Anna Kathrine Børresen

Married in Vadsø, August 1896: on the 27th, sailor Bernt Vilhelm Børresen and Marie Cecilie Harjo.

8. Petition from Petter Barski, Masjok, for remission of old tax arrears concerning Johan and Ludvig Harjo. The following decision was made:

The taxes were reduced to 50.00 kroner, on condition that they be paid by the end of February 1913.

Copy of the electoral register

The register prepared for the Tana electoral district by the board elected under section 3 of the Parliamentary Elections Act of December 17, 1920, will be available for inspection from 8 p.m. on Wednesday, September 21, until 8 p.m. on Monday, October 10, at the following places:

John Samuelsen, Vestertana; shipping agent Seim, Smalfjord; the postmaster at Langnes; merchant Rasmussen, Norskholmen; Anders Tapio, Seida; merchant Erl. Pedersen and P. O. Breivik, Lerpollen; Per Pavelsen, Rasjok; and Petter Barski, Masjok.

Anyone who finds that they or someone else has wrongly been included in or omitted from the register, or entered with or without a note suspending voting rights, is requested to submit a complaint to the electoral board at the address below before 8 p.m. on October 10.

Complaints must be in writing and state the grounds on which they are based.

Anyone who moved into this electoral district on August 1 this year or later may be entered in its register if he or she applies to the undersigned electoral board before 8 p.m. on October 18 and establishes that the conditions for voting are met, provided that this board can notify the electoral board of the district from which the person moved before voting takes place there.

Tana Electoral Board, September 25, 1921.
Joh. Bertheussen,
Chairman of the Electoral Board.
Address: Tana.

Translation note: September 25 is the date printed beneath the notice, although this newspaper issue is dated September 19. The printed date is retained here. Words obscured by the fold in the list of locations were checked against the September 20 printing of the same notice.

Copy of the parliamentary electoral register

Prepared by the committee elected for the Tana electoral district under section 3 of the Parliamentary Elections Act of 17 December 1920. From Wednesday, 21 September next, at 8 p.m. until Monday, 10 October following, at 8 p.m., it is available for inspection at the following places:
John Samuelsen, Vestertana; shipping agent Seim, Smalfjord; the postmaster, Langnes; merchant Rasmussen, Norskholmen; Anders Tapio, Seida; merchant Erl. Pedersen and P. O. Breivik, Lerpollen; Per Pavelsen, Rasjok; Petter Barski, Masjok.

Anyone who finds that they themselves or another person have been wrongly entered, omitted, or entered with or without a note of suspension is invited to submit a complaint to the electoral board at the address below before 8 p.m. on 10 October next.

Complaints must be in writing and state the reasons on which they are based.

Anyone who moved into this electoral district on 1 August this year or later may be entered in its register if, before 8 p.m. on 18 October next, he or she submits a request to the undersigned electoral board and establishes that he or she meets the voting qualifications, and provided that the board can notify the electoral board of the district from which he or she moved of the entry before voting takes place there.

Tana electoral board, 25 September 1921.
Joh. Bertheussen,
Chairman of the electoral board.
Address: Tana.

Marriage banns
Marriage banns are announced for:
Fisherman Bernt Vilhelm Børresen and widow Alma Josefine Baumann, Vadsø.

Marriage banns are announced for fisherman Bernt Vilhelm Børresen and widow Alma Josefine Baumann, Vadsø.

Married in 1931. Vadsø: February 24. Fisherman Bernt Vilhelm Børresen and widow Alma Josefine Bauman.

Forced auction

On Thursday, March 21, 1935, at 11 a.m., and subsequently at twenty-minute intervals, auctions will be held at the Tana sheriff’s office over the following properties in Tana municipality:

“LARSENG” and “GOLBOJOK,” cadastral numbers 14 and 16, holding numbers 12 and 6, in the Tana judicial district. Plaintiff: the Kingdom of Norway’s Mortgage Bank. Legal representative: E. M. Noodt, Tana. Defendant: Petter Barski, Masjok. The grounds for auction are mortgage bonds dated March 26, 1897, registered May 11, 1897, for 2,000.00 kroner, and dated July 26, 1931, registered August 12, 1931, for 2,500.00 kroner; the outstanding amount on September 26, 1933, was 3,345.84 kroner plus 241.56 kroner in interest, totaling 3,587.40 kroner. The obligation is in default.

“STRANDE,” cadastral number 16, holding number 21, in the Tana judicial district. Plaintiff: the Kingdom of Norway’s Mortgage Bank. Legal representative: E. M. Noodt, Tana. Defendant: Ole Samuel Johansen, Boftsa. The grounds for auction are a mortgage bond dated July 15, 1930, registered September 16, 1930, originally for 1,000.00 kroner; the outstanding amount on January 15, 1934, was 983.23 kroner plus 72.10 kroner in interest, totaling 1,055.33 kroner. The obligation is in default.

“SKOGLUND,” cadastral number 17, holding number 26, in the Tana judicial district. Plaintiff: the Kingdom of Norway’s Mortgage Bank. Legal representative: E. M. Noodt, Tana. Defendant: Gundhild Pavelsen, Bonakas. The grounds for auction are a mortgage bond secured by Per Pavelsen, dated September 4, 1929, registered November 12, 1929, originally for 4,500.00 kroner; the outstanding amount on March 4, 1934, was 4,375.30 kroner plus 305.20 kroner in interest, totaling 4,680.50 kroner. The obligation is in default.

Tana sheriff’s office, January 31, 1935.
O. Bertheussen,
Deputy.

Photo memory

Do you have an interesting photograph from our recent or distant history that you would like to share with Finnmarken’s readers? Send it to Finnmarken, P.O. Box 616, 9811 Vadsø. Write down everything you know about where and when the picture was taken and who is in it. Remember to include a return address.

A family sorely tried

This photograph is actually more than a hundred years old. Its contributor, Anne-Lise Harjo, who now lives in Vadsø, tells us that it was taken as early as 1904–05.

She also tells us that it shows members of her own father’s family. Her father, Fredrik, who lived in Masjok, had not been born when the photograph was taken. Among those pictured is his brother Kristian, seated at the front. On the left sits her grandfather Ludvig Harjo, with her grandmother Anna Katrine. At the back, on the left, we see Isak Harjo and Andreas Harjo, while the girl on the right is Signe Margrethe Harjo. She married a man from Salangen in Troms and eventually had four children.

But life was not as easy for the others. Andreas and Isak both died of tuberculosis. They were only twenty-seven and twenty-eight years old.

The eldest brother, Bernhardt, who is not in the photograph, also died young, at only twenty-one, of the same disease. Andreas was married and left a wife and a daughter. Bernhardt and Isak were unmarried and died without children.

Anne-Lise Harjo believes the photograph must have been taken in Vadsø. She bases this on the fact that the family lived in Vadsø before moving to Masjok in Tana.

We have mentioned that many of the children in the family died very young. So did their father Ludvik, who died as early as 1908. At that time, the youngest son was only two years old. His wife eventually remarried, to Petter Barski from Østre Seida. They had a daughter together.

Of the people in the photograph, Signe and Kristian lived the longest. Anne-Lise’s father also died young, at only forty-seven, while his wife Anna was sixty-two when she died. She is remembered as an incredibly kind, warm and good woman.

Translation note: The newspaper’s photograph identifications and ages are retained as printed. Its final paragraph mixes generations: Anna Katrine was Ludvig’s wife; Fredrik’s wife was Gunvor. The family’s updated identifications remain in the biographies.