Tore Toreson Selland

Tore Toreson Selland

Confirmed

Father of Mons Selland · 1820–1912, Røldal, Norway

Born

3 June 1820

Died

5 June 1912

Married

Ingebjørg Ivarsdatter Selland

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Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the father of Mons Selland. The Røldal baptism register for 1868, read from the image, enters Mons, born 9 May and baptised 21 June 1868, in wedlock, as the son of the farmer Thore Thoresen Selland and Ingeborg Ivarsdatter S74. FamilySearch’s South Dakota naturalization and Minnesota death indexes give the American Mons Selland the same exact birth date, 9 May 1868, with the patronymic Thorsen or Torson, so the Røldal child is Kristin’s ancestor S1078

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1820

Born 3 June 1820 at Bakkene, a holding under the Selland farm in Røldal, Hordaland, and baptised 1 July 1820, son of the farmer Tore Monsen and Ingebor Ormsdatter, by the Røldal register of births S76. A second Thore born at Røldal in 1820, to Helje Hellegsen of Suve, is a different child. His parents have no card yet; they are named on the Selland line page

Death1912

Died 5 June 1912 at Selland and was buried on 12 June, aged 91, by the Røldal burial register S77. The clerk wrote his patronymic there as Ivarsson, his wife’s; the 1820 and 1868 baptisms make him Toreson, and the slip is recorded as a slip

Record1868

The registers spell him Thore Thoresen in 1868 and Tore in 1912; the farm name Selland travels with the address. The 4 June birth that circulates online is not on any record read; the register gives 3 June

Census1875

🆕 In the census of 31 December 1875 he is Thore Thorsen, born 1820, a farmer who owned his land and also worked as a building carpenter and smith, with his wife Engeborg, their son Mons and three other children Confirmed S1100

Census1910

🆕 In the census of 1 December 1910 he is Tore T. Selland, 90, a retired farmer living on his annuity at Selland, born 3 June 1820

the date of the 1820 baptism register — with his wife Ingeborg Confirmed S1111

Census1891

🆕 In the census of 1 January 1891 he is Tor Torsen, born 1820 at Røldal, married, the head of his household and a farmer who owned his land, enumerated in Suldal district with his wife Ingeborg Confirmed S1117

Census1865

🆕 In the census of 31 December 1865 he is Thore Thorsen, 46, a farmer and freeholder in Røldal, with his wife Ingeborg, 35, and their sons Thore, 14, and Iver, 11 Confirmed S1126. In the census of 3 December 1900 he is Tore T. Selland, born 1820 at Røldal, a farmer living on a farm annuity, in Suldal with his wife Ingeborg S1127.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Marriage1889

Husband of Ingebjørg Ivarsdatter Selland. Father of Mons Selland, who left Røldal for Dakota in 1889 S75

Marriage1847

🆕 Banns were read on 16, 24 and 30 May 1847 for the bachelor Thor Thorsen Selland, 27, and the maid Ingeborg Ivarsdatter Hagerland, 16, with Osmund Selland among the sponsors Confirmed S1112. The wedding-date column is blank, so the marriage itself is not dated on the page

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Retrieved from the UNT Libraries' Portal to Texas History, or — for the University of Texas Cactus yearbooks — from Texas ScholarWorks. Each thumbnail opens the full page scan, which can also be downloaded. The quoted text is the OCR that ships with the scan, copied verbatim; the page image is the authority.

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Røldal parish register (ministerialbok), Hordaland, Norway — page p. 7, 1820, no. 29

Parish register · 1820 · page page 7, entry no. 29

29 | 1820, 3die Juni | Thore | 1820, 1ste Julii | gaardmand Tore Monsen og Ingebor Ormsdatter, Bakkene

Confirmed because read by eye from the full-resolution scan. Entry no. 29 gives Thore born 3 June 1820 at Bakkene, baptised 1 July 1820, to gaardmand Tore Monsen and Ingebor Ormsdatter. A son of Tore is Tore-son, which matches the 1868 baptism's 'Thore Thoresen Selland'; Bakkene is a holding under the Selland farm; and the mother matches Ingebjørg Ormsdatter Prestegård already on the tree. Entry no. 27 on the SAME page is a different Thore born 1820, to Helje Hellegsen of Suve — not this man.

