SOMMERSCHIEL, STINCHEN HENRIKSDOTTER [SSNE 6739]

Surname

SOMMERSCHIEL, SOMMERSCHELL, SOMMERSCALES

First name

STINCHEN HENRIKSDOTTER

Nationality

ENGLISH

Text source

Stinchen Henriksdotter Sommerschiel was the daughter of Henry Sommerscales [SSNE 5221] and his wife Anna Rorig [Rorichsdotter?]. Her father had migrated to Norway from England circa 1615. Her mother may have been of English descent as well. Stinchen died in 1671. She had three sisters, Eline [SSNE 6740], Elisabeth [SSNE 6741] and Hilchen [SSNE 6742], and a brother, Henrich [SSNE 6743]. 

 

Thanks to KNUT GEELMUYDEN of Bergen Statsarkiv. Sources: Thomas Brayshaw & Ralph M. Robinson: A history of the ancient parish of Giggleswich (1932); L. I. Vogt, Om Norges udførsel af trælast i ældre tider. Trondhjems overformynderiruller Joh. Sommerschield: Stamtavle over familien Sommerschield, (Namsos, 1908); He and his daughter Elizabeth are mentioned in Henry Berg, Trondheim før Cicignon: Gater og Gårder før reguleringen 1681, (Trondheim, 1951), pp.220 and 224. Female.

Service record

NORWAY, TRONDHEIM

Departed 1671-12-31

Capacity MISC, purpose MISC