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Ole Christensen Rudd was born in late spring/early summer of 1791 at Røråsen Farm on the island of Helgøya in Næs, Hedmark, Norway (now officially in Ringsaker commune).A His parents were Christen Olsen Ruud, a day laborer, and his wife Ingebor Amundsdatter Kjos.
Anne Marie, the daughter of a sailor and laborer, was born in Svelvik, Norway in 1827. She was raised with 4 brothers and 1 sister. She received her confirmation in 1842 and married sailor and carpenter Andreas Johnsen in 1855. The couple lived in Svelvik, where she gave birth to 3 sons and 3 daughters, the youngest of which, Andreas, cost Anne her life. She died in 1867 while recovering from childbirth.
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.
