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Bjorge, Stager, Balbach - A Family History
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Author: nathanconroy2
People 1845 1980's
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This chronicle will explore the journeys of my maternal ancestors as they made their way from Europe to the United States by boat and to California by train and horse-drawn carriage.  Needless to say, this was a time of great transition as they Full summary
My great-great-great-grandfather Ole Christiansen Bjorge was born in Norway in 1824. At the age of twenty-one Ole purchased a farm in the town of Sande with his wife Ellen where they had five children including my great-great-grandfather Christian ...
Another great-great-great-grandfather of mine, from a separate branch of my family tree was named John Balbach. John was born in 1820 in Mergentheim, Germany, and at twenty-eight years old he immigrated to America. After a long series of short ...
Once John Balbach became settled in San Jose he married a woman named Minna Berner, also a native of Germany. According to my grandmother, Minna Berner was in fact a member of the infamous “Donner” party, who were trapped in the icy ...
Back in Norway, while my great Scandinavian ancestor Ole Chrisitiansen Bjorge and his wife were busy having five children, their friends Iver and Karen Larson were busy having eight! The Larsons were married in 1860 and rented a portion of the ...
Meanwhile in California, Minna and John Balbach had a total of nine children together, one of which was my great-great-grandfather John Balbach Jr. He in turn also married, although his wife’s name is not in the family records. They had two ...
In addition to being one of Santa Clara County’s most significant early residents, John Balbach was also an inventor and responsible for a novel improvement to the chassis used in horse-drawn wagons. The patent for this improvment has been ...
Back in Norway, the two young Scandinavian housemates of my great-great-great-grandfather Ole Bjorge’s estate, Olga Martine Larsen and Christian Olsen Bjorge soon grew up and were married on Jan. 5, 1883 in Skoger, Norway. Either Olga ...
Relatively little is known about my great-grandfather William Stager’s family. He was born in 1877, in the Kingdom of Württemberg, then an independent member of the German empire. The names of his parents have been lost in time, but we ...
Somehow William and Fred Stager made it to San Francisco where they opened the Stager Bros. Grocery Store at 101 Haight Street. In the first photograph below you can see the number “101” clearly printed on the front window. Notice the ...
The Stager line was united with that of the Balbachs when William Stager and John Balbach’s granddaughter Clara May Balbach were married on September 12 of an unknown year (although probably before 1900 as this was the year of their ...
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