Re: ANDERSON-GULLIXSO ANCESTORS
ANDERSON, GULLIXSON, HELGESON, GULAXEN, ROSSING
Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email) In Response To: ANDERSON-GULLIXSO ANCESTORS (CARI LAND)
Date: 8/17/2012 at 21:15:06
Apparently, John Fred Anderson and Bertha Emma Gullixson [preferred spelling] moved between 1900 and 1910 to Pasadena, California where both died. Bertha Emma was the daughter of Andrew Gullixson and Anna (Rossing) Gullixson.
Here is what I found for you:
The Gullixson's Of Vardal, Oppland, Norway & Bode, Iowa
"As a 15-year old boy the size of a large man, Andreas Gullixson arrived in America in 1853 by sailing ship from Norway. Accompanied by his paternal grandmother, Siri Sorensdatter. and speaking only Norwegian, he determined early to traverse America by land and waterways west, to find work and land to settle for the remainder of his family who waited to hear from him in Vardal, Norway. Arriving at Wiota/Argyle Wisconsin he established himself as a lumber jack and became a favorite through his strength, his 6'5" size and his humor. While the rest of his family were waiting to join him, they worked to save for the costs for all seven of them to cross the Atlantic by ship. Gullick Helgeson Gullixson and his wife Anna Iversdatter Gullixson, arrived in America in 1858 with just four of the remaining children, the fifth, 5-year old Johan, died at sea upon the crossing. They joined their then 20-year old son, Andreas (eventually Andrew) Gullixson, in Wisconsin the same year they arrived in America.
Traditionally, the Norwegian people gave their children their last names by using their fathers first name and adding "son", "sen", "on" or "en" for a male child and "datter" for the female child. The Gullixson's eventually ended that tradition after they arrived in America. The records of namings at birth in Norway were kept by the Lutheran churches the people attended in or about their small towns. However, the records of the Gullixson family births in Norway were lost when the church they attended was destroyed in a fire.
Since 1858 the children, grand children and great grand children of Gullick Helgeson, have taken the last name of Gullixson. However, the spelling of that name was subject to many different interpretations in the early years. In 1870 the english speaking census taker took information from the norwegian speaking members of the family at the family farm in Bode, Iowa and the census report spelled their last name "Gulaxen".
Andrew met and married Anna Rossing in Wiota Wisconsin in 1862. In 1865 at the end of the Civil War, Andrew, Anna, their two young daughters and brother-in-law, Captain Christian A. Rossing, loaded all of their possessions into a conestoga wagon and headed west in search of fertile farm land. They arrived in the prairies of Iowa to homestead 160 acres of land. They fashioned a soddy into the side of a ridge and set up household by themselves in a vast land that gradually grew into the small town of Bode, Iowa."
Source:
John Michael Gullixson
P.O. Box 204
6820 Altis Trail @ Lake Davis Road
Portola, California 96122-0204
530-832-0788
Fax: 530-832-1153
Gullixlaw@aol.comAnna (Rossing) Gullixson - Obituary
Humboldt Republican -- Humboldt, Iowa
Friday, March 18, 1938 -- Page 3A lengthy obituary which states that she was predeceased by her daughter, Mrs. J. Fred Anderson of Pasadena, California on April 18, 1921.
Bertha and John Fred Anderson are enumerated as early as the 1910 census in Pasadena. In 1900 they are in Humboldt County, Iowa [J. Fred Anderson born July 1858 in Wisconsin and Bertha E. Anderson born June 1863 in Wisconsin]. The California Death Index lists J. Fred Anderson, born July 1, 1858 and dying in Los Angeles County, California on June 19, 1950. He is married to a woman named Margaret in the 1930 and 1940 censuses.
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