Joakim was the 7th of 11 children born to Søren Sørensen Normann and Karen Margrethe Ellingsen. As a young man he was skipper on his father's sloop and sailed out of Bergen,where he met his bride, Susanne Sophie Krum. He later was a trader out of Venset in Salten, Norway. He bought the property Vassvik, featured on TV NRK in Norway as : Jovik, Vassvik, "Der ingen kunne tru, at nokon kunne bu" "Where no one could believe that someone could live" !! Joakim and wife Susanne bought an area midway between Røsvik and Sjunkan called Færøy, and built a sawmill and recruited several families to live here, by providing them with land ( called "crofts", which was common at the time,) They were encouraged to settle in the area. He and Susanne envisioned building a new center in Folda, but strong competition from several other sawmills and low flows in the river strained finances and the Normanns had to sell off some land to survive. When his wife died in June 1903 and son Albert Elias Normann died at sea in August of the same year, the project was given up. This biography was provided by Tore Andreassen and translated by Jeri Stewart.
Joakim was the 7th of 11 children born to Søren Sørensen Normann and Karen Margrethe Ellingsen. As a young man he was skipper on his father's