Monday, August 1, 2016

Finding Elling Eriksen Natvig's Land in Cottage Grove, Wisconsin

After I wrote Amanuensis Monday - 1895 Will of Elling Erickson Natvig (1820-1896) of Cottage Grove, Wisconsin today, I wondered if Elling Eriksen Natvig had land in Cottage Grove, Dane County, Wisconsin.  

I recalled that we had found Natvig Road in Cottage Grove in 2011 when we visited Dane County.  I wrote about that in (Not So) Wordless Wednesday - Post 173: Hunting for Natvig Land in Cottage Grove WI (posted 5 October 2011).  However, we did not try to contact anyone at the time.

I searched for Elling Eriksen, E. Eriksen, Elling Natvig, E. Natvig, Elling N*t*g and Elling N*t*k on Ancestry.com limiting the search to Wisconsin.  There were very few matches for these searches.  Tow of them were for the U.S. Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918 for the years 1873, 1890 and 1899.

Here is the plat map for Cottage Grove for 1873:


E. Erickson has land in Sections 28 and 29:


The parcels owned by E. Erickson are:

*  80 acres in the northern half of the southeast quarter of Section 29.
*  26 acres in the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 28.

Here is the plat map for Cottage Grove for 1890:


There is land for both Elling Erickson and E.E. Natwig in Sections 28 and 29 in Cottage Grove township:


I see these parcels of interest in the snipped map of Sections 28 and 29 above:

*  Elling Erickson has 40 acres in the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 29.
*  Elling Erickson has 40 acres in the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 29.
*  E.E. Natwig has 26 acres in the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 28.
*  E.E. Natwig has 40 acres in the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 28.
*  Silvester Matwig has 232.49 acres in the west half of Section 28, including all of the northwest quarter.

It appears that between 1873 and 1890 that Elling Erickson Natvig obtained 40 acres of land in Section 29
and granted 40 acres in the same quarter to T.N. Sime, and obtained the 40 acres of land in the northeast
quarter of Section 28.  Silvester Natvig also obtained the land in Section 28 from P. Munsen.

The 1899 plat map of Cottage Grove is:


The zoomed in Sections 28 and 29 show:



The Natvig land parcels on the 1899 map are:

*  S.E. Natvig 40 acres in the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 29.
*  S.E. Natvig has 40 acres in the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 29.
*  S.E. Natvig has 121.52 acres in the west half of Section 28.
*  A,O, Natvig has 155 acres in the west half of Section 28, to the north and east of S.E. Natvig.

So it appears that between 1890 and 1899, the Elling Erickson land in Section 29 was obtained by S.E. 
Natvig, that the two E.E. Natwig parcels in Section 29 were sold, and that A.O. Natvig obtained some
of the land owned by S.E. Natvig between 1890 and 1899.


I believe that E. Erickson, Elling Erickson and E.E. Natwig are the same person - Elling Eriksen Natvig 
(1820-1896).  I believe that Silvester Matwig and S.E. Natvig are the same person - Solfest Ellingsen 
Natvig (1847-????), the son of Elling Eriksen Natvig and his wife, Anna Ellingsdatter.  I don't know who 
A.O. Natvig is - perhaps a relative of Elling and Solfest Natvig that I don't know about.

Solfest Natvig was not named as an heir in Elling Eriksen Natvig's 1895 will which was proved in 1897.
My theory is that Solfest was gifted some of Elling Eriksen Natvig's land during Elling's lifetime as his
portion of the estate.  In the 1900 U.S. Census, Solfest Natvig is head of household with his mother and
sister Christina in the household.  


I have added land records for Dane County to my To-Do List for my next trip to the Family History
Library in Salt Lake City in hopes of sorting this out.  


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1 comment:

Grandpa Landmeier said...

I have a few friends who live in Cottage Grove and would be happy to have one of them do a drive by and take a few pictures.