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| Jakob G OugendalIt was Gunder,s youngest son Jakob Gundersen, born in 1831, who kept the family at Åvendal when he got the deed on Gunder's farm in January 1865. The official records that year shows that on the farm he held 6 cattle, 18 sheep, one pig and a horse. He used 1/8 barrel of barley, 2,5 barrels of wheat and 2 barrels potatoes when sowing at spring. The fact that there was a horse on the farm should indicate a certain wealth, as it was far from common in those days. Even around 1900 many farms did not have one of their own, and the farmers would carry the fertilising animal-doings to their fields in a kind of wooden basket made out of birch, called a "Kjipe". (Nowadays they are popular amongst people interested in nostalgia, as living-room decorations)Jakob married 24 year old Ingeborg Lindland in 1862, and together they had six children. The 5th of February 1886 Jakob fell from the barn at Åvendal, breaking his neck, and he died from the injuries two days later. His wife Ingeborg lived well into her eighties and stayed with her youngest son Bernt at Vasskaret the last years she lived. Another tragedy struck in November 1888, when Jakob and Ingeborg's two youngest children, Gurine and Johan, aged only 12 and 9, drowned in a pond near Gyland as they went through the thin ice. A third child, from Refsland, also died in the accident.
 No pictures of Jakob is known to exist, but on this picture from around 1904 his wife Ingeborg stands on the far right. Other persons on the picture is (from left to right) Hans Kristian (grandchild), Gunder J Ougendal (son), Gunda (granddaughter), Ingeborg (daughter in law), Georg and Jakob (grandsons). |
