Anna “Ane” Haldorsdatter Refvik Dahl, 1893-1919
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Birth: 26 August 1893, Selje, Sogn Og Fjordane, Norway.
Death: 05 January 1919, Crosby, Kitsap County, Washington
Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: Borghild Dahl
American Revolutionary War Patriots*: None.
Disclaimer: These lines have not been officially proven by NSDAR standards.
Anna “Ane” Haldorsdatter Refvik Dahl was born on August 26, 1893, in Selje, Sogn Og Fjordane, Norway. Her parents were Haldor Nicolai Haldorsen Refvik and Ingeborg Larssine Andersdatter Myre. Anna was the youngest of their ten children.
In the 1900 Norway Census, Anna was living with her parents and five of her siblings.
By 1910, both of Anna’s parents were alive and still living on their farm, but Anna was living in another household working as a maid.
On April 28, 1911, emigration records of the Bergen police record Anna Haldorsdatter Refvik departing Bergen, Norway headed for Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She was recorded as “moving to improve situation, will live with family.” Anna was eighteen years old at the time and was traveling with her sister Bertine. Their ship, Canadian Pacific, arrived in New York City first before sailing on to its final destination of Amk, Vancouver, British Columbia. After they arrived in Vancouver, Anna and Bertine presumably quickly traveled to Seabeck to go live in their older brother Daniel’s household.
Between 1904 and 1915, several of Anna’s siblings had moved to western Washington, including her brother Daniel Brent Haldorsen Dahl. Daniel originally emigrated in 1897 and had lived in the Seabeck area since 1901 after he returned to Norway, married and brought his bride Didrikke Malene Jakobsdatter Reifvik back to Seabeck where he had a homestead. Prior to 1900, he lived in Vancouver where he worked as a fisherman.
On March 14, 1908, Daniel and his wife Didrikke had their fourth child, a daughter, they named Borghild Alice Dahl, but she sadly died on December 17, 1914, when she was six years old after being sick for two weeks with tuberculosis. She was buried in Seabeck Cemetery.
On January 5, 1919, Anna also died from pulmonary tuberculosis in Crosby, Kitsap County, Washington at the age of twenty-five. She was buried in the Seabeck Cemetery next to her niece Borghild. Daniel was the informant listed on her death certificate. No markers are currently present on Anna or Borghild’s graves.
Special note: Daniel and Anna were very likely related to the Myre/Myhre family and Nelson family in Seabeck since their mother was named Ingeborg Larssine Andersdatter Myre (Myre was the name of the family farm back in Norway.)Also, Anders/Andrew Nelson, son of Nils Myhre in Seabeck, signed as a witness on Daniel’s naturalization papers.