Jim Wiborg

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Son of Clifford Wiborg and Irene (Riopelle) Wiborg

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Jim Wiborg is a Military Veteran.
Served in the United States Navy 1968-1973
Lieutenant, NPS

Biography

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James Wiborg was born to Clifford and Irene Wiborg in the 1940s. He was born in the Union Hospital at New Ulm and taken home to a farm in Bernadotte township, Nicollet County, Minnesota.^[1][2] On 3 November 1949 the family moved to the "Alex Johnson" farm in Cornish Township, Sibley County where Jim grew up just Northwest of Lafayette, Minnesota.^[3]

Jim attended grade school in Lafayette and graduated from high school at Winthrop, Minnesota. He attended St. Olaf College, graduating with majors in Physics and Mathematics.

Jim passed the Vietnam-era Draft physical while attending St. Olaf. He was notified that upon graduation his Vietnam Draft deferment would lapse and he would be conscripted in June. He enlisted in the US Navy. They used a bit of training and an act of Congress to convert him into an officer and a gentleman. Navy service included:

• On 13 June 1968 Jim Wiborg enlisted in the US Navy in the 180-day delay program for entry into Officer Candidate School.
• On 11 Apr 1969 at Naval Station Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, Jim Wiborg was commissioned as Ensign, USNR (Line).^[4]
• On 1 Apr 1970 at the Bainbridge Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Maryland, USA, Jim was commissioned Lieutenant Junior Grade, USNR (1105 - Line).^[4]
• On 1 May 1972 at Bainbridge Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Maryland, USA Jim was commissioned Lieutenant, USNR (1105 - Line).^[4]
• On 10 Nov 1972 at the Bainbridge Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Maryland Jim Wiborg scored the first points for Naval Nuclear Power School in their football playoff upset of the Naval Academy Prep School.^[5]
• Joined the Aberdeen Proving Grounds flying club and qualified as a private pilot.

After his active duty service obligation was completed in 1973 Jim married (still married 50 years later in 2024) and then attended the University of Washington, doing graduate work in nuclear physics. He went on to work at the Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory and subsequently the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

His research in genealogy began in 1974, when his father died. Among his records, his father had several Norwegian language documents. With a bit of work, family members were able to identify them as family "birth certificates", documentation of Small Pox inoculations, Great Grandfather's military service records, and the contract for Great Grandfather's family's sea-passage on the Argo from Bergen, Norway to Quebec. Collaborating with many cousins/aunts/uncles, we pushed that tree back to Norway and Denmark as well as to French Canada.

Denmark/Norway

Interesting ancestors found in Denmark/Norway include:

• 30th great grandfather is Harald Bluetooth Gormsen VIII according to a somewhat questionable paper trail
• 27th great grandfather is Guillaume de Normandie (William the Conquerer) according to a somewhat questionable paper trail
• Tenth great grandfather Jens Jenssen Staby from Ribe in Denmark, Jens the elder, as he has later been called, came to Lesja as the priest about 1570. He married with Marit, a “land-owning farmer’s daughter,” from Lesja. Some years thereafter Hr. Jens was given the vocation as Provst (Bishop) over all of Gudbrandsdalen valley as well as parish priest at Øyer. Jens also served as judge and magistrate, and participated in numerous legal proceedings.
• Ninth great grandfather Lars Gunnarson Hågå was the lensmann (Sheriff) in Lesja and Dovre. He is known for leading the local farmers in a battle with Scottish mercenaries in 1612. According to tradition he came into the Dovre church during the service led by Jens Jenssen Staby the younger on the 3rd Sunday in August, struck the floor with his battle axe, and announced: ‘The enemy is in our valley!’” He then organized/led the farmers who defeated the Scottish mercenaries in the Battle at Kringen on 26 August 1612. King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway awarded Lars two farms, Hågå and Lannem.
• Ninth great grandfather Jens Jenssen Staby the younger was taken out of his fourth year at Trondhiem's school, and about the year 1600 was assigned as priest in Lesja. There he was initially poverty stricken and of necessity wandered about the parish begging for food. He was priest during the Battle of Kringen.
• Seventh great grandfather Niels Christensen Hofer from Jylland, Danmark was priest in Romedal, Norge (1655 - 1665).
• Sixth great grandfather Johan Buchardsen Madfelt from Jylland, Danmark was priest in Romedal, Norge (1665-1674)
• Fifth great grandfather Major Anders Nielson Wiborg (abt.1650-1718) commanded the fortifications at Elverum, Norway during the last Dano-Norwegian war with Sweden.

New England

In parallel, we pursued my wife's (& children's) family back into colonial New England. Her family touches many parts of early New England history.

