Father: Þórsteinsson, Þorsteinn name changed to Stone Stoneson
Mother: Einarsdóttir, Ingibjörg
Residence: 2314 Victor ST, Bellingham, WA
Residence July 26, 1910: 2330 William ST, Bellingham, WA
Death: 1963 in San Francisco, CA, United States
Shared Facts: Christopherson, Kajartan
Marriage: 1914 in British Columbia, Canada [1]
According to Kay and Gudrun's Wedding Cert (see Kjartan's page), her middle name might have been Sigridur. They were married 32nd and Crescent RD in Crescent, B.C., Canada, at Gudrun's parents home.
Composite of what 13410 Crescent RD hight have looked like, where kay and Gudrun were married. Gudrun (means "god's secret lore") met Kjartan and married in 1914. They had nine children together while living on a couple farms and one Shanty. After they were married, Gudrun, also known as Rooney, was stepping out of a model T car buckboard and stepped into a badger hole. She broke her ankle and the doctors up north never set it correctly. She had trouble the rest of her life with that.
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The Stoneson brother; Ellis and Henry Stoneson, Gudrun's brothers, sponsored the family when the men traveled to San Francisco and Gudrun and the others were brought down a year later. Initially they brought down Lorne. Roy has a voice recording of the story by Hank.
According to Hank, [Ellis] came by the farm near Baldur and Lorne left with one of the brothers (transcribe voice recording) which offered to educate Kjartan Lorne, known as Lorne, and the family followed about 1935/36 leaving Canada for San Francisco. It was a sad day for the whole family, yet due to the generosity of the Stonesons, the whole family relocated only to be interrupted by World War II. All four sons of Gudrun and Kjartan, known as 'Kay', served through 1945. Lorne continued in the Reserves becoming a Major (ref. source 2) . Lorne later became an Architech June 2011, Roy drove up HWY 5 throygh Portland, Seattle, obtained his passport, then stopped at Bellingham (Fairhaven and New Whatcom into the one city now called Bellingham). Hank had some postcards with ____ Victor ST, Bellingham as Gudrun's address. Roy drove to the house, yet could not find the address. Possible it was at the end of that street, which did not extend to what is there now.
Roy also visited Stafholt, later obtaining emailed copies of Ellis and Henry Stoneson, Gudrun's brothers.
Another stop planned was the Blaine Memorial Statue Roy wanted donate for a family brick which never happened.
Research: first Norwegian Lutheran Church in Bellingham.
Read the story of Gudrun´s friend, Runa Thordarson, author of Échoes of the Past´.
Marriage record at BC Archives
Groom Name: Kjartan Christopherson Bride Name: Guduron Sigridu Stoneson Event Date: 1914 5 17 (Yr/Mo/Day) Event Place: Crescent Reg. Number: 1914-09-077693 B.C. Archives Microfilm Number: B11378 GSU Microfilm Number: 1983706
http://search.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/sn-4DA9040/view/Genealogy/find%2Bkjartan%2B%2B%2B%2B/1
Gudrun 'Rooney' and Kjartan 'Kay' are visiting Kay's sister, Susie in Chicago in this PDF slideshow. In the beginning you will see Kay and a woman who is also photographed with Gudrun visiting her mother, possibly at her home in Blaine. This is not Bertha Stoneson. Identity unknown.
Notes:
Person Notes: Gudrun's brothers, Henry and Ellis Stoneson, built Stonestown in San Francisco, Lakeside, Park merced and many house tracts down the Peninsula.
