Vidar Bottelsen - this is your life.

Vidar Bottelsen -who was that.

This is a little blog of what I have gleaned from the records about Vidar Bottelsen.

Vidar Christian Bottelsen, born 20th of April, 1873, to Bernt Andreas Bottelsen, and Ida Kristine Ehn in Christiania, Norway. Both his parents were actors. Unfortunatly, Ida's acting carrier ended with the birth of Vidar, as she passed away the day after he was born, in child birth fever. This may also have been the ending of Bernts acting carrier. He became the overcontroller at the Kristiania Theater.

19 years old, he left Norway in 1892 on the ship Hekla, He came through Ellis Island, and settled in the Chicago area.

Two year later, in 1894, his dad, Bernt Andreas, passed away.


He lived in the Chicago 14th Ward in 1900, during the 1900 census, lodging with the Dahl family.


Vidar found himself a girl, Anna P., whom he later married. She was also of Norwegian decent. If they knew eachother in Norway, have yet to be determined. She was a year older then him.

They became parents of Vivian Bottelsen the 19th of October 1910. If she had any children, have yet to be determined. She did however pass away in 7th of November, 1997 using her maiden name, Bottelsen.

This is his 1910 census record.

He was on the draft record for the 1917/18 draft.

Here is the 1920 census record. They called him Vidar Bottelson in this census, but I found him anyway.

The last census that have been releast is the 1930 census. He was called Vidar Battelsen in this census, but even with that spelling did I find him.

He must be alive still, for I could not find a death record for him in the Social Security Death Index. (If that was the case, he would be about 135 years old by now).