The Norwegian Munson and Lee Families: History and Genealogy

The Norwegian Munson and Lee Families:
History and Genealogy

Links to documents that are posted here are in red-orange, the other listed ones will be done eventually.

This site has a list of individuals with full genealogical information in combined MASTER DATABASE for the families MUNSON, LEE, LARKIN, FESSENDEN, and THANNHAUSER. I have also contributed this data to the world family tree at Ancestry.com (of which I am an affiliate) as database 2043614. They have a free program for displaying and working with genealogical data. You can or from the database on Ancestry.com

Lee Family 1894	Sections on this page (click to go to them) are: Personal Stories - Written and taped recollections and letters Lineage - Lists some information about the original emigrants in each family line with links to charts of their ancestors and descendants Photo Album - Photos of ancestors and their descendants Documents - Scanned in copies of public documents such as newspaper articles, Norwegian farm book records, and original music Websites of Munson family members: Kitty Munson Cooper Shipley Munson Leah Munson	Munsons 1914
	Personal Stories and Recollections MUNSON (MÖNSEN): about our ancestors "Bestafa" - Lauritz Christian Andresen (Mönsen) 1840-1922 and "Bestamor" - Josephine Halling 1844-1914 Nancy Berg recalls the stories of Lauritz Munson's courtship and life with Josephine Halling Munson. Transcription of Marian Munson's stories of Bestafa and the family's early days in Brooklyn from 1995 videotape of Munson family reunion Alex Munson's (1907-1983) memories of his grandfather Lauritz Munson "Bestafa" and stories his Dad told of his Aunt Inge Description of Munson family emigration and early life in Brooklyn from letters by Lawrence Josiah Munson (1878-1950) to Lawrence Shipley Munson (1920-). About the ship Thingvalla that brought the Monsens to America: http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=thing (pictures at bottom of page) http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Wrecks/Thingvalla.htm
	LEE (HALVORSEN): about "Dada" and "Mormor" - Henry H. Lee and Maren Wold Lee Alex Munson's memories of his maternal grandfather "Dada" and his parents Stories about Maren Wold from a letter to Maren (Lee?) by Marian Munson Pasquet (1910-1997)
	MUNSON: Lawrence Josiah Munson's family LJM's discovery of his love of music from his letters to his son "Binks" (L.S.Munson) during World War II Diary c. 1900 of Lawrence Josiah Munson's courtship of Anna Lee (in progress) Alex Munson's memories of his mother and her death in a car accident Marian Munson Pasquet's(1910-1997) recollections of family life Henry Munson's (1911-1991) autobigraphical recollections - Cragsmoor, Family History Larry Munson's (1920 and still going strong) reminiscences on technology's effects during his life. Recollections of the Munson School of Music by a former student

Lineage - online ancestry charts

List of individuals in Munson, Lee, Larkin, and Thannhauser ancestry database

(Larkin and Munson research done by Richard (Dick) Fessenden Larkin, Lee research by Lee Munson, and Thannhauser research by Kitty Munson Cooper )

The Norwegian Munson Family (originally Mönsen)

Lauritz Christian Andresen (Mönsen) , known as Louis C. Munson in this country, a ship's carpenter, emigrated from Christiansand, Norway in 1883 and brought his wife, Josephine Pedersdatter (Halling), and 9 children over in 1884. This genealogical data is from the research of Richard (Dick) Fessenden Larkin.

The Norwegian Lee Family (originally Halvorsen)

Henry Lee, born Henrick Hans Halvorsen in Etne, Norway, (near Bergen and Stavanger) was the 9th of nine children. He went to sea for a number of years and left ship in 1869 in Millerstown, New Brunswick, Canada. Three years later he went to New York City where he met and married Maren Wold (pronounced Vold) from Drammen, Norway, and made his fortune in harbor businesses.

The research that traced Henry Lee back to the early kings of Norway was done by his great grandson Lee Munson, son of Alex Munson. Henry Lee is descended from Charlemagne , King Harald Haarfarge (fairhair) who united Norway into one country and Saint Olaf , the King of Norway who converted his country to Christianity, as well as many other royal families of early Europe including king Harald of England who lost in 1066 and even some Byzantium emperors. To look at the descent from Charlemagne follow the bolded child down. Or go up from H.H.Lee's great-grandmother Mette Oldsdatter (born ABT. 1731, Fatland) and her great-grandmother Katharina Helvig Lauritsdtr. Galtung (1635-1693) via her great grandfather Thomas Svendsson Orning (born 1519) on up.
Of course it is mathematically possible to show that everyone of North European descent is descended from Charlemagne. Here are a few links to sites that discuss this: http://www.oz.net/~lee/Genealogy/charlemagne.html http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/GenealComp1.html http://members.aol.com/acadac/gnlgy/cousin.html http://olivetreegenealogy.com/misc/ancestors.shtml

Photo Album - Click here for the new Gallery of ancestors

KittyMunsonandSusanLeakeSummer1954withBinksAnneCharlieGeordieBetsy.jpg

Larry and Kitty Munson
with the Leakes, 1954

Photos of the Lee and Munson graves in the Green-Wood cemetery
Photos of Lauritz and Josephine Monsen's grave in the Green-Wood cemetery
Photos of Lee Ancestors
Photos of Munson Ancestors
- Photos of Lawrence J. Munson (1878- 1950) family
  - Photos of Marian Munson Pasquet and Family
    - Photos of George(1941-) and Geegee Pasquet
      - Photos of George and Geegee Pasquet's daughters and families
  - Photos of Anne Louis ("Wiggles") Munson Leake and Family
    - Photos of Susan Leake Murrell and Family
  - Photos of Lawrence S. Munson (1920-) and Family ( at Kitty's wedding Fall '00 )
    - Photos of Kitty Munson Cooper (1950-) and Family
      - son Paul Munson Bethe's graduation from Williams College
    - Photos of Shipley Munson (1958-) and Family .

Documents

Translations of Norwegian Farm Book entries for the Etne farms where (Henry Lee) Hans Halvorson's ancestors lived (our ancestors' names are bolded) Tveito The Tvetden family at Etne Skjold
Translations of extracts from Norwegian Farm and History Book entries for the Wold family
Newspaper Articles
LJ Munson's musical compositions
Great grandmother Josephine Halling Munson's lullaby

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