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Fredrik Nikolai Andersson Wiborg (vis kilde)
Sideversjonen fra 18. feb. 2014 kl. 00:45
, 18. feb. 2014→Referansar: Stagg, Frank Noel, The Heart of Norway., George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1953
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Besides performing duties as a sexton, Wiborg was a member of the broader community. Nicolai Christian Lassen’s diary, which was published in 1777, gives insight in its record of a visit with Wiborg at Sili. Lassen indicates that: “In Lossøe parish at the Sili farm the owner, sexton Wiborg has converted a marsh to meadow ground by drainage, where it now grows 6 hayricks of hay. He has built a farm house, under which he set a foundation three yards deep into the earth, and under the walls lay stone drainage passages it drain away the spring water that erodes away the earth. He operated the first stamp mill (for wadmal) in the parish. Several years prior he made an attempt to fire faience ware from a very fine clay, which is found in the vicinity of the main church. Because of the locations great separation from the marketplaces, shipping to the customer was difficult and costly. Besides in the vicinity there is limited wood for burning. Viborg is a witty & skilled farmer who with his children has improved three farms, where he formerly dwelled. He also keeps himself temperate.”<ref name=L>Lassen, Nicolai: Nicolai Christian Lassens Dagbok fra 1777 over en Reise igiennem Guldbrandsdalen; Gudbrandsdalens Historielag 1933 </ref> | Besides performing duties as a sexton, Wiborg was a member of the broader community. Nicolai Christian Lassen’s diary, which was published in 1777, gives insight in its record of a visit with Wiborg at Sili. Lassen indicates that: “In Lossøe parish at the Sili farm the owner, sexton Wiborg has converted a marsh to meadow ground by drainage, where it now grows 6 hayricks of hay. He has built a farm house, under which he set a foundation three yards deep into the earth, and under the walls lay stone drainage passages it drain away the spring water that erodes away the earth. He operated the first stamp mill (for wadmal) in the parish. Several years prior he made an attempt to fire faience ware from a very fine clay, which is found in the vicinity of the main church. Because of the locations great separation from the marketplaces, shipping to the customer was difficult and costly. Besides in the vicinity there is limited wood for burning. Viborg is a witty & skilled farmer who with his children has improved three farms, where he formerly dwelled. He also keeps himself temperate.”<ref name=L>Lassen, Nicolai: Nicolai Christian Lassens Dagbok fra 1777 over en Reise igiennem Guldbrandsdalen; Gudbrandsdalens Historielag 1933 </ref> | ||
After renting for several years he bought the cotter's place Leiren under Kolstad in 1753 for 130 rd. There was clay on the place & Wiborg built a pottery factory. The pottery works was unprofitable and he gave up the pottery works in a few years. Not least important is Lassen’s observation is that there was limited fire wood. Proper types and ample supplies of fuel are critical to all faience production.<ref name=K>Kielland , Arnfinn: Bygdebok for Lesja. Bd. 3, s. 300 - 303 </ref><ref name=S/> | |||
Most of the firewood was committed to go to the Lesja ironworks or Folldal copper works. The iron works at Lesjaverk was up the valley, 18 km (11 miles) from Sexton Wiborg’s faience works, and would have had a well-established demand for charcoal to fire the smelters there. Iron smelting is recorded at Lesjaverk as early as 1614. Both the Head Pastor and Sexton Wiborg traveled there on Sundays for services. The Folldal works (Folldal Verk) was founded in 1748, when Folldal’s main copper mine, Gammelgruva, opened, along with the supporting smelters. At that time both Lesjaverk and Folldal were part of Lesja municipality and both the Head Pastor and Sexton Wiborg routinely traveled to those churches on Sundays for services as well – to Folldal a distance of 50 km (30 miles) each way. Due to the proximity, the competition for wood/chacoal to fire the furnaces at both locations would have been significant.<ref name=SS/>Stagg, Frank Noel, The Heart of Norway., George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1953 </ref> | |||
Sexton Wiborg registered in 1763 as the representative of the monopoly to provide musicians for the Lesja & Dover areas for playing at weddings, child birth celebrations and other gatherings, where musicians are needed. This right was Marthe Dorthea’s, and the delegation was dated in Christiania on 3 September 1763. Wiborg was to collect an annual fee on behalf of Marthe Meyer from the musicians who played in the Lesja & Dovre region. He exercised that duty, no doubt to earn money as we have no evidence he was a musician.<ref name=S/> | |||
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