• In 1620 her 10th great grandfather John Billington and family arrived on the Mayflower and signed the Mayflower Compact. They were 4 of the 50 who survived the first winter. The Billington family were not Puritans and stood out as blacksheep in the early Plymouth Colony. This was certainly true of young Francis. Before even disembarking from the Mayflower, Bradford tells us of an incident where Francis nearly destroyed the ship while experimenting with gunpowder.
• In 1623, her 8th great grandfather John Sacket was born in what became New Haven, Connecticut (this one is still to be confirmed).
• Before 1632 her 6th great grandfather, William Stevens came to New England, and was dispatched to Gloucester in 1642 as a commissioner appointed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony General Court to organize Gloucester town-affairs. His standing among the early settlers is indicated by the extraordinary grant he received of five hundred acres of land lying between the Chebacco River (now Essex River) and Annisquam River. He also owned the Annisquam Cut.
• In 1635, the 240-ton Angel Gabriel sank in Pemaquid Bay after sailing into the most intense hurricane in New England history. Among the survivors were members of the Andrews family, who settled in an area of Ipswich known as Chebacco & later settled Gloucester as well.
• In 1638 her eighth great grandfather, Rev. Nicholas Street settled at Taunton, MA, where he served as minister until 1659. He had a B.A. at Oxford & an MA at Cambridge. He then joined Rev. John Davenport at New Haven in 1659, and assumed the lead role in 1668 until his death in 1674. He played a role in sheltering the regicides in New Haven.
• In 1661 her 8th great grandfather, Richard Sperry, hid and fed several regicides (judges who convicted Charles I of England) at Judges Cave in New Haven.
• In 1675 her 7th great grandfather, Edward Harraden was a soldier in King Philip’s War in Capt. Joseph Gardner’s company and was wounded in the Great Swamp Fight of 19 December 1675
• In 1692 two women were accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials (but not convicted or executed): 1) 8th great grandmother Elizabeth Austin born 1650 in Massachusetts Bay Colony and died 1704-02-09 in Gloucester and 2) 9th great grandmother Rachel Varney born 1631 in England and died 1707-02-15 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts.
• In 1709 her 6th great grandfather, Captain John Harraden in the service of the Massachusetts Bay Colony took a French privateer off Nahant. In 1711 he was the pilot of the Admiral's flagship, the Montague, in the failed British expedition against New France.
• In 1773 her fourth great grandfather, Samuel Dickerman took part in the Boston Tea Party with shaved head to give the appearance that he was an Indian (Mohawk cut). In 1776 he served as Sergeant in Capt. Goodyears's company during the defense of New York.
• In 1775 her fourth great grandfather, Stephen Russell served in the first battle of the Revolutionary War, the Lexington Alarm, fought in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. British troops from Boston marched toward Lexington & Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. In Concord, advancing British troops met resistance from the Minutemen & were forced to retreat to Boston.
• In 1775 her fifth great grandfather, Robert Smith from Worcester served as a minuteman in the Revolutionary War, along with his brother (Lieutenant John Smith). Both Robert Smith and John Smith "answered the alarm" & marched as minutemen for Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.
• In 1775 and later fifth great grandfather Captain Edmond Brigham served with 1st Massachusetts Bay Provincial Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.
• In 1775 and later fifth great grandfather Fifer/Private Enoch Kingsley served with Putnam’s Third Regiment of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
• In 1776 her fifth great grandfather Caleb Lane and forth great grandfather, Caleb Lane Jr., served during the Revolutionary War in coastal defense at Gloucester, Massachusetts as privates in the 3rd Company commanded by Captain William Pearson.
• In 1776 her fifth great grandfather, Jonathan Dickerman served his country during the Revolutionary War as a juror in 1776; a member of the committee of inspection in 1777, and an inspector of provisions in 1780.
• In 1776 her fourth great grandfather, Sergeant Benajah Beach of Woodbridge, Connecticut served for 7 years in in Colonel Charles Webb's 19th Continental Regiment during the American Revolution.
• In 1776 her fourth great grandfather, Corporal Job Sperry is listed as a member of the 3rd Company, which served at the Siege of Boston. Corporal Job Sperry served in the minute men and volunteers under Captain James Peck's Company of Colonel Enos' Battalion of the Continental Army in the 1777
• In 1777 her 4th great grandfather, Winthrop Sargent, fought with rebel forces when they defeated the British attack in the Battle of Bennington. In 1780 he enlisted with forces led by Captain Andrew Woodberry and served in Rhode Island.
• In 1777 her fourth great grandfather, Lieutenant Joel Bradley (of Mount Carmel), served in the Continental Army.
• In 1777 her fourth great grandfather, Sergeant Benajah Beach served in Woodbridge, Connecticut in Colonel Charles Webb's 19th Continental Regiment during the American Revolution.
• In 1777 her 5th great grandfather John Ball served in the Massachusetts Militia, under Col. Putnam
• In 1779 her 3rd great grandfather, Walter Woodbury, served as a sailor in the Revolutionary War on the privateer General Stark.
• In 1862 - her great grandfather Elizur Beach Russell enlisted in the Army of the North during the Civil War, serving as a Private of Captain Jonathan W. Farley's Company, 15th Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers. Served in the Defenses of Washington, D.C.; Arlington Heights, Va., Fairfax Seminary, Va.; Battle of Fredericksburg; Burnside's 2nd Campaign; "Mud March;" Siege of Suffolk; Reconnaissance to the Chickahominy; Dix's Peninsula Campaign; Battle of Wise’s Fork; discharged at New Haven July 12, 1865.

