Gunleik Jonsson Helland

Deceased Person

1828 – 1863

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Who was Gunleik Jonsson Helland?

Gunleik "Gullik" Jonsson Helland was a Norwegian Hardanger fiddle maker from Bø in Telemark, Norway.

Gunleik Helland, son of the first fiddle maker at Helland cotters farm, worked several years in his father's workshop until he left Bø and went to Horten, Norway and became a steam machine engineer in the Navy.

He died 1863 in the North Atlantic when his ship D/S Rjukan, from Bugge's shipowners in Bergen, Norway sank south of Iceland.

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Born
1828
Died
1863

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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