My earliest Junge ancestors start with, JOHANN JUNGE whom was married to ANTJE vom WESTERTEICH. Church records from Marne, Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany indicate that Johann died on Feb. 12, 1724. Church records from the same church indicate that Antje died on Jan. 25, 1724.
Johann and Antje had a son named JACOB JUNGE born on Jan. 25, 1714. These records are also from the church at Marne. Jacob was married to STINCKE JüRGENS on Oct. 24, 1738. (Marne church records). Stincke was the daughter of Christian Albrecht JüRGENS and Christina WITTEN. (I do not yet know Stincke's birth date.)
Jacob and Stincke had a son named JOHANN JUNGE born abt. 1735. (Marne church records) Johann married MAGDALENA STüHRK on May 30, 1768. (Marne church records). Magdalena's parents were Ahrend STüHRK and Margareth DREßEN and she was born on Dec. 19, 1745. (Marne church records)
Johann and Magdalena had a son named CLAUS JUNGE born Oct. 17, 1774. (Marne church records) Claus married CATHARINA RüCK on June 4, 1799. (Marne church records) Trin was born on Feb. 21, 1777(Marne church records) the daughter of Johann RüCK and Antje HASSEN.
Claus and Trin had a son named AHREND JUNGE born on July 2, 1819 at Helse. (Marne church records) Ahrend married MARGARETHA LUCS (Lucks) on July 4, 1852. (Copy of Marriage record from Burg, Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) Margaretha was born on Sept. 6, 1822 at Eggstedt (Süderhastedt Church records) to Drews LUCS and Catharina NOTTLEMAN. Ahrend died on Aug. 12, 1901 at Buchholz. (Copy of death certificate) Margaretha died on July 3, 1880. (Burg church records)
Ahrend and Margaretha had a son named KLAUS JOHANN JUNGE born on Jun 25, 1859 at Burg, Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Klaus died on Dec. 1, 1940 at Bloomfield, NE, USA. Klaus married ANNA MAGDALENA OFT on May 18, 1888 at Windbergen, Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Anna was born on Jan. 20, 1866 at Windbergen, Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany to Marx Jacob OFT and Harke Margaretha FUNK. Anna died on Feb. 19, 1943 at Omaha, NE, USA.
- IN the obituary for Magdalena
(Anna Magdalena) it says that Johann (Klaus Johann) had came to the United
States and was living here when he sent a steamship ticket in 1885 for
Magdalena to come to the United States so that they could be married. She
sent it back to Johann, upon the return of the ticket, Johann then went
back to Germany. Finally on May 18, 1888 Johann and Magdalena were married.
In 1903 they left Germany and came to the United States accompanied by
Claus Offt, Magdalena's brother. Claus himself had a family still in the
United States.
Upon arrival to the United States, the young couple along with their children settled in Knox County, NE, in a sod house a mile and a half north of Bloomfield. Later they bought a farm twenty-two miles northwest of Bloomfield, right in the middle of Indian country. It is said they lived on good terms of friendship and neighborly helpfulness with the Indians. In 1920, Johann and Magdalena, moved into town, making this their final home.
In 1922, Johann and Magdalena, made a trip to Germany for a few months of which they had wanted to so very much.
Until their deaths, they lived in town at Bloomfield and worked in town. They were both highly esteemed in the community and thought very well of.
The farm they bought and lived on when they 1st came to the United States is sometimes still refered to as The Junge place.
The first one of this family that is known of is Syprian. He seems to have come from Aurskog which is east of Oslo. He had a son, Nils Syprianson, who was the first to own Graverholt, a gaard (farm) in the County of Setskog. He must of become a man of some substance, for when he died he gave to each of his sons a gaard and to each of his daughters 700 cronrs.
Nils Syprianson was married to Ellen Marie Jorgensdatter Settsmock, and had four sons: John Heggedahl, Sven Stenby, Christian Graverholt, and Marcus Graverholt. The names of the first two sons are from the gaards which they owned. Marcus and Christian then were to have Graverholt. Graverholt was a large place, almost seven miles (English) long. It extended from the house to the Swedish border. It is valuable for the timber which is used for pulp wood.
Graverholts have lived in the house on Graverholt in a direct line from Nils Syprianson, as follows.
- Nils Syprianson --> Christian
(brother of Marcus) --> Halvor (son of Christian) --> Olaf (son of Halvor)
--> Ole (son of Olaf). The mother of Ole also lives there. (this was in
abt. 1965)
Norway has a law, Odel, that allowa a person to continue to live on a place after it is sold if he has lived on it for twenty years.Graverholt has been sold to Maths Wiel, a wealthy lumberman, as has also Stenby and Gran.
Marcus Nelson Graverholt, son of Nils Syprianson and Ellen Settsmock, married Inger Gundersdatter. She was the daughter of Gunder and Gunhild Amundson from a gaard called Engelsrud Hagen in Eidskog. The date of the marriage is not certain but maybe, 1858. To this marriage were 5 children born, Nils (Dec.21, 1859); Maren Olava (Dec. 8, 1861); Lena Emelia (Sept. 8, 1863); Gunda Marie (Sept. 24, 1865) and Johannah (Jan. 3, 1868). Inger died in maybe 1869. She is buried in Hemnes Annex, Hoiland Parish, Akershus, Norway.
After the death of his first wife, Marcus sold his share of Graverholt to his brother Christian. Marcus, then left with his small children for America and others from the community who also went. Among them was Bolette Johnson Galgeholt who had worked at Graverholt since she was nine years old, and also her twin sister.
The journey to America took three weeks and they landed at Castle Gardens in New York. Afterwards they went west and wound up at Red Wing, Minnesota, that was in May of 1870. They did not stay there long and then settled in Florence, Nebraska, for a short time before they went on to the homestead in Dixon County, Nebraska. Bolette JOHNSON became the bride of Marcus while at Florence, Nebraska. In America the Graverholts became the Nelson's .
By the fall of 1871, Marcus had gotten a homestead in Dixon County, Nebraska and moved his family there.
Marcus and Bolette did wind up having many children of their own, twelve in all - George, Elmer, Julius, Alfred, Minor, Ole, Mattie, Ida, Millie, Albert, Mathilda (who died at birth) and Melvin.
