A Story of Anders Olson's grandmother "Ingebord Hansdotter Skeie"

 The following is a translation from the original Norwegian on the Blog:  "Heggtun"  

This family story is about Anders Olson's grandmother, Ingebord Hansdotter Skeie (His dad's mother) .  The story  begins with her first husband, Tormod  Christophersen Sundsteigen (We descend from her 2nd husband...Olav Jonsson)  

"In 1817, Tormod Christophersen Sundsteigen acquired two pieces of property from Judge Bing at Undarheim.  This was the first homestead of the magistrate's guard. The homestead was called Kalvatræ and the property extended down to the boathouse with a beautiful view of the shoreline.  

Tormod was married  to Ingeborg Hansdotter Skeie from Rosendal and they had a son named Christopher when they got the land at Kalvatræ.  Later their sons Hans and Knut were born.

At Kalvatræ, the farm family built a timber and glass shed with a canopy with a hatch and extended bulkhead.  The  stove warmed them up; with a single story tile stove.  Both glass and tiles were the fashion at that time.  They had a timber pole shed covered with fists and slab.  

The homesteader had to work 12 working days a year, four in the sowing, four in the mowing and four when the grain was harvested.  In addition he was to work for the registrar for "acceptable payment" and, among other things,  he shuttled around on his travels. (?)   The judge used to have three helmsmen (helmsman a person who steers a ship or boat) and they probably used a six-wheeler.  The rowed the scribe around the whole of Sunnhordland and other places.  When the traveled to Bergen, they rowe3d through Lukksund to Os, and then from there would ride a horse on to Bergen.  

Tormod was a carpenter and it's  likely that he was part of the work team that built the new magistrate's courtyard in 1816.  The courtyard was on the north side of Undarheimshaugen.  Here, among other things, a large dwelling house and a modern barn were built with two stories.   Today it is part of Lundaloa.  

Tormod died in 1820 at the young age of 34.   In the shift after him, was listed a carpenter's coffin, was placed a long planer, ox planer, two plain planers, round planer, three list planer, ax, hand saw, band knife, table layer, hub and rake hub. 

Ingeborg married a couple of years later to Olav Jonsson from Valo.  They lived at
Kalvatræ and had three children together.  The first of these was named Tormod (Anders' father).  He was named after the first head of the household.    The second child  was named after his grandfather Jon and the third child Elizabeth, probably  named after the grandmother.  

Rostbo, Jostein. “Tormod Og Ingeborg På Kalvatræ.” Heggtun, 2006, jrostbo.blogspot.com/.