Elisabeth (Lisbeth) Ottesdatter Orning til Vatna og Valvatna (Abt. 1590 - 1676)

Elisabeth Ottesdatter Orning was born abt. 1590 on Vatna farm, Stord, Hordaland County, Norway. She died in 1676 on Torsnes farm, Jondal, Hordaland County, Norway. She was daugther of Otte Thomassen Orning and Anna Eriksdatter Orm til Vatna og Valvatne. Elisabeth married Lauritz Johannessen Galte abt. 1610. They had 7 children:

1. Laurits Lauritssen Galtung, b. abt. 1610, d. 1661 on Huseby farm, Vanse, Vest-Agder County, Norway, m(1) Clara Geere d. 1647, m(2) Barbara Grabow til Pederstrup, b. abt. 1630, d. 1695.
2. Johan Lauritssen Galtung, b. bef. 1630, d. abt. 1655, had nobility confirmed in 1648 along with his brother, and was then recorded as owning lands in Jylland in Denmark, but was not mentioned in his father's probate in 1660.
3. Magdalena Christine Lauritsdatter Galtung, b. bef. 1630, d. 1681, married the parish priest in Strandebarm, Rasmus Pedersen, abt. 1650.
4. Kirsten Lauritsdatter Galtung, b. bef. 1630, m. the parish priest at Avaldsnes, Kristen Benson Skåning, bef. 1660.
5. Elisabet Lauritsdatter Galtung, m. the parish priest in Skånevik, Elias Anderssen.
6. Anna Lauritsdatter Galtung, d. bef. 1666, m. the chaplain at Torvastad, Tomas Wegner, bef. 1660.
7. Catharina Helvig Lauritsdatter Galtung, b. 1635, d. 1693, m. the parish priest in Eidfjord, Anders Andersson Rieber, bef. 1660.

Elisabeth's burial was held on Sep. 20, 1676 in Jondal church. Her name was then written as Lisebets Orning. (See on the right side).

About Torsnes farm:

........At the beginning of the 1600s Lauritz Johannesson Galte, took over the farm, and he was one of the biggest landowners in Hardanger. He owned 53 farms and parts of farms. He was married to Elisabeth Orning from Stord, who cultivated medicinal herbs in her garden. Their son Lauritz (born around 1610) was expelled from the country after killing his relative, Axel Mowat jr, in a duel. One year later the king called him home again. Lauritz Galtung became an admiral and received the King’s seal on his nobility in 1648. He then assumed the name Galtung. Lars Hamre has pointed out that Sigurd Galte and Sigurd on Torsnes must be two different persons, and that there is unlikely to be any connection between the family of the king’s representative in Kvinnherad and the medieval family at Torsnes.

Note: The text above is a part of the text about Torsnes farm, and I've borrowed it from this site: https://www.grind.no/en/hardanger/jondal/torsnes.

One of the farms on Torsnes, dated abt. 1980. Photo: Elin Galtung Lihaug. 1)

1) Kolltveit, Olav: Jondal i gamal og ny tid, page 703 - 1704.
SAB, Strandebarm Sokneprestembete, H/Haa: Parish register (official) no. A 1, 1670-1726, p. 19.