Ellickson Family History & Genealogy
Ellickson Last Name History & Origin
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My ELLICKSON name came from two brothers who emigrated from Skien in the County of Telemark, Norway on April 16, 1871. Eivind (age 22) and Eigild (age 19) left from the port of Porsgrunn with their families aboard the ship Laurdal and arrived in Quebec City, Canada sometime in mid-summer. From there they likely boarded a train that eventually took them on new track to the Dutch truck-farming community of Roseland, IL, on the south side of Chicago. The younger brother, Eigild, next continued his journey with his wife (?) to Lansing, Iowa where he became a lumberjack/millworker and where he was killed in a lumber mill accident on Sept. 3, 1876. No grave has been located, yet – nor any direct descendents.
Eivind, the older brother, stayed in the Chicago area, and because he had been apprenticed as a carpenter at the age of 14 in Norway, continued with that trade. His full Norwegian name was EIVIND ASLAKSEN GRINI. Norwegian naming tradition, until 1925, was to give a child the father’s first name (i.e. Aslak) with a gender suffix (sen or son, datter or daughter) for a last name. Grini is the farm where Eivind was born and raised – which name was dropped when he moved away from there. Sometime prior to naturalization on Nov 8, 1882, Eivind changed his name to EDWIN ELLICKSON in the same Cook County Circuit Court. Shortly thereafter, Edwin moves to Ashland, WI to start his own lumber company with two Swedish partners, Peterson and Paulsen. Twenty-eight years later he retires back in Harvey, IL, where he dies on Sept. 19, 1933.
By Dale Robert Ellickson, 3-2-19
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Son of Ellick
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Ellecksen, Ellicksen, Ellickson
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