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Røldal parish register (ministerialbok), Hordaland, Norway — page folio 199, 1912

Parish register · 1912 · page folio 199, 1912

3 | 5/6 | 12/6 | Tore … Selland | Selland | 1820 | Selland · 2 | 9/5 | 18/5 | Ingebjørg Ivarsd. Selland | Selland | 1831 | Sauda

Confirmed because read by eye from the full-resolution scan. Men's sequence no. 3: died 5 June 1912, buried 12 June, of Selland, born 1820 at Selland. Women's sequence no. 2: died 9 May 1912, buried 18 May, Ingebjørg Ivarsdatter Selland, of Selland, born 1831 at Sauda. Both match the dates already carried on the tree from an online source, which now have a record behind them. CAUTION: the printed headings are an Indflyttede (moved-in) form, overwritten by hand as death date “burial date” birthplace — read the manuscript headings. The clerk also wrote the husband's patronymic as Ivarsson, which is his wife's; the 1868 and 1820 baptisms both make him Toreson, and Ivarsson would make the couple siblings.

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Transcribed by eye from the full-resolution scan, not from an index entry or an OCR sidecar. Gothic-hand Norwegian parish registers are not OCR'd; where a word could not be read it is reported as unread rather than guessed. Spelling is the register's own — Selland is a farm name, so it travels with the address.

