[#1472] Rønningen

[Gjest Sue Barham]

What does this word signify when attached to the name of a farm? Is the answer true regardless of what municipality or parish in which it occurs?

[Gjest Kristian Fjeldsgård]

It means that it is a part,later usually independent part, of the farm. Rønningen is very common, if it is a rare main farm name it may be true regardless were it's situated, but most farm names occours all over Norway, and you have to specify the municipalty or parish

[Gjest Kristian Fjeldsgård]

Lenke is a link to Norwegian farm names

[Gjest Sue Barham]

Thank you Kristian. I suspected that it was a way to set apart one section of a main farm from the other. I don't do too well in the Rygh list, because I don't read Norwegian, but I will try again.

[Gjest Kristian Fjeldsgård]

If you know the main farm name start with the first and the second letter and a * or ?. The spelling is essensiell and I allways do it searching the 1664 cencus. If you have the area, the better. I advice you to registrate your ancestor with the farm name as the surname, with known alias AKA (situated on other farms f.i). In the case Rønningen - by memory I recall Bø-Rønningen as a farm name, and I would have the surname Bø-Rønningen, or if Northern(Nordre) Bø, Bø-Nordre. It's easier to trace Ole Pedersen Bø-Nordre than Ole Pedersen or Ole Pedersen Rønningen