Katrine Aleksandersdatter Fæster1

F, b. 1684, d. 1760
Relationship7th great-grandmother of Barbara Joyce Zanzig
ChartsAlma Henden's Ancestors
     Katrine Aleksandersdatter Fæster was born in 1684 at Bergen, Bergen, NorwayB,G.2,3

     Katrine Aleksandersdatter Fæster married Hans Erichson Rygg say 1703.1
     Katrine Aleksandersdatter Fæster died in 1760 at Rygg, Gimmestad, Gloppen, Sogn og Fjordane, NorwayB,G.1
     The first Fæster in Norway seems to be Dirich Fester from Lübeck in Germany who arrived Bergen in mid 1600, where he died 1675. His descendents were merchants at Vågsberget at Våge close to Måløy in Nordfjord. These where really upper class people.4

Family

Hans Erichson Rygg b. c 1670, d. 1726
Children
Last Edited15 Apr 2015

Citations

  1. [S837] Per Sandal Soga om Gloppen og Breim, Gardar og ætter (Farms and families) Band I and II. Gimmestad og Hyen sokn, 3 (Sandane, Norway: Sparebanken Sogn og Fjordane Gloppen, 1992), p. 119. Hereinafter cited as Gloppen bygdebok vol. 3.
  2. [S837] Per Sandal Soga om Gloppen og Breim, Gardar og ætter (Farms and families) Band I and II. Gimmestad og Hyen sokn, 3 (Sandane, Norway: Sparebanken Sogn og Fjordane Gloppen, 1992), p. 119. This implies but does not state she was born at Vågsberget. Hereinafter cited as Gloppen bygdebok vol. 3.
  3. [S849] Tor Kvien, "Email: Kvien, 2005 09 23, "Re: Henden Ancestors chart"," e-mail message from e-mail address (Ski, Norway) to Barbara Zanzig, 23 Sep 2005, Fester.pdf attachment. Hereinafter cited as "Fæster family."
  4. [S849] Tor Kvien, "Email: Kvien, 2005 09 23, "Re: Henden Ancestors chart"," e-mail message from e-mail address (Ski, Norway) to Barbara Zanzig, 23 Sep 2005. Hereinafter cited as "Fæster family."
  5. [S458] Norway, Sogn og Fjordane, 1686-1711 Kirkebok for Presten Gloppen vol. 1, Microfilmed images (Salt Lake City, UT: Family History Library, 1961), FHL film #0126401 item 1.