{"id":779,"date":"2010-11-17T00:50:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T00:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/kristoffersen-kjell-o\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T11:29:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T11:29:59","slug":"kristoffersen-kjell-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/kristoffersen-kjell-o\/","title":{"rendered":"KRISTOFFERSEN, Kjell O."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6df2a513 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">Name:<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">KRISTOFFERSEN, Kjell O.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">Born:<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Norway, 27 December 1899<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">Died:<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">7 November 1914<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">Age:<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">14 or 20<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">Cemetery:<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/husvik-cemetery\/\">Husvik<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">Grave Ref:<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/explore-husvik-cemetery\/#HKMAP\">6<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">Register of Deaths:<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/register-page-08-items-29-33\/\">29<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">Husvik Grave book:<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/husvik-grave-book-page-3\/\">Page 3<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Husvik Grave Book tells us that Kjell died on board the <em>Orwell,<\/em> a factory ship that worked whalers at Signy in the South Orkneys and continued in use at Husvik until 1953. [Bonner]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The register of Deaths has his age as 20, whereas the dates on his headstone imply that he was only 14. Close inspection of the headstone shows that the date of death has been changed at some time &#8211; a rectangular section of the concrete has been cut out and a new section put in, with the new lettering. At that time the word &#8220;\u0418otero&#8221; was added below in a similar manner. This could be a mis-spelling of the Norwegian area N\u00f8tter\u00f8y, in Vestfold, where many whalers came from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium has-custom-border\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/HK-06-01-L.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/HK-06-01-L-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3851\" style=\"border-width:3px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/HK-06-01-L-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/HK-06-01-L.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kjell Kristoffersen&#8217;s grave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium has-custom-border\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/HK-06-02-L.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/HK-06-02-L-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3854\" style=\"border-width:3px;border-radius:0px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kjell Kristoffersen&#8217;s grave marker detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: KRISTOFFERSEN, Kjell O. Born: Norway, 27 December 1899 Died: 7 November 1914 Age: 14 or 20 Cemetery: Husvik Grave Ref: 6 Register of Deaths: 29 Husvik Grave book: Page 3 The Husvik Grave Book tells us that Kjell died on board the Orwell, a factory ship that worked whalers at Signy in the South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grave","category-person"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/h06am.jpg",300,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/h06am-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/h06am-225x300.jpg",225,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/h06am.jpg",300,400,false],"large":["https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/h06am.jpg",300,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/h06am.jpg",300,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/h06am.jpg",300,400,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"cems-admin","author_link":"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/author\/cems-admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Name: KRISTOFFERSEN, Kjell O. Born: Norway, 27 December 1899 Died: 7 November 1914 Age: 14 or 20 Cemetery: Husvik Grave Ref: 6 Register of Deaths: 29 Husvik Grave book: Page 3 The Husvik Grave Book tells us that Kjell died on board the Orwell, a factory ship that worked whalers at Signy in the South&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/3860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}