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Kjersti Louisa Sigurdsdatter
Also known as Kjersti Sigurdsdatter Sneie, Christina Clark, Christina Hansen and Granny Clark 20 september 1845- 18 September 1935 Born Sneie, Åmotsdal Seljord,Telemark Norway Immigrated to New Zealand Christmas Eve 1872 Christening 16 November 1845 Confirmation 1864 Amotsdal Church Parents Sigur Olsen and Hege Tovsdatter 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 Residence Kjersti 1845 Sneie, Amotsdal Seljord Norway 1871- Hovden Telemark, Norway 1873 -Walker Street (now Carroll) Dunedin 1904- 44 Leith Street Dunedin ( Hans Newspaper inquest) 1929 - 289 Castle Street Dunedin (Otago Museum records) 1931- 561 Cargill Road Dunedin (now called Hillside Road, Caversham) 1935 - 561 Cargill Road, Dunedin passed away 18 September 1935 in Timaru Residence Hans Hansen 1865 Maclaggan St Alliance hotel Dunedin 1866 Maclaggan St Alliance hotel Dunedin 1887 Walker Street Dunedin 1893 Walker Street Dunedin 1904 Leith Street Dundein Hans Hansen was at the time of his death a sail maker at Mc`graths 204 Princess St , on the corner of Walker St (now Carroll) and Princess Street 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 woollen mill.  Kjaersti`s birth |
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 This photo is in The Dunedin early settlers Museum along with her spinning wheel |
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KSDH 1871 Kjersti Sigurs Datter Hovden 1871
Kjersti was Maid servant at the farm Hovden in Høydalsmo parish where she was living prior to immigrating to New Zealand in 1872 |
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Kjersti`s Hymn book was donated by her daughter Hannah Bertha Clark in 1951, This is known as an Obligatory Hymnbook and was probably a gift from the Parish in Amotsdal
Photo`s from the Collection of the Otago Settlers Museum. Permission of the Otago Settlers Museum must be obtained before any re-use of this image
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Sneie Crofters Farm Museum where Kjerst and her father were born
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Walker Street now Carroll St
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Leith Street
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289 Castle Street, built around 1900
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Our records don't record a street number when she was living in Castle Street. I don't see her listed in the Post Office directories around the date the spinning wheel was donated either (1929). I wonder if that means she was living with someone else - a relative maybe [I see a William Clark at 289 Castle Street]. According to cemetery records they were living in Walker Street when Hans died and she was residing in 36 Memorial Avenue, Timaru at the time of her own death.
Peter Read Curator Otago Pioneer Museum |
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The Caversham Project, Dunedin South
The Birth of Modern Times: 1890-1940 Between 1890 and 1940 some 90,000 people lived in Dunedin's southern suburbs. Spreading out over 'The Flat' they occupied distinctive suburban areas including Caversham - New Zealand's oldest and most densely populated working class community. Dunedin led the way as New Zealand's first major industrial centre. 'Modern' ways of organising work and society were pioneered here. The experience of the city's southern suburbs is a microcosm of what was happening across the country. Research by Otago University |
Location of Kjersti`s last place of residence 561 Cargill Road Dunedin South
now known as Hillside Road, Caversham |
 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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Southern Cemetery
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 Kjaersti Parents Marriage Register 1821 |
 Hans Hansen Tramway Accident |
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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
http://caversham.otago.ac.nz/files/areamap.pdf
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
http://caversham.otago.ac.nz/files/areamap.pdf
