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Schanche, Johan (Jon) Garman (b. ABT 1778, d. 22 Sep 1840)

Note: Death found in Kirkebok for Kjøllefjord / Lebesby / Tana 1751-1852, Page 110. Published by the Norwegian Historical Data Center, University of Tromsø. ISBN 82-7663-255-6. Death record said Johan Schanke was 63 at death.


Found all children in my Parish books for Tana births. Child #1,3,4 found marriage dates in marriage book for Tana 1751-1851 pg's 64,70.77

Marriage for Johan Garmen Schanche and Elise Sophia Schønning Wahl page 34 in Kirkebok of marriages of Tana 1751-1851 Published by Norwegian Historcal Data Center University Tromsø, Troms, Norway ISBN 82-7663-306-4.

I received this information from several newspaper articles written in the "Finnmark Dagbad" newspaper, written by "Ole Johan Valle" of Hammerfest, Norway. The articles were printed in 1981 over a period of many weeks. While on the inter-net, a related Ulich wrote me and gave me Ole's e-mail address. Ole wrote to me and said that he just wanted to do these articles on the Ulich family, as the Ulich family had been very prominent in Norway years ago, and he wanted to follow the family. I received these articles from a uncle of mine while I was visiting Norway, however they were in Norwegian. I was able to extract out the names of my close family and record them, but the other names and information I was not able to translate. I tried to get these articles translated many times over a period of many years. Then one day Susan Ulich Jaeger wrote to me on the inter-net and said that she had these newspaper clippings translated and printed out in a book report form. She graciously sent me a copy of the translated report.

Johan was born in Karmøy on 28 Aug 1778 and died at Tana on 22 Sep 1840. He was a son of the priest of Agvaldsnes, Carsten Henrik Schanche factor. In Kjøllefjord in 1805 he was a shopkeeper. In 1810 he bought a place called the Gullholmen in Tana from a Dorwegian and Danish government and that year he got a license to run a business there. In 1823, he took over Hopsiedet from his father-in-law and then got a license to run a business in Gamvik in 1824 and in Polmak in 1832. In the winter, the family lived on the large property, Marienlund, near the Tana river. Schanche was a useful man, he was a district judge, a sheriff, all at the same time. He was married on 20 Sep 1810 to the 16 year old Elise Schønning Wahl, who was born at Fuglenes in Hammerfest on 3 Mar 1794. She was baptised in Hammerfest church on 3 May 1794. Her godparents were:

Given Name: Johan (Jon) Garman

Death: 22 Sep 1840 Marienlund, Tana, Finnmark, Norway

Change: Date: 1 Jun 2002
Time: 14:21:25

Note: Death of Else Sophie Vahl found in Kirkebok for Kjøllefjord/Lebesby/Tana 1751-1852, Page 111. Published by the Norwegian Historical Data Center, University of Tromsø. ISBN 82-7663-255-6. Death records said that Else was 82 at time of death, however I think that is wrong, as she would have been 53 at time of first child birth.


Johan was born in Karmøy on 28 Aug 1778 and died at Tana on 22 Sep 1840. He was a son of the priest of Agvaldsnes, Carsten Henrik Schanche factor. In Kjøllefjord in 1805 he was a shopkeeper. In 1810 he bought a place called the Gullholmen in Tana from a Dorwegian and Danish government and that year he got a license to run a business there. In 1823, he took over Hopsiedet from his father-in-law and then got a license to run a business in Gamvik in 1824 and in Polmak in 1832. In the winter, the family lived on the large property, Marienlund, near the Tana river. Schanche was a useful man, he was a district judge, a sheriff, all at the same time. He was married on 20 Sep 1810 to the 16 year old Elise Schønning Wahl, who was born at Fuglenes in Hammerfest on 3 Mar 1794. She was baptised in Hammerfest church on 3 May 1794.

Elise or Else (what she called herself) was born in Fuglenes, Hammerfest, Finnmark, Norway. Confirmed in 1810 and was a daughter of isach Andreas Wahl and Else Sophie Schønning (1759-1841). Mr. Wahl was baptised in Bergen in 1749 and was son of a school manager in Bergen, Jørgen Bruncchorst Wahl and Else margrethe Cold. Else Schønning was born in 1759 and was baptised in Bodø on Sunday the 24th after Trinitatis, same year, and she died at Marienlund in Tana on 20 Jan 1841. She was a daughter of distrrict judge in Salten,, Clause Ursin Schønning, born on the farm, Skotnes in Bukdnes in 1730, died in Salten in 1768. Claus married in Bodø om 1758 to else Sophie Aagon 1718-1771, daughter of district judge in Salten, Truels Aagom and Else Marie Helsted.

From his trip to Finnmark, Bjørnstjern Bjørnson wrote about Else Sophie Schanche and he called her the mother of all the Sami people of the mountains and truthfully, she was like a mother to all of them. She spent a lot of time and all the money she had for them. In 1826, the doctor lived in alta, that's why Else Marie wanted to take care of them and help them with medicine, advice and care. When she travelled around, she always carried a lilttle bag filled with medicines. The inside of the bag was covered with pictures of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus. This was probably where she got her strength from. Bjønson tells us how good hearted this waman was. The day before Christmas in 1866, while Else was feeding her relatives and guests, a Sami man came in with tears in his eyes and asked her nicely to come with him even though it was a far way to go, but his wife had been struggling to give birth to their child for 2 days and he thought she would die. her guests and children told him that it would be too hard for a 72 year old woman to go that far in bad weather and it was night. But the Sami man knew her and asked God to please help him. So the old woman stood up from the chair and one person had to go get her skis, and another one her gloves while she was getting food and medicine. Then they left. Two days after, she was still not back, but when they were having dinner that night, she came in the door. She was quiet and she looked tired, but didn't say anything. She just gave orders to heat up water and milk. When she got the water and milk, she uncovered a little infant from a rabbit fur cover and all she said was "God has given me this, the mother died". She fed the baby then found clothes for it and found a little box to put it in. She kept this little box at the front of her bed and she was always making sure he/she felt loved and was fine. Sherever she went, she always brought this little box with her. As she said herself, this child was her dearest one that she held closest to her heart. When the child was 6 years old, he/she was in a fire and died. She looked for days through the ashes and found the skeleton of the body, which she put in the same box with the rabbit fur cover and then she buried it.

In the census in 1865, she lived in Birkelund in Tana and she had a foster son 9, years old and two foster daughters, 11 years old.

Given Name: Else Sophie

Death: 30 Jan 1841 Marienlund, Tana, Finnmark, Norway

Change: Date: 1 Jun 2002
Time: 14:41:04

Note: Birth found in Kirkebok for Kjøllefjord/Lebesby/Tana 1751-1816, Page 167. Published by the Norwegian Historical Data Center, University of Tromsø. ISBN 82-7663-280-7

Given Name: Isach Andreas

Change: Date: 22 Feb 2002
Time: 23:21:59

Given Name: Carsten Hendrik

Change: Date: 6 Jan 2003
Time: 22:20:16