French Canada

Mother's French Canadian family came next. Her family was relatively easy to research - the church records among the French Canadians were excellent. A portion of the tree goes back to France via Acadia (first ancestor arriving in 1605) and Quebec. Historically interesting ancestors include:

• In 1606 9th great grandfather Louis Hébert (Wikipedia Entry) accompanied Samuel Champlain to Acadia. In the summer of 1606 Hébert sailed with Champlain and Poutrincourt along the coast to the southwest, seeking other sites suitable for settlement. Poutrincourt and Hébert were so attracted by what is now Gloucester, Mass., that they planted a clearing there to test the soil's fertility. He was the first Canadian farmer, and the first apothecary as well as the first officer of justice in New France. He resided first at Port-Royal (now Annapolis, in southern Nova Scotia) from 1606 to 1613 when Port-Royal was destroyed by the English deputy governor of Virginia Samuel Argall. In 1617, with his wife, Marie Rollet, moved to Quebec City, Quebec where he died. Statues of Louis Hébert, Marie Rollet, and their children are prominent in Parc Montmorency overlooking the St. Lawrence River in Quebec City.
• In 1639 10th great grandfather Michel Boudrot was a managing agent in Port Royal, Acadia, and he assumed the duties of a magistrate. By 1686 he served as lieutenant general of the Acadian colony
• In 1640, 9th great grandfather Abraham Dugas arrived in Port-Royal, where he was Lieutenant General and "armourer to the king".
• In 1640 10th great grandfather Germain Doucet was Master at Arms at Pentagöuet in the farthest southern part of Acadia (now Castine, Maine). In 1654 Germain was the Sieur de La Verdure and Master at Arms in Acadia, Adjutant Of Governor D'Aulnay. Germain was the Sieur de La Verdure and Master at Arms in Acadia,[1]Adjutant Of Governor D'Aulnay. He was the Port Royal Commandant at the time of surrender to Roger Sedgwick on 16 Aug 1654.
• In 1641 9th great grandfather Jacques Bourgeois, a military surgeon, arrived at Port Royal, Acadie. Jacques accompanied the governor of Acadia, Charles de Menou d'Aulnay. He married Jeanne Trahan at Port-Royal in 1643 & in 1646, they were granted île aux Cochons, situated in the Dauphin River (today Annapolis River) near Port-Royal. Jacques became a fur trader, a merchant, & built lumber and flour mills. He traded with Bostonians; and also with the Micmac Indians. Jacques was the founder of Beaubassin (now Amherst, Nova Scotia).
• In 1644 9th great grandfather Robert Cormier was a master ships carpenter working in La Rochelle, France. Robert arrived in Acadia in 1644 on the ship Le Petit St-Pierre with his wife Marie Peraud and his son Thomas. He was indentured for 3 years to pay off the cost of passage at Fort St-Pierre (St Peter's, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia).
• Born in 1645, eighth great grandmother Catherine (Baillon) de Baillon (1645-1688) was a noble French immigrant to New France, with her ancestry tracing back to Charlemagne. She was born ~ 1645 in Les Layes, (today Essarts-le-Roi), Île-de-France, France; the daughter of Alphonse Baillon, (Squire and Lord of the Mascotterie) and Louise de Marle.
• 1n 1645 10th great grandfather Isaac Pesseley served as a major at Port Royal. On April 16 1645, Isaac was killed during d'Aulnay's attack on La Tour's Fort on the St. John River, Acadia (now Saint John, New Brunswick).
• In 1651 8th great grandfather Michel Richard was a soldier in the garrison at the fort in Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada). Within two years of Michel's arrival, Port-Royal was captured by Robert Sedgwick, who led 300 British soldiers and volunteers.
• In 1668 through 1674, 7th great grandfather Guyon Chiasson & family lived in Mouchecoudabouet (Musquodoboit Harbour, NS near Halifax). They then moved in 1686 to a farm at Beaubassin, which was prosperous - 40 arpents of cultivated land, 20 cattle, 12 sheep, and 15 hogs
• In 1687 7th great grandfather Pierre Morin's son precipitates a major family trauma. The Sieur Michel Leneuf's oldest daughter Marie Josephte is found to be in the family way. The priest Trouvé accuses Louis Morin, Pierre's second son of having seduced her. LeNeuf imprisons the young man whom he and Trouvé summarily try, condemn, and deport. LeNeuf then expels the whole Morin clan-- father, sons, and sons-in-law-- 19 persons in all, and appropriate their land. The Morin outcasts seek refuge on the Bay of Chaleurs (an arm of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence located between Quebec and New Brunswick).
• In 1680 9th great grandfather Claude Petitpas became a royal notary at Jemseg, Acadia (now Jemseg, New Brunswick) (1680) and later the clerk of the court at Port Royal (1686).[3] He was also known as sieur de La Fleur.
• In 1734 Louis Amirault was born in Port Royal, Nova Scotia to Joseph Amireau and Marguerite Lord. He was one of the Acadians who were expelled in the 1760s by the British from their homeland, so he married Marie Louise Richard in Boston, & lived for some period in Middleton, Connecticut before being allowed to return to L'Assomption, Québec, Canada in 1767.

