Parents: Probable confirm or correct → Mons Torsen and Torbiør Biørnsdatter, cotters with land at Bakkene. The 1801 census, read from the image, enters at Bakkene “Mons Torsen”, 58,
huusmand med jord, his wife “Torbiør Biørns Datter”, 50 or 52, and their children “Tor Monsen”, 19 and unmarried, and Biørn, 5
S1694; nineteen years later Tore Monsen is the farmer at Bakkene
S76. The Røldal register, read from the images, has the same couple as “Mons og Torbiør Sellands” at the baptisms of a daughter Torbiør in 1791 and of Biørn on 2 July 1796, the farm name Tore bears at his marriage in 1807
S1695. The daughter is probably the “Torbiør Mons Dat: Selland” confirmed at Røldal in 1805, at about fourteen, so the register still styles the family of Bakkene “Selland” four years after the census
S1764. A “Torbjør Bakken”, 67, buried on 20 July 1816, is probably his mother
S1695. The archive’s index of the 1801 census has no other Tor Monsen in Suldal parish, Røldal included. Tore and his wife were at Bakkene themselves by 1 October 1808, when a daughter of “Tore og Ingeborg Bakkenes” was baptised Torbiør, the name of the wife in the census household, with Thore Botnen as first sponsor, as at the baptisms of 1791 and 1796
S1696. By the census ages Mons was born about 1742–43 and Torbiør about 1749–51. What is weak: only the census names his father; the confirmation list of 1805 and the 1808 entry support the link without naming him; the archive’s index of the Røldal burials from 1817 to 1856 has no Mons Torsen at Bakkene or Selland, so his death is not found; its age puts Tore’s birth about 1781–82, three years later than his age at burial does; the Røldal register has no entries for 1781 to 1789, so his baptism cannot be read there; and the search for a second Tor Monsen was made in the index, not on the census pages