Velcome to Morthen

Aukes homepage

After having a homepage for more than 1 year and being a genealogist for

more than 20 years I have realised that it`s time to reach out with some information to our friends and

familys in English.

This homepage serve to main goals for our family:

1. To give and achieve information about our family in Norway, Australia, England and USA.

2. To tell our relatives about our daily life - in words and in pictures.

A short presentation of our family:

Irene: (age 45). She is working at the faculty of medicine at the University of

 Oslo. This, and the activities of the 3 children, takes most of the time. Taking the

children to meetings in our "church" also takes a lot of her time. She is also very

fond of walking with her friends.

Morthen: (age 47) He is working with young students that have problems to

 fit into the normal school system in Norway - age 16 to 20. He have a lot of

hobbies such as; computers, reading, collecting stamps, coins, pins, spinning,

chess- and not to forget driving the children to chess tournaments and other

activities.

Anne Marie: (age 19). She is a talentful violin player and is playing in the

city orchestra of Drammen. She is also quite talentful with the piano and have a

lot of fun with the guitar. In the Norwegian "High school" she choosed a line

with a lot of drawing and painting. She is probably leaving us next year for more

 education somewhere else.

Erik Johannes: (11). He is the familys most entusiastic chess-player and

have already playes in the Norwegian Championship 5 times. Every wednesday

he´s playing in the local chess club with his father and other experienced players

up to age about 80. And he is absolutely not making a fool  out of himself.

He started to play the piano in september and, according to his sister, he is more

talentful than she was. He is also training a couple of times each week.

Paul Christian André: (7 ). He started to play violin last year

and seems to enjoy that instrument. In january he started to play piano and seems to

enjoy that even more, so theres a long line waiting to practice pianoplaying after school.

He is also a talentful chess-player and played his first tournament at the age of 5.

He is also training soccer every wednesday.

A place to relax and have fun.

In may 2005 we bought a little cottage a few meters away from the inland lake

named Hagatjern. This autumn we have almost finnished two bedrooms with 6

beds at the top floor. And the best of all; it´s only a ten minutes drive from home.

Our mountain paradise.

Morthens mother have a cottage in the mountains, not far away from Lillehammer,

the city of the Winter Olympics in 1994. It´s a wonderful place for winter activities

and since Morthen is the only child we can use the place as much as we like.

September update:

September was the month for the big celebrations in our family. At september 6.

it was 20 years since Irene and I was married in the local church of Konnerud.

What happened to all those days? - well we can always have a look in more than

20 BIG photoalbums. September 20. we celebrated that Paul Christian André was

7 years old. More than 20 children from his class was turning the house upside

down. At September 26. Irene was 45 years old. We celebrated with a few of

our best friends in a very quiet way - like we always do. (Pictures will come later)

October update:

On saturday october 7. Irenes parents, Ola and Berit Koppang, had a great

celebration og their 80. and 75. anniversary with more than 50 members of their

family and friends in the local church in Drammen. In addidition Berit had a small

party for her closest friends and family on her day at september 30.

Other family news in october:

Late november Erik Johannes and Paul Christian André qulified to the Norwegian

Championship in chess for juniors through the local tournament for Buskerud.

We all look forward to a nice trip to Bergen with a lot of chess, but we also want to

see the local aquarium and other facilities when we are there.

November update:

The weekend in Bergen, playing yhe Norwegian Chamionship in chess, was a good experience for

Erik Johannes

2007:

 In may i had some very exciting days doing a research on old family members who emigrated to America. The family in Norway never heard anything from them and that caused a lot of speculations about what happened to them. Now a part of the mysteri is solved. They traveled from the city of Bergen on june 22. 1882 and came to Philadelphia on july 10. The reason why I haven't found them before is that they were rigistred and citizens of Sweden on the boat British Prince. I still don't know what happened to Amund Pedersen Erlandshoug, his wife Rønnaug Johansdaughter and their two cildren Peder and Marie later. But I will! Some of their names are; Bonnie Bryn Hoffert, Kate Dinardo and Bette Patterson. (I think)

Searching for these people I found more news about my grandmothers sister too. Anna Barrusten, married to Ole Bryn, had two children; Odin and Mildred. And they have children and grandchildren alive somewhere in the United States.

Etter mange års leting og grubling fant jeg natten til 6. mai endelig et spor etter noe som har vært et stort mysterium for familien min på morssiden. Både min mor og hennes søsken fortalte ofte at deres oldeforeldre og alle barna bortsett fra deres bestemor på 1870-tallet emigrerte til USA. Bare deres bestemor valgte å ikke reise til USA. Hun hadde nemlig møtt sin fremtidige ektemann og bestemte seg for å bli igjen i Norge. Alle kan tenke seg hvilken vanskelig avgjørelse det må ha vært for henne. Det som var mystisk var at ingen mottok noe brev fra dem etter de dro fra Norge.

Foreløpig har jeg kommet fram til følgende fakta om deres utvandring; De reiste fra Bergen 22/6- 1882 og var 4 personer som reiste sammen. Amund Pedersen Erlandshoug, (27 år. født 1855, veiarbeider), Rønnug Johansdtr. (38 år, født 1844), Peder Amundsen (9 år, født 1873) og Marie Amundsdtr. (2 1/2 år, født 1880). Familien reiste med American Lines båt SS British Prince som ankom Liverpool 28. Juni. Videre gikk ferden til Philadelphia i USA, men jeg er litt usikker på når den ankom dit.