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NORWEGIAN EMIGRATION - THE DEBORA EXPEDITION SUMMARY The Debora Expedition sailed from Bergen in 1879 to establish a Norwegian colony on an Indian Ocean atoll called Aldabra. The organisers endeavoured to find practical and Christian people to create a settlement based on the teachings of the Norwegian preacher Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771 -1824). The expedition was aborted in Madagascar - a few of the participants remained in Madagascar and the rest settled in the British colony of Port Natal (Durban). They were the first group of Norwegian emigrants to settle in Port Natal. The forty-seven persons who took part in the Debora Expedition were:- Captain Tobiassen and wife, mate Berentsen and wife, mate Oftedal, A Olsen and wife, I Iversen and wife, O Heidalsvig and wife (Høidalsvig), J Finsen and wife, K Bang and wife with three children (Amanda, Severin and Knut), F Larsen and wife with six children (Angel, Emil, Sigvart, the three sons of the late Sivert Andersen Hordnes, and Petra, Ludvig and Karl), H Johnsen and wife with three children (Sina, Josefine and Karl), A Andreassen and wife with three children (I don't remember their names), R Andersen, R Rasmussen, K Jensen, Hesselberg, Grang, O Fosdal, E Eriksen, P Bang, E Ellingsen, widow Egelandsdal and Miss Serene Larsen. Two children were born on the voyage: a son to Mr and Mrs F Larsen and a son to Mr and Mrs Andreassen. |
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Knud Olai Bang was born at Fritzberg farm in Borgund parish, near Alesund on Sep. 16, 1831. He was the son of Knud Bang and Andrine Olsdatter. His first marriage was to Christine Johanne Hansen and they had six children: Karolina Larsine born 1856 Borgund, Petra born 1858 Borgund, Christian born 1860 (5 June) Borgund, Hermanda Bergitte born 24 Feb. 1863, Severin Andreas born 13 Dec. 1865 Bergen, Knud Olai born 7 Dec. 1866 Bergen. As a widower Knud Bang, on his return from Madagascar married Hansine Martine Ingebrigtsen (nee Monsen), a widow, in Bergen on Oct. 16, 1875. Hansine Martine Ingebrigtsen was born in 1837 in Bergen, the daughter of Hans H. Monsen and Caroline Rosenburg. On July 19, 1879 Knud Olai Bang, his wife Hansine Martine Ingebrigtsen, and three children, Hermanna (Amanda), Severin and Knut, left Bergen on the small vessel "Debora", to emigrate to Madagascar. His son Christian Bang had remained there. Larsine Caroline Bang had married Carl Johan Bjorseth Dec. 26, 1876, and Petra Andrine had married Lars Jensen Hvidsten Dec. 13, 1878, and they stayed in Norway. There is probably more information documented about the Bang family than any other Debora family or passenger: See: 
Michael B. Fisk: Debora Passengers
Incidents in the life of Severin Andreas Bang as told to his daughter Inga
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