And onward

Once started, the possibilities of genealogy grow endlessly. We've visited many family places over the years and hope to do so again next year. Several years back we added DNA testing.

Photos

Sources

1. ↑ "Minnesota Births and Christenings, 1840-1980", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FD4C-SNT : 5 February 2020), James Clifford Wiborg, 1946.
2. ↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKLD-DCQC : accessed 9 August 2022), James Wiborg in entry for Lenore Ellen Hermann Wiborg, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, 15 Sep 2009; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Sun Newspapers, born-digital text.
3. ↑ per Clifford Wiborg's Journal
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} U.S., Select Military Registers, 1862-1985
5. ↑ Ancestry U.S. Navy Support Books, 1901-1902, 1917-2010

Research Notes

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Teigum, I. Bygdebok for Vågå og Sel, v. 1 2001 General Up to 1600
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Teigum, I. Bygdebok for Vågå og Sel, v. 4 2009 General Sel and Heidal; 1908-2000

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My Acadian Ancestors

Slekt1 list of bygdeboker http://slekt1.com/index.php/bygdeboker

Alhed Nielsdatter Wiborg married to Bude http://vestraat.net/iea-o/p312.htm and http://www.nose.dk/Norge/budde.html .

Probably related is Her skal vi til Tanum og langt tilbake i tid. Min 7. tipp-oldefar var sogneprest og prost for Tanum og Nordre Bohuslän hans havn var Christen Andersen Stud, gift med Gjertrud Nilsdatter Wiborg, ca 1624- 1683. http://www.gslf.nu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Gr%C3%A4ns-Posten_1995_Jan_Nr-23_OCR.pdf

http://www.nb.no/nbsok/nb/7d68b3dadf3b18e13892cd0319355387?index=1#0

http://www.nb.no/nbsok/nb/934ffeb01c76f48807c83ebe770792e4?index=9#386

http://www.eidangerslekt.org/porsgrunn-slekt/porsgrunn-1762/samuel-viborg-1716.htm

Tools for researching Norway
My current to do list

Wiborg Family Photos
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Notes

Jims Norway Genealogy checklist

Wiborg family photos

Anders Wiborg's descendants in the Norwegian Military.

We find the Norwegian Wiborg families relocating periodically throughout Norway. This is a summary of relocation designed to aid in tracking them to identify relationships

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Wiborg_locations_through_time

Geir Steinart Wiborg: Wiborg Family on the Great Lakes

Dramen family Wiborg

Sources

DNA Verification

• Maternal relationship is confirmed with an AncestryDNA test match between first cousin once removed Jim Wiborg and J. Menard. Predicted relationship reported by AncestryDNA: 2nd Cousins based on sharing 330 centimorgans shared across 21 DNA segments; Confidence: Extremely High.

• Paternal relationship is confirmed by a 338.4 cM match between Jim Wiborg GEDmatch A645720 and his second cousin Anon Sherley GEDmatch M040549.

DNA links to be added

Y DNA possibilities to be explored

As of summer 2019, my Y DNA haplogroup has been identified as R-S18372. The following others on WikiTree have been identified as R-S18372 (if there are no NPEs in the sequence):

• Martin Fesmire (bef. 1745 - aft. 1800)
• Cornelius Halenbeck (1742 - abt. 1800)
• Anders Nielson Wiborg (abt. 1655 - 1718)