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Title: Norway: Christiania. Looking for death records post 1900
Post by: blonde399 on Monday 13 February 12 20:49 GMT (UK)

Hello.

Does anyone know if there is an on-line database I can search to track down an English person who was working in Christiania in the early 1900s. I think he may have died there as there are no records in the UK.

Many thanks.

Title: Re: Norway: Christiania. Looking for death records post 1900
Post by: janrm on Tuesday 14 February 12 14:21 GMT (UK)

Hi!

Try http://www.begravdeioslo.no for funerals.

If no luck, your next move may be the 1900 or 1910 census in http://www.digitalarkivet.no

Good Luck!


Jan, (Mr.) Norway

Title: Re: Norway: Christiania. Looking for death records post 1900
Post by: blonde399 on Tuesday 14 February 12 20:35 GMT (UK)

Hello Mr Jan

Many thanks for your help and for responding so quickly.  I have found him in the 1910 census link you posted, teaching at the universtity in Christiania, or at least I think that's what it says.  Lektor v. Universitetet overlærer Chria. Handelsgymnasium.

No sign of him when I search in the funerals list though, so I will continue to look elsewhere.

Thanks again.

Ruth

Title: Re: Norway: Christiania. Looking for death records post 1900
Post by: janrm on Wednesday 15 February 12 03:03 GMT (UK)

That's a good start!

He has two jobs by the looks of it:
lecturer at the university and headmaster at the economic college.

His address will give the parish,

Try also: http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:db_read/db/43441/
(1913 address book)

J

Title: Re: Norway: Christiania. Looking for death records post 1900
Post by: blonde399 on Wednesday 15 February 12 13:29 GMT (UK)

Hello

Yes, he's still there in 1913  at Cort Adelersgate in Kristiania.  Looks like a nice building. He would have been 59 by then (b1854), so probably thinking about retiring from teaching.  His surname was Thurgood, so if you come across him in any of your Norway research, please let me know.

Thanks for all your help.

Ruth

Title: Re: Norway: Christiania. Looking for death records post 1900
Post by: jorose on Wednesday 15 February 12 13:50 GMT (UK)

http://www.archive.org/stream/norgesuniversit00wallgoog#page/n119/mode/2up
 - there is a picture of him here.

Title: Re: Norway: Christiania. Looking for death records post 1900
Post by: blonde399 on Wednesday 15 February 12 16:16 GMT (UK)

Thank you. That's great. I haven't seen any pictures of him before. He doesn't look the sort to disappear!

Thanks.

Title: Re: Norway: Christiania. Looking for death records post 1900
Post by: janrm on Thursday 16 February 12 09:07 GMT (UK)

Hi again,

Lecturer Thurgood is still at the same address in 1918, but he appears to be gone in the next book. (1927)

His funeral should be available online, it will however require a <biiiip> of a lot of browsing to find it....!

J