About my father's relatives
When Norway still was under Danish rule, the Collett family had the largest estate in Norway. The estate was located in Enebakk and Collett had famous parties at this estate, who Henrik Wergeland dubbed the Collett's Hermitage. Later his sister Camilla married Peter Jonas Collett. Main business in Enebakk was timber, just as it is today. My great-grandparents on my father's side were Rebekka Johannesd. and Ole Julius Svendsen [Dammyra]. They probably came to Ekebergdalen, in Enebakk, because of the jobs at the match factory at the estate Ekeberg. This estate was founded by the father of the writer Ragnhild Joelsen. They probably took the name Stromsborg when they settled down. They got seven children between 1883 and 1900, and the youngest was my grandfather Arne Fritjof Stromsborg, who married my grandmother Gunda Johansen. She was the daughter of Bertha and Petter Johansen from Skura. Some of her relatives moved to America. My grandparents got five children, and the youngest was my father Bjorn Harald. The result of this is that I have cousins in the same age as my parents, which some people find unbelievable.
My father married the daughter of the American founder of the Social Security office in Enebakk, whom is my mother Betsy, Elizabeth Georgette. When he was born in World War 2, they were still floating timber in Ekebergdalen. In the beginning of the 20th century the estate Børter founded a power plant. In the eighties this was taken over by the local authority, not the proudest part of Enebakk's history. Anyway, another of my great grandparents children had a local grocery which was one of the very first in Norway with electricity. Rumour says that the owner of the grocery store and the owner of the power plant made an agreement. To sell more light bulbs they turned up the voltage on the local net and shared the profit. My relatives have stayed more than 100 years in Ekebergdalen and some are still living here. My parents are today living in Oslo, and my sister Marianne and her husband Morten Klever lives in Moss. Strømsborg can appear as Stromsborg and Strömsborg, and the name is probably most known as The Stream Castle in Stockholm. It has been told that we don't have any relations to this because my great grandparents start using the name in the 19th century.
