Cort Jørgensen Coldevey

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: byfoged i Tønsberg
• Immigration: 1600, Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway; Arrived in Norway around 1600.

Notes:

Around the year 1600, maybe a little before, Cort Jørgensen Coldevei immigrated to Norway. His descendants settled in several places in Norway, first in Tønsberg, later in central and northern Norway.

It is unknown where the family came from, but accepted that they immigrated from Denmark in the late 1500-century, but pretty much came from northern Germany.

The first period in Tonsberg
Cort Coldevei immigrant referred to Tønsberg around 1600. He was followed probably by brothers Jochum and Niels mentioned sporadically in Tønsberg contemporary sources. Cort Coldeveis immigration to Norway coincided with a period of prosperity for Tonsberg, mainly driven by a surge in timber trade and exports. Exports went mainly to Germany, Scotland, and increasingly to the Netherlands, whose low-lying cities demanded pilottering of the houses. For example. Amsterdam is said to have been built on Norwegian timber. Cort Coldevei found his career as a merchant and captain, and he mentioned several times in Tønsberg customs Register. in 1611 when he performs a boat with 10 lasts of salt fish and timber, and when Oluf Lauritsen years after sailing his boat with timber to Rostock. In 1624 founded his own ship, as the following quote from the Norwegian National-Registrants shows [Volume V, p 439]:
Cort Coldewers Grant got on a ship to use, not for strangers to Sold.
C. IV. G. ow, we graciously gardens exclude and granted this Letter Shows Cort Coldewers, Citizen and inhabitant udi our Kjøbsted Tunsberg that the ship which he now must have udi Building may be used and thus seek his nourishment and Bjering where desires meet him but he must commit not to Selge or dispose of any strangers. Sæm Eker on October 7, 1624. R IV. 337th Depr. VII. 163rd

Cort Coldevei be appointed bailiff in Tønsberg and include inter alia in shell accounts in 1627. He then rises up the social ladder and become good marriage, namely Anne George, a daughter of Prime Minister in Tønsberg Jorgen Lauritssøn. With her get Cort Coldevei least seven children, three sons, who are trading citizens in Tønsberg. Especially his sons George and Olufsen continues the family's prosperity. They married into local official genera and achieves both becoming mayors in Tønsberg in the middle of the 1600s.
Jorgen Coldevey is a successful merchant and skipper. Like other wealthy people, he puts his money in land, and in 1657 compiled his jordtilligende to 27 ½ hundred-weight, over 10% of tønsbergborgernes total land freight. In 1648, he is alderman, and from 1651 to 1656 (possibly to 1658) he is the mayor of the city beside the mighty Anders Madsen. Jorgen Coldevey marries Johanna Isaac daughter Falck, she also a solid local citizen and official family.

One of Mayor George Coldeveys sons Isach Jorgensen Coldevey , was according to some sources priest in Copenhagen. He appears not to Wiberg's pastor story, and when one Isaac Jørgenssøn Coldevin, Tønsberg, in 1693 disposes both Stavnum-farms in the sticks Ivar Franssøn, one must assume that he hardly has moved far from his hometown. It made ??some of his descendants in return. The eldest son George (Georg) Coldevin (1687-1754) was colonel and settled in the frost in Nordtrøndelag. One of his activities was to draw cards, and some of them are today in the University Library in Trondheim, including the 'Carte of Bergen, Trundhiems and North Highlands Districter' and 'Charte over Fraastenske Compagnie-District . He was the progenitor of what one might call an officer genus Coldevin . Another son, Morten Isachsen Coldevin (1694-1735), was captain in Tønsberg in 1720, but moved as a brother of Nordtrøndelag. He was given including son Isach Jorgen Coldevin (1724-93) who was ancestor of the genus Dønnes Coldevin .

Cort married Anna Jørgensdatter in 1584 in Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway. Anna was born in 1563 in Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jørgen Cortsen Coldevey was born in 1586 in , Uppsala, Sweden; died on 16 Jan 1658 in Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway.
2. Oluf Cortsen Coldevey was born in 1588 in Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway; died in 1669 in Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway.
3. Jochum Cortsen Coldevey was born in 1590 in Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway; died in 1669 in Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway.
4. Anna Cortsdatter Coldevey was born in 1593 in Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway.
5. Alhed Cortsdatter Coldevey was born in 1600 in Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway; died on 10 Jul 1690 in Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway.