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Morten Henrik Petersen Von Fyren[1]

Male 1711 - 1765  (54 years)


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  • Name Morten Henrik Petersen Von Fyren 
    Birth 1711  Hviding, Kvitsøy, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Christening 5 Feb 1711  Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 9 Jun 1765  Hviding, Kvitsøy, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Burial 14 Jun 1765  Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I3540  Master
    Last Modified 30 Mar 2020 

    Father Henrik Petersen Ystad,   b. Nov 1662, Ystad, Skåne, Sweden Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1711, Hviding, Kvitsøy, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Mother Bergithe Jonsdatter Nyrop,   b. 1685   d. Jan 1767, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Marriage 1 May 1704  Bergen, Hordaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Family ID F1178  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Christine Sophie Lauritzdatter Smith,   b. 1 Feb 1712, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1788, Hviding, Kvitsøy, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years) 
    Marriage 19 May 1733  Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6] 
    Children 
     1. Birgitte Nyrop Petersen von Fyren,   b. 3 Oct 1734, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Dec 1737, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 3 years)
    +2. Johanna Margaretha Petersen Von Fyren,   b. Nov 1735, Hviding, Kvitsøy, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jan 1792, Skånevik, Hordaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years)
     3. Magdalena Christina Petersen von Fyren,   b. 19 Dec 1736, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1737, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
    +4. Brigitte Nyrop Petersen von Fyren,   b. 24 Dec 1737, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jan 1799, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)
    +5. Magdalena Christina Mortensdatter Petersen von Fyren,   b. 30 Mar 1739, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Mar 1765, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 25 years)
     6. Henrich Petersen von Fyren,   b. 15 Jan 1741, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Dec 1800, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)
     7. Lauritz Mortensen Smith Petersen von Fyren,   b. 17 Apr 1742, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 May 1802, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)
     8. Elisabeth Dorothea Petersen von Fyren,   b. 22 Sep 1743, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Jul 1749, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 5 years)
     9. Bergetta Mortensdatter Petersen von Fyren,   b. 1745, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location
    +10. Børge Petersen von Fyhren,   b. 1745, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Oct 1816, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
     11. Sophia Dorothea Petersen von Fyren,   b. 15 Oct 1746, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Jun 1749, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 2 years)
     12. Elisabeth Trane Petersen von Fyren,   b. Mar 1748, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Oct 1758, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 10 years)
     13. Axeliane Christina Petersen von Fyren,   b. 8 Mar 1750, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Mar 1765, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 15 years)
    +14. Morten Smith Petersen von Fyren,   b. 10 Jun 1751, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Aug 1825, Sem prestegård, Kongs-Eik, Slagen, Sem, Vestfold, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
    Family ID F997  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Mar 2019 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1711 - Hviding, Kvitsøy, Rogaland, Norway Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChristening - 5 Feb 1711 - Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 19 May 1733 - Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 9 Jun 1765 - Hviding, Kvitsøy, Rogaland, Norway Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 14 Jun 1765 - Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • One night more than 200 years ago a wealthy businessman ("koebmann"), Henrik Petersen came sailing towards the Norwegian coast with his own ship. He had, on board, very valuable cargo from Lubeck (Germany). A storm forced the ship up against Jaerens Reef (Rogoland's Cape Horn). The ship, with its cargo, broke up in the rough seas. The only person on board to survive was Henrik Petersen. While he was floating around in the rough seas , fighting death, he promised God - that if he survived , he would spend the rest of his fortune on a lighthouse at the place where his ship had foundered. He did survive and kept his promise. He bought the land on "Kvitsoey" (an island just outside the entrance to Stavanger) where he built a lighthouse. He paid for its operation for many years thereafter. In gratitude, for doing so, the king at the time Christian VI, enobled him and gave him the name "von Fyren"

      In 1696 he took his citizenship of Bergen as a "seilingsman" (noble sort of sailor) from Holstein and settled down in Stavanger. He became the postmaster of the place and owner of Kvitsoey vippefyr and the lighthouse at Hoeyvarde in Karmoey. In 1822 by a Kings resolution (proclamation?) it was decided that the lighthouse at Kvitsoey was to be under bought and put under the control of the Norwegian Lighthouse establishment at a cost of 822 riksdaler, to be given to the oldest in every family. Later this was converted to n. Kroner 1200/year. There was another condition to the sale, 'all sons in the family were given the name "von Fyren".

      Henrik Petersen of Ystad had three sons. The first two did not live long, however, the youngest Morten Henrik Petersen von Fyren carried the family name onward.
    • Morten Henrik Petersen von Fyren became a businessman, as his father, and also was a document administrator in Stavanger. His sons became curates at Stavanger Domkirke.

  • Sources 
    1. [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree.
      http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=159430307&pid=132

    2. [S217] National Archives of Norway, Domkirken, Frue in Stavanger Parish Register, (Digitalarkivet, National Archives of Norway) (Reliability: 3).
      Source information: Rogaland county, Domkirken, Frue in Stavanger, Parish register copy nr. B 1 (1688-1714), Birth and baptism records 1711, no page no.
      http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:NBN:no-a1450-kb20070104340755.jpg

    3. [S217] National Archives of Norway, Domkirken, Frue in Stavanger Parish Register, (Digitalarkivet, National Archives of Norway) (Reliability: 3).
      Source information: Rogaland county, Domkirken in Stavanger, Parish register (official) nr. A 5 (1744-1788), Death and burial records 1765, page 84.
      http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:NBN:no-a1450-kb20070625660254.jpg

    4. [S440] National Archives of Norway, Bergen Parish Register, (http://www.arkivverket.no/) (Reliability: 3).
      Source information: Bergen county, Korskirken, Parish register (official) nr. A 8 (1698-1747), Marriage records 1704, page 45-46.
      http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:NBN:no-a1450-kb20070321620554.jpg

    5. [S217] National Archives of Norway, Domkirken, Frue in Stavanger Parish Register, (Digitalarkivet, National Archives of Norway) (Reliability: 3).
      Source information: Rogaland county, Domkirken, Frue in Stavanger, Parish register (official) nr. A 2 /1 (1727-1738), Marriage records 1732-1734, no page no.
      http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:NBN:no-a1450-kb20070625650418.jpg

    6. [S1034] Ancestry.com, Norway, Select Marriages, 1660-1926, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).


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