Anna Gudrun Hauge Holmes Oral History Interview 1982.

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Anna Gudrun Hauge Holmes Oral History Interview 1982.

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The interview was conducted with Gudrun Holmes on March 18, 1982 in Stanwood, Washington. This interview contains information on family history; church life in Norway; father's carpentry work; brothers and sisters; family home, Christmas, and school in Norway; Norwegian foods; living with a cousin; meeting husband; reasons for emigrating; wedding; parents' feelings about emigration; voyage to America; West Coast; house in Stanwood, WA; railroad work; Great Depression; impressions of U.S.; language problems; children; visit to Norway; church life in U.S.; Norwegian foods. The interview also contains photographs of Gudrun Holmes and her husband Elias at the time of the interview. The interview was conducted in English with some Norwegian towards the end. Also see Elias Holmes, T152. Gudrun's family tree is also in the Karmøy Torvastad bygdebook on page 53.

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Stavangerfjord (Steamship)

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Hauge, Johan.

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Hauge, Marie Elisabet.

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Hauge, Peder.

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Hauge, Asbjørn.

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Hauge, Gurine.

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Nelsen, Gudveig Holmes.

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Holmes, Kjell.

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Holmes, John.

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John Elmer Holmes, educated at Stanford, was with the Miners and Merchants Bank in Alaska, working his way up from assayer at the Candle branch (1909) to vice-president at the Iditarod branch (1915). From the description of John E. Holmes collection, 1908-1915. (University of Alaska, Fairbanks). WorldCat record id: 318655742 ...

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Holmes, Anna Gudrun.

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Holmes, Anna Gudrun Hauge.

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Anna Gudrun (Hauge) Holmes was born on February 13, 1898 in Hauge, Torvastad, Karmøy, Norway. Her parents were Johan and Gurine Hauge, and she had six sisters and two brothers. Gudrun started school when she was seven and went for seven years; she then attended Ungdomsskole at Kopervik on Karmøy for six months, where she learned to sew, cook, weave, do arithmetic, and speak English. She stayed with a cousin in various places in 1914 and then returned home. In 1927, she met her husband, Elias Hol...

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Hauge, Anna Gudrun.

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Holmes, Elias.

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Hauge, Anna Sophie.

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