In the record Generation 6 — Kristin's 3rd-great-grandparents

1. S74Røldal parish register — baptisms, 1868. Entry no. 7: born 9 May 1868, baptised 21 June 1868, child Mons, ægte (in wedlock); father Gbr. (farmer) Thore Thoresen Selland, mother Ingeborg Ivarsdatter. A primary church record, read by eye from the full-resolution scan rather than from an index or an OCR sidecar. Four of the six named witnesses are Lone and Hegerland people, which is what makes the Julia Lone lead worth chasing. Rødal is in Hordaland, at the head of the Hardanger valleys; Selland is the farm, not the family name.
2. S75Røldal parish register — G. Udflyttede (those moved out), folio 203, year 1889. Entry no. 3: Mons Thorsen Selland, birth year 1868, destination "Dakota, Amerika", certificates issued for birth, baptism and confirmation. Read by eye at full resolution. The register names no ship, no port and no sailing date — the Naar udflyttet column carries the bare year. A Norwegian out-migration entry is a clerical hand-off between parishes, not a passenger list, and it should not be expected to yield a crossing. The birth year here and the birth date in S74 are the same man.
3. S76Røldal parish register — births (Fødte Mandkjøn), page 7, 1820. Entry no. 29: Thore, born 3 June 1820 at Bakkene, baptised 1 July 1820; father gaardmand Tore Monsen, mother Ingebor Ormsdatter. Read by eye. A second Thore was born in Røldal in 1820 — entry no. 27, to Helje Hellegsen of Suve — and the two are separated on three axes at once: the patronymic (a son of Tore is Toreson), the farm (Bakkene is a holding under Selland; the other is Suve), and the mother's name, which matches the Ingebjørg Ormsdatter Prestegård already on this page. ⚠ This register gives 3 June; the pedigree above long carried 4 June from an online tree. The register is primary and has been followed.
4. S77Røldal parish register — burials, folio 199, 1912. Men's sequence no. 3: died 5 June 1912, buried 12 June, Tore … Selland, of Selland, born 1820 at Selland. Women's sequence no. 2: died 9 May 1912, buried 18 May, Ingebjørg Ivarsdatter Selland, of Selland, born 1831 at Sauda. Read by eye. The printed column headings are wrong for this content — the clerk reused an Indflyttede (moved-in) form and overwrote the headings by hand as death date, burial date and birthplace; read the manuscript headings or every column shifts meaning. ⚠ The clerk also wrote the husband's patronymic as Ivarsson, which is his wife's. The 1868 baptism (S74) calls him Thoresen and the 1820 baptism (S76) gives his father as Tore Monsen, so Toreson is correct; and were Ivarsson right, he and his wife would be brother and sister. Recorded as a clerical slip, not a competing fact, so that the next reader of that image knows it was looked at.
5. S1078FamilySearch indexes for the emigrant Mons Selland. South Dakota, County Naturalization Records, Deuel County, 1914: Mons Thorsen (Thorson) Selland, born 9 May 1868, Bergen, Norway, wife Julia (1:1:6C55-2RZM; image 3:1:3QS7-99WY-4DQT not read); Minnesota death index: Mons Torson Selland, born 9 May 1868, died 10 November 1964 (1:1:V4ZX-RK9). Index entries, checked 30 September 2026. Cited for identity only: the exact birth date and the patronymic Thorsen tie the man on the South Dakota farm to the Røldal baptism of 1868 [S74]. Neither index names his parents; the death date is an index, not a read certificate, and is not carried on his card as fact.
6. S11001875 Norway Census — Røldal, household of Thore Thorsen. Ancestry record 1138042. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed Census of 31 December 1875: Thore Thorsen, head, married, farmer and owner, building carpenter and smith, born 1820 in Røldal; Engeborg Iversdtr, his wife, born 1831 at Søvde, Sands parish; their children Anders Thorsen, 1857, helping his father, Engeborg Thorsdtr, 1865, Mons Thorsen, 1868, and Engeborg Thorsdtr, 1873, all born in Røldal; a servant, two visitors from Suldal, and a lodger household. The farm name is not on this spread. The index reads her birthplace as “Sósde”; the image has Søvde. Two daughters named Engeborg, 1865 and 1873, are both listed.
7. S11111910 Norway Census — Røldal, Selland, household 2, 1 December 1910. Ancestry record 58396. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 30 September 2026. Confirmed Tore T. Selland, head, married, føderaadsmand (retired farmer on a life annuity), born 3 June 1820 in the district; Ingeborg Selland, wife, born 15 March 1831. One image, indexed twice: Ancestry record 58397 is the same household under Ingeborg.
8. S1112Norway, Church Records, 1812–1938 — register of marriages (Copulerede), 1847, folio 207, entry no. 2. Ancestry record 17258496. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 30 September 2026. Confirmed Banns read 16, 24 and 30 May 1847 for the bachelor Thor Thorsen Selland, 27, and the maid Ingeborg Ivarsdatter Hagerland, 16; sponsors Jørgen Lone (reading uncertain) and Osmund Selland. The wedding-date column is blank, so the page dates the banns, not the wedding. The parish is not written on the page; it comes from the collection’s catalogue. The index reads her as Iversdatter Hegerland; the image has Ivarsdatter Hagerland.
9. S11171891 Census of Norway — Suldal herred, counting district 8, household list 55, person slip 1. Ancestry record 104510. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 30 September 2026. Confirmed Taken 1 January 1891: Tor Torsen, male, head of household, married, born 1820 at Røldal, a farmer who owned his land; slip 2 of the same household is his wife Ingeborg Ivarsdatter, born 1831. No children are on these two slips.
10. S11261865 Census of Norway — Røldal parish, Haare and Tjønn school district, farm no. 89 (31 December 1865). Ancestry record 963829. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 30 September 2026. Confirmed Thore Thorsen, head of household, farmer and freeholder, married, 46, born Røldal; Ingeborg Iversdatter, his wife, married, 35, born Søvde parish, Sand; their sons Thore Thorsen, 14, and Iver Thoresen, 11, both born Røldal. The page ends with Iver. The online index adds an Anders Thoresen, who must be on the next page, which has not been read. The district name in the header is partly illegible.
11. S11271900 Census of Norway — Suldal, personal list (3 December 1900). Ancestry record 1458853. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 30 September 2026. Confirmed Tore T. Selland, head, married, farmer and pensioner on a farm annuity (føderaad), born 1820, Røldal; Ingeborg I. Selland “the elder”, his wife, married, born 1831, Søvde. They are a household of two. The online index reads her birthplace as Romania; the image has “Rom”, an abbreviation for the county, written above Søvde. “The elder” suggests a younger Ingeborg Selland lived nearby.