An early case of crossdressing?
I was pondering over this picture, trying to figure out who these persons were. I had been exchanging emails with two of my late father’s cousins. It was the general agreement in the family that the man was my G-G-Grandfather Einar Nilsen Løvoll (1846-1939). His first wife Petrine Lassesdatter Vik (b.1856) died in 1894. Einar married Ane Eline Martinusdatter Lande (1857 – 1935) a few years later and together they had two sons. Based on the “fact” that the woman had a little girl on her lap I figured that this had to be Petrine and that the picture was taken about 1891.
So far, so good. But, if this was Einar and Petrine; why was only four of their six children in the picture? I was thinking that their oldest sons Nils Matias (b. 1874) had already moved out. This still didn’t add up. If the two children in the back were Ludvik (b.1876) and Mathea (my Great grandmother b. 1880), the boy on Einar’s lap was Mikal Edvard (b. 1884) and the girl on Petrine’s lap was Olianna (b. 1890): Where was Petra Einara (b. 1887)??
