The Lowe Family Tree

Maren Christensdatter Wear

Gullik Petersen Loe

Gullik was born 26 Jan 1794 on Hære Farm in Øvre Eiker, Norway to a crofter father who rented farmland to get by. The family moved to the mining town of Konnerud where Gullik spent his teen years. Here his father gave him ownership of a small parcel of land named Loe [pronounced loo] near his father's properties of Veierud and Knatholt. Gullik married his wife Maren Christensdatter Wear and lived here for at least 7 years. Family stories say his inability to manage money and a pension for drinking and card playing bankrupted the family, forcing them off the Loe property and out of town. It was the shame of his mother-in-law that bailed him out and saved the family. Gullik's own shame of the situation seemed to straighten him out and the carpenter bought Sondre Myhre farm in Svelvik where they spent the next 20 years before Gullik died in 1856.

Andrine Marie Mortensdatter

Andrine was born in the Fiskum parish area of Eiker, Norway to a single mother. By 15 she had moved to the city of Drammen where she married Ole at the age of 24. He was from Rogaland and they returned there after marriage where she raised their 3 children in Kopervik until he died in 1862. Andrine remarried 2 years later to husband Tore and they continued to live in Kopervik. Soon after we lose track of Andrine and don't know about the rest of her life.

Anne Olsdatter Lindboe

Born to a farmer at Loftstua Farm under Landsverk in Sandsvær, Norway. She married Hans Jorgen Pettersen at 20 and they raised 12 children together on Haugen farm in Sandsvær before relocating to Visnes, Rogaland by the age of 53. She lived at Visnes until her husband died in 1902 and soon after we lose track of Anne as she enters her 80s.

Hans Jorgen Pettersen Laugerud

Born to a farmer at Øvre Laugerud Farm in Sandsvær, Norway, Hans was raised on Laugerud until he purchased Haugen farm under Landsverk in Sandsvær at 20. He married Anne Lindboe and they raised 12 children together before relocating to Visnes, Rogaland by the age of 52. There Hans worked in the copper mines, helping to mine the copper that was used to make the Statue of Liberty. He passed away in Visnes at 79.

Andreas Johnsen

Andreas was born to a sailor/carpenter father in northern Svelvik in 1830. He was 1 of 8 children, including a half-sister and only the second boy of the house. His younger sister died when he was 9, his father passed away at 11, and an older sister when he was 14. Andreas took to the sea as a sailor and while home married Anne Marie Ruud in 1855. The couple would have 6 children before Anne's untimely death in 1867. Andreas stopped sailing and took up carpentry at the shipyard full time when he remarried Laura Anderson. They had a son in 1873, but Laura also died the following year. Andreas died in Svelvik in 1888 at the age of 58.

Mathea Gulliksdatter Loe

Thorvald Haugen

Thorvald Haugen was born Torvald Hansen on 16 Dec 1864 in Sandsvær, Buskerud, Norway to parents Hans Jorgen Petersen Haugen and Anne Olsdatter.1 The family lived at the northern end of Hedenstad, Sandsvær on the Haugen farm in what was the Saggrænden and Medheien school district.2 Sandsvær has since been incorporated into the city of Kongsberg and is south of the city center.