FJELDSKAAL FAMILY HISTORY
Amund Haldorsen Fjellskaal was born in 1826 to Haldor Amundsen Fjellskaal and Kristi Olsdtr Stor-Urdal. In 1854 he married Kari Olsdt Fjellskaalnes. Kari was born in 1826 and died in 1886. She was the daughter of Ole Jorgensen Fjellskaalnes and Ragnhild Savres Heldal. Nils Olsen Ekanger was born in 1830 to Ole Nilsen Eikanger Eknes and Brita Olsdtr Eidshsim Esem. Nils was a policeman. In 1851 he married Ingeborg Sjursdtr Indre Eide. Ingeborg was born in 1834 to Sjur Nilsen Indre Eide and Ragnhild Larsdtr Eide. Nils died in 1900. Ingeborg died in 1922. Nils and Ingeborg are the parents of Ragnhild Fjeldskaal (1862) - below. Haldor Amundsen Fjeldskaal was born 9 January 1855, a son to Amund Haldorsen
Fjellskaal and Kari Olsdtr Fjellskaalnes. In 1886 Haldor married Ragnhild Nils
Ekanger. Ragnhild was born in 1862 to Nils Olsen Ekanger (a policeman) and Ingeborg
Sjursdtr Indre Eide . Haldor and Ragnhild had eight children - Amund (1888-1969), Karen (1890-1984), Ingeborg (1892-1906), Berthe (1894-1973), Anna Oline (1897-1991) Kristine (1899-1991), Nelly (1902-1993) and Ragna (1904-1909). Ragnhild died in 1905 (or 1906) of Typhoid Fever. Daughter Ingeborg died about three weeks later (1906) also of Typhoid. Another daughter, Ragna, died in 1909 of Pertussia (Whooping Cough with complications). She was reported to be a very intelligent girl. She was not buried for six days until medical authorities examined her and determined the cause of death. Haldor died in Norway the 28 January 1928 of heart failure. The Fjeldskaal house was in the family for about 250 years. It was moved to the House Museum (Hordamuseet at Fana, a museum for local history) in Bergen in 1965. It was purchased for 2000-3000 Kroner ($500-600). It was dismantled at Fjeldskaal and rebuilt at the Hordamuseet. It was made with wooden nails. It has a large stone fireplace with lefse griddle and huge cooking pot, two long tables and benches on each side of the main room, stove plate mounted on wall, three beds in one bedroom - beds were very short, straw for mattress, cupboard in 2nd bedroom, three bunk style beds with carving in 2nd bedroom. Fjellskaal was a small farm on an island called Osteroy (which is one of the greatest islands of the south-west coast of Norway).
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