Norwegian emigration | Auction of houses, livestock, movables, and crops

A widow’s 1892 auction in Melhus, Norway, before emigrating to America.

An 1800s illustration of an auction by Carl Frederik Diriks. | Oslo Museum JWC.654 v. Rune Aakvik. Digitaltmuseum.no. Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal.

On Friday 9 September 1892 and the following day, both days from 11.00 a.m., a public auction will be held at the request of the widow Ingeborg Eriksdatter Øie[øren], who is emigrating to America.

The auction, held at the Øieøren smallholding in Melhus, Norway, will include its buildings — a cottage with one sleeping chamber, a food storehouse (stabbur), and a cookhouse (størhus, bryggerhus, eldhus) — along with a fine dairy cow, a bull calf, eight sheep; bedding, beds, cabinets/cupboards, tables, and chairs; a tiled stove (kakkelovn) and a cooking stove; a workbench, various carpenter’s and blacksmith’s tools; two boats; one‑eighth share of a jointly owned herring ring net (sildenot), several herring nets, and various other fishing gear, together with the smallholding’s harvest for this year, consisting of hay, standing grain, and potatoes.

^{Folketidende (Trondheim). nb.no.1892.08.23 page 3.}