Titel: Wallen - Help Required
Skrivet av: Chris Bingefors skrivet 2010-04-23, 21:42
She is listed as Erika Charlotte Vollen, traveling to New Zealand July 20, 1872 from Kristiania (Oslo). Her home then is in Oslo, so she either is Norwegian or has immigrated to Norway before that date. The first comprehensive searchable census is 1880 in Sweden so we can´t use that. She travels with Martin and Antoinette Fredriksen from Sunnmøre or at least with the same contingent. She has a free ticket for some reason. Had she come straight from Sweden her Swedish home parish would have been listed.
The name Wallen (or Wallin?) is not extremely common in Sweden (but uncommon in Norway), however common enough to make a search difficult. She is not in the Emibas CD database, but that is not complete. I have tried the Norwegian census of 1865, but no luck so she may have come from Sweden between 1865 and 1872.
There is a book on Swedes in New Zealand which I don´t have, but maybe someone can do a look-up?