{"id":7313,"date":"2019-01-22T18:57:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T17:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=7313"},"modified":"2019-01-23T10:30:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T09:30:56","slug":"52-ancestors-unusual-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/52-ancestors-unusual-name\/","title":{"rendered":"#52 ancestors: Unusual Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am one week behind with my contribution to the 52 ancestors in 52 weeks challenge. This time: An unusual name.<\/p>\n

Featured photo is from J\u00f8lster by Severin Worm-Pedersen. It is owned by Norsk Teknisk Museum. License\u00a0(CC BY 4.0)<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>Going through my database to find an unusual name I ended up with my 11th Great Grandfather Crispinus Johanneson Sandnes.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

As you can tell, it’s the name\u00a0Crispinus\u00a0<\/b>that I find interesting.<\/p>\n

Trying to find an origin to this name, the only thing I find is\u00a0Rufrius Crispinus<\/b>\u00a0who was an\u00a0equestrian\u00a0who lived during the later\u00a0Julio-Claudian dynasty (27 BC to 68 AD) (Wikipedia<\/a>). In addition,\u00a0I find\u00a0Saint Crispina<\/b>\u00a0who died December 5, 304 (Wikipedia)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Crispinus Johanneson Sandnes was born ca 1538. Where he was born is not known. One theory is that he was the son of a person called Johannes Sogning\u00a0meaning “Johannes from Sogn” and (perhaps his wife) Anne Jensdotter Sandnes. If that is so, he was probably born in J\u00f8lster, Sogn og\u00a0Fjordane county.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In any case, he must have spent time away from J\u00f8lster because in 1561 he returned to serve as a minister in the parish. He held his first service in Helgheim church June 24th that year.\u00a0 Crispinus married the local girl Kari Tollefsdotter Huus. Their firstborn son Tollef was born in ca. 1564. Their son, my 10th Great Grandfather, Anders was born in ca: 1565.<\/p>\n

The rectory in J\u00f8lster was at the \u00c5lhus farm (Joleik 1967:661) It is likely that Crispinus and wife lived here.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Crispinus was known as a pious and God fearing person. He served as the minister in J\u00f8lster until 1572 when he died January 2nd in Sandal, J\u00f8lster. He held his last service Christmas day 1571 and allegedly he told his congregation that this was his last service “because his time had come” (Joleik 1967:18).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The name Crispinus was reused by many of his descendants.<\/p>\n

Crispinus’ widow Kari Tollefsdotter married the new minister in J\u00f8lster Peder Nilsson<\/p>\n

The little I know about Crispinus comes from his Great Grandson Jens Nilsson’s diary. Snippets of this are presented in the bygdebok “Soga om J\u00f8lst (1967)” by Albert Joleik. Crispinus is included in the book\u00a0Bergens Stifts Biskoper og Pr\u00e6ster efter Reformationen.<\/em> Also, Norwegian historian Yngve Nedreb\u00f8 has made a transcription of the diary and made it available on the internet.<\/p>\n

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Astruptunet in the vicinity of Sandal, J\u00f8lster, Sogn og Fjordane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wolfmann [CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>], from Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n

Sources<\/p>\n