Purpose of this Blog - The 'Virtual Reunion"

Knud Thygesen Naas (1760-1840) was a prosperous and respected teacher, farmer and agricultural innovator. Naas was, and is, an ancient farm with five sub-farms. Knud, and subsequently his eldest son Thyge Knudsen were owners of Naas, Oppistua. After Knud's death, Thyge sold Oppistua to the father of his son Knud Thygesen's bride Dorthe Marie Voje. Knud and Dorthe Marie moved to a smaller farm, Vaasjø. In 1845, Thyge Knudsen Naas (b. 1784) immigrated to the US from Drangedal, Telemark, Norway. Only his eldest son Knud remained in Norway. In addition to his wife, Mariken Olsdatter Kurdøla, his sons Ole and Elling, a daughter Anne, and his eldest daughter Asborg Oline and her husband Gunder Nilsen Naas (I had the wrong name to start) were also in the group of new immigrants from Norway on the ship Aeolus. They first settled at the Pine Lake settlement in Dodge County Wisconsin. Thyge and Anne both died shortly after arrival. After farming in Wisconsin for a number of years, Elling moved to Pierce County, Wisconsin. Asborg and Gunder also moved further west, to Kasson, Minnesota, where they founded a large family that took the name Nelson. Ole moved to North Dakota, and later to Bellingham, Washington. Between 1875 and 1885, all of the children of Knud Thygesen Naas Vaasjø also immigrated to Wisconsin, and first settled in Pierce county, near their Uncle Elling. The only son, Thomas Thygesen, went to North Dakota and farmed in the same area as his Uncle Ole, and never married. Thyges´ wife Mariken lived with her daughter Asborg, in Kasson, MN, where she died in in 1877. Our intention is to follow the generations that followed, to the present time, and to re-establish connections that have been lost for many years.