Person ID: I5856881118

Brita Skjeldestad Bjedla

b. 1770

Female

Events

Born
1770

Married: 1797

Married: 1815

Notes

  • SO: D-047 NOTES: First marriage was to a 51 year old widower, Hans Espenson, who lived on a neighboring farm. She was 27. The year was 1797. Brita's sister, Durdei, married the widower Baard Ivarson Kvaale in 1796. Baard had a son, Anders, born 1794, who came to the farm Skjeldstad as a servant. When Hans Espensen died in 1815 at age 70 (no children), his widow, Brita remarried her servant, Anders, the same year. By marriage she was his aunt. Brita died in 1844 at age 74. Anders then married a 35 year old woman. They had 2 children.