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Kjearsti Louisa Sigurdsdatter
Also known as Kjersti Sigurdsdatter Sneie, Christina Clark, Christina Hansen and Granny Clark
20 september 1845- 18 September 1935
Born                  Sneie, Amotsdal, Seljord,Telemark Norway
Immigrated to New Zealand Christmas Eve 1872
Christening          16 November 1845
Confirmation      1864 Amotsdal Church
Parents                Sigur Olsen and Hoge Tovsdatter
Grandparents
Immigration         Aboard The Palmerston
                             28 July - 6 December 1872
 1st Marriage      John Clark 31 January 1826- 30 March 1886
                            Married 25 November 1873*
                            Dunedin NZ
Children             Louisa Kristina Clark  1874
                           Hannah Bertha Clark 31 July 1877
                            William Clark  23 September 1880
                            George Clark   1885
2nd Marriage     Hans Jopheson Hansen 1862- 30 March 1904
                             Married 1887*
Children             John Henry Hansen 1888*
                            Hannah Kristine Josephine Hansen 1894-1894

Hans Hansen was at the time of his death a sail maker at Mc`graths in Dunedin.  On his way back from lunch he was hit by a tram and dragged under.  He died later that night.  He was a lot younger than Kjaersti. **
The Accident was widely reported at the time with an inquest held on the 6 April 1904 and printed in the Otago Witness.
Comments:   In 1951 Jim stayed with John Hansen in Ballarat  while             working in Victoria. John Hansens daughter married Jack Diamond and another  son worked further out of Ballarat in a wollen mill.
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Kjaersti`s birth
Update January 2012
Kjersti`s spinning wheel came from Norway aboard The Pamerston and she donated it to The Otago Settlers Museum March 1929 when she was living in Castle Street. It is similar to others in the Seljord area. In 1951 Hannah Bertha donated a Norwegian prayer book which also belonged to Kjersti.
The farm where she was born is now called the Sneie Crofters Museum.
Thanks to Peter Read, Curator from the Otago Settlers Museum, Gunnar Kleivi (5th cousin once removed) who added Kjersti`s family lineage and Sigrun Eidal who enquired if Kjersti`s spinning wheel came from the Sneie Farm, which proved to be the clue to discovering the family tree back to 1560. Sigrun has written a book about the area and lives in Amotsdal.
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House on the right
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Granny Clark (Kjearsti,) Louisa, Grace & son 1914
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Hans Hansen, John Hansen & Kjearsti circa 1902
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This photo is in The Dunedin early settlers Museum along with her spinning wheel
Kjaersti Sigurdsdatter arrived in New Zealand on Friday 6th of December 1872 as an
assisted passenger through the Vogel Scheme . The Palmerston arrived at Port Chalmers after starting the journey in Hamburg Germany 28 July earlier that year. Kjaersti (also known  as Kristi/ Christina) married John Clark (1826-1886) and was the mother of Hannah Bertha Clark(1877-1957) as well as several other children including Louisa Kristine Clark (1874- ),  William Clark (1877-1947), George Clark(1884- ).
 After the death of John Clark, Kjaersti married Hans Jopheson Hansen and had two more children John Henry Hansen (1890- )and Hannah Kristine Josephine Hansen(1894-1894).
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1924 80th birthday
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Marriage Certificate
The Marriage Certificate of John and Kjaersti. She is named as Christina Sarguston, there is also a reference to her name being Segueson in a family photo.
Also note that John signed for her with Kjaersti  leaving X as her mark.
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Christina Hansen
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Hans Jophesen Hansen
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Kjaersti Parents Marriage Register 1821
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Hans Hansen Tramway Accident
Otago Witnes 1904 Casualties.pdf
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Fatal Tramway Accident Inquest
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Sources * www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
                 Family Tree
                Norwegian Digital Archives  www.arkivverket.no
                Dunedin Cemetery records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries_search
               **Janice Clark
                 www.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz