{"id":8003,"date":"2020-02-08T07:32:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T06:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=8003"},"modified":"2020-02-07T15:36:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:36:04","slug":"a-new-life-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/a-new-life-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"A new life in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: start;\">When we speak about the Norwegian emigration, we tend to think that they all went to the United States of America. This is not true and, as we shall learn in this article, one of the places they went to was New Zealand.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: start;\"><strong>by Lois Potaka<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Featured photo Abandoned farm building near Haitape NZ <a title=\"via Wikimedia Commons\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Iconic_old_house,_south_of_Taihape.JPG\">PhilBeeNZ<\/a> [<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\">CC BY-SA<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">EMIL HANSEN was the third child of JOHAN and MAREN Hansen, and he was born in Borge&nbsp; July 13 and baptized September 19. 1869. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>SAO, Borge prestekontor Kirkeb\u00f8ker, F\/Fa\/L0006: Parish register (official) no. I 6, 1861-1874, p. 67<br \/>\nQuick link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalarkivet.no\/kb20060404040321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.digitalarkivet.no\/kb20060404040321<\/a>&nbsp;<em>A note added to his birth record states &#8220;Probably dead in America&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nHere is Emil and his family in the census 1875 for Borge parish, \u00d8stfold county. His father Johan is a worker at the sawmill in Fredrikstad.<br \/>\nFT 1875 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalarkivet.no\/census\/person\/pf01052009001636\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.digitalarkivet.no\/census\/person\/pf01052009001636<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><br \/>\nEmil&#8217;s mother MAREN died in 1875<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">SAO, Borge prestekontor Kirkeb\u00f8ker, F\/Fa\/L0007: Parish register (official) no. I 7, 1875-1886, p. 303<br \/>\nQuick link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalarkivet.no\/kb20060905010413\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.digitalarkivet.no\/kb20060905010413<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: start;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It looks like his father JOHAN had a child with Britta Nedsdtr, then later married again. The second wife was ELVINE SOPHIE LARSDATTER and they had 10 more children<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>SAO, Borge prestekontor Kirkeb\u00f8ker, F\/Fa\/L0007: Parish register (official) no. I 7, 1875-1886, p. 252<br \/>\nQuick link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalarkivet.no\/kb20060905010374\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.digitalarkivet.no\/kb20060905010374<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8004\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/a-new-life-in-new-zealand\/emil\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Emil.jpg?fit=221%2C359&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"221,359\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Emil\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Emil.jpg?fit=221%2C359&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8004\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Emil.jpg?resize=289%2C469&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Emil.jpg?w=221&amp;ssl=1 221w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinroe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Emil.jpg?resize=185%2C300&amp;ssl=1 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>EMIL left home when he was 14 years old, because of his stepmother, and it is thought that he left, possibly on his uncle&#8217;s boat from Bergen. This would be around 1883, I think. He jumped ship in INVERCARGILL, SOUTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND sometime before 1903. He had to hide for quite a while and was scared they would come and get him. He may have sailed around England and America as crew, or deckhand. There is no way we can find out what he did and where he traveled between 1883 and 1903. He worked in the bush and timber-mills, in the South Island, and that was where he met MABEL JANE HARDING and married her in 1903. They had 9 children, 1 died at birth, and his son EMIL was killed when he was 9 years old.<\/p>\n<p>He was naturalized in 1911 in Wellington. Three of his children are still alive today, ROSE MABEL, DOUGLAS, and MYRTLE LENORA. (Myrtle is my mother). Emil and Mabel lived in Invercargill, but around 1905 they moved to the North Island NZ, to a small place called UTIKU, near TAIHAPE. We are not sure whether they worked at any other small township on their way up, but it would have been a very long journey in those days. Utiku was a small township established in the 1890s, and it was a place that had 16 saw-mills with plenty of work for years to come. When they arrived in Utiku, there were some 120 houses and 42 smallholdings. A school with a growing school role that reached 130 by 1908. He worked in the bush, felling trees, and helped build bridges and the Main Trunk Railway line. Picnics, dances, and sports days were held regularly, mainly rugby and cricket being played. The family took part in most of these, and Emil&#8217;s sons were good rugby players and his daughters played hockey and were good swimmers. 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( I think that was the year of the flu epidemic). So Emil passed away on 2<sup>nd<\/sup>&nbsp;October 1941 in TAIHAPE NZ, his family in Norway not knowing where he went, or what his life was like. Mabel passed away on 10<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;September 1956.<\/p>\n<p>My Mum tells me he had a very good life and they were a happy family. His 4 sons were true VIKINGS, all big strong, handsome men. Emil used to play the piano accordion, and as I was born 3 months before he died, maybe this is why Norwegian music touches at my heart-strings, he used to sit and play to me my Mum says. Emil was known as Emil Johansen in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><em>A big thanks to my long time friend Lois for sharing the interesting and touching story of her grandfather. Even though Emil never had any contact with Norway after he left, Lois tells me she has connected with living relatives in \u00d8stfold county.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have a story that you would like to share? 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