The Trygsland Family

Trygsland of Bjelland in Marnardal, county of Vest-Agder

The Trygsland farm is situated in Bjelland in the municipality of Marnardal north of Mandal in Southern Norway.

Genealogy
Trygsland links
Ytre Homme
Other Hoelseth websites

Genealogy

As of now only a short version of the older generations of the Trygsland genealogy will be published here.

Lars Larsen Trygsland, b. 25 November 1842, d. 23 September 1917, son of Lars Aanensen Mindrebø and Siri Salvesdatter; m1. Bjelland church [Marnardal] 11 April 1867 Targjer Salvesdatter Åmsland, b. Finsland [Songdalen] 7 May 1843, d. 31 May 1889, daughter of Salve Syvertsen Åmsland and Guri Sørensdatter Kleveland; m2. Bjelland church [Marnardal] 13 July 1894 Anna Olsdatter Bjerland, b. 23 December 1845, d. 29 June 1927, daughter of Ole Torkildsen Bjerland and Anna Johnsdatter (?). 7 children from his first marriage (A–G):

Siri Larsdatter Trygsland, b. 1868; m. Søren Torkildsen Røynesdal, b. 1868. Midwife. 7 children.
Lars Larsen Trygsland, b. 1869, d. 1955; m. Gunvor Tobiasdatter Refsnes, b. 1874, d. 1961. Farmer at Trygsland, Bjelland [Marnardal]. 8 children.
Guri Larsdatter Trygsland, b. 1872, d. 1872.
Salve Larsen Trygsland, b. 1874, d. 1964. Emigrated to Canada. Unmarried.
Søren Larsen Trygsland, b. 1878, d. 1967; b. Guri Ubostad, b. 1883, d. 1955. 10 children. Farmed at Ytre Homme, Bjelland [Marnardal].
Guri Trygsland, b. 1880, d. 1952. Teacher and author. Unmarried.
Anna Larsdatter Trygsland, b. 1883, d. 1970; m. Olav Ubostad, b. 1881, d. 1958. 6 children.

Sources

Breilid, Magnus. Bjelland. Gards- og ættesoge, vol. I, 1965.
Disnorge.no/gravminner (Cemetery records).
Churchbooks, Bjelland.

See also Dag T. Hoelseth's ancestry table for more genealogical details.

Trygsland links

The Trygsland Family Facebook! Join in! For descendants of Lars Larsen Trygsland (1842–1917) of Bjelland [Marnardal], Vest-Agder, Norway.

The Trygsland Family. Newspaper articles etc.

Garden Trygsland (The Trygsland farm; in Norwegian) (Wayback machine)

Digitalt Museum (many photos of various Trygsland people and farms)

Pengedoktoren (Agnes Bergo) (line B)

Ånen Trygsland (Wikipedia entry, in Norwegian) (line E)

Guri Trygsland (1880–1952) (line E) (Slektshistoriewiki article)

Dag Trygsland Hoelseth's website and blog (line E)

Ytre Homme, Bjelland

Søren Trygsland (d. 1967) and his wife Guri, née Ubostad, farmed at Ytre Homme, Bjelland. The farm is still in the Trygsland family. The website editor's grandfather Ingvald Trygsland (1913-2004), a younger son of Søren and Guri, was born here.

Monan, Ytre Homme, 1950s (?).

Other websites

Hoelseth's genealogy page

The main site