (Skurdal), Harpefoss, Sør-Fron, see pointer on attached map 

Endret Tirsdag 11:31 av Trond Myrstad

[Trond Myrstad]

By combining infomation from the book "Gardar og slekter i Fron. 1 : Sør-Fron" and the 1801 census, we can extract that Lodver Iversen Krokum lived at Krokum under Nigard Øvre Skodal (147/1) (and not from Nigard Nedre Skodal (146/1) where there also was a place Krokum)

[Dawn King]

Does 147/1 mean they have the whole property or the first parcel of split land?  Was this land used for crops or grazing?

 

Another question. Cathedral Yard of Darakirken is listed  as Johannes Lodversen Krokum’s burial place about 1877.  We are assuming this is in Trondheim, but research doesn’t tell us where Darakirken is. Any ideas where this is?

[Trond Myrstad]

147/1 is the farm number for Nigard Øvre Skodal. Krokum didn't have a separate farm number at that time. Krokum didn't have a separate farm number until 1911 (147/3)

[Trond Myrstad]

I haven't seen any records showing the death of Johannes Lodversen. "Darakirken" must be a mis-spelling.

[Jan Erik Olvin]

3 timer siden, Trond Myrstad skrev:

I haven't seen any records showing the death of Johannes Lodversen. "Darakirken" must be a mis-spelling.

If this is a family hand written record, it could be a misspeling of Domkirken. I see the childeren was married in Vår Frues kirke in Trondhjem, which share the graveyard with Domkirken (ref. Cathedral reference). You should manually read through the death notices from the Vår Frues and Domkirken church books, in case there is an error in the transkribtion, which is not unheard of.

[Trond Myrstad]

I briefly looked at the church records for both Domkirken and Vår Frues Kirke for 1877 without success. However, the record were hard to read, so it's fully possible I missed something. Neither I checked the records for 1876 nor 1878