[or-roots] Pearson

[Leslie Chapman]

Sherry; 

I thought that would be an easy search, but Family search has 914 hits for George Pearson, I am assuming this is you guy;

Oregon Deaths and Burials, 1903-1947

name:		George Pearson
gender:		Male	
death date:	19 Dec 1927
death place:	Astoria, Clatsop, Or.
age:		77
birth date:		1850
birthplace:	Arandahl, Norway	
race:		White
marital status:	Married	
father's name:	Pear Paulson
father's birthplace:	Norway
mother's name:	Unk
mother's birthplace:	Norway
indexing  number:	B54537-3
system origin:	Oregon-EASy
source film number:	1838542

This is as close as I come at Family search; darn people and their mutating given names this might be your gal;

Oregon Marriages, 1853-1935

groom's name:	Geo. Pearson
groom's birth date:	1884
groom's age:	21
bride's name:	Bertha Anderson
bride's birth date:	1865	
bride's age:	40
marriage date:	30 Dec 1905
marriage place:	Astoria, Clatsop, Oregon	
indexing  number:	M73339-2
system origin:	Oregon-EAsy
source film number:	1838394
reference number:	Pg 272

Is this your Sophie?
groom's name:	Ludwig Ogren
bride's name:	Mary Sophia Thompson
marriage date:	02 Sep 1884
marriage place:	Clatsop County, Oregon
indexing number:	M73334-3
system origin:	Oregon-EAsy
source film number:	1838938

for the back story I would have to have more info, as it occurs to me if she emigrated in 1872 this can't be your Sophie and I am not having much luck pinning them down in Oregon.

Are you aware of the Norwegian info online?

http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_reset=ja

is the home page; not sure if you can use the following, it takes you where my grandfather's family came from;

http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_fylke=2&idx_kommune=%C5s++prgj&idx_kilde=Alle&idx_periode=&idx_textsearch=&js=j

The interface has a distressing habit of reverting to Norwegian after you aske for English and I haven't entirely mastered their search engine, but if you go to family search and can find the right parish information then getting to your actual document is much easier. Of course then you have to figure out how to read it. I have several ancestors saved on my computer, but since they are on a page with a dozen or more unrelated folks I have a hard time showing them off to people if I can't remember where my person is. Especially if I have them in my family file as Roberta or some such and in the original parish register they are Berta or whatever.

Les C

--- On Sun, 11/13/11, Sherry Sanders Kimbrough <research at lanstat.com> wrote:

> From: Sherry Sanders Kimbrough <research at lanstat.com>
> Subject: [or-roots] Astoria, primarily
> To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
> Date: Sunday, November 13, 2011, 3:25 PM
> Hi list,
> 
> I  have  a  brick wall. Here is the
> information I have on my husband's
> g-g grandmother and her husband and my question:
> 
> Thora  Sophia  OLSDATTER1–2  was 
> born  in  Oct 1850 in Christiansand,
> Vest-Agder, Norway.3–6 She immigrated in 1872. She
> appeared in the census on 16 Jun 1900 in Astoria, Clatsop,
> Oregon. 
> 
> From 1900 Astoria census:
> Pearson, George, head, white Male born January 1850, 50 at
> last birthday, married 16 years born in Norway, both parents
> born in Norway, immigrated in 1870, in the US 30 years,
> naturalized, occupation: US Light tender, o months not
> employed can read, write and speak English, owns home, free
> of mortgage, house.
> Pearson, Sof??, wife, white female, born October 1850, 49
> at last birthday, married 16 years, mother of 4 children, 4
> children still living, born in Norway, parents born in
> Norway, immigrated in 1872, 28 years in the US, can read,
> write and speak English
> 
> Thora   Sophia   was   married 
> <?>  before and had two daughters: one
> <Mathilda> in
> Connecticut  1873 and my husband's g-grandmother
> <Sophie> in Ohio 1876.  Both moved with
> her  to  Astoria and married there. 
> She  had other children, too, Mabel and George with
> Pearson.
> 
> My  question  is  this: I have a lot of
> information on George from the
> newspapers  and  wills  for both he and
> Thora, but can't figure out if
> they  married in Astoria or elsewhere. Trying to find
> Thompson, who is
> the  natural grandfather, but no clue where to begin.
> Can't find birth
> records  for  the  girls.  Have 
> checked  a number of Thompsons at the
> Archives  for  the period but no one fits. I'm
> thinking the lighthouse
> service may be the clue but no records found in DC.
> 
> Any other ideas about tracing this couple? Any help
> appreciated!
> 
>  Sherry Kimbrough
>  Lake Stevens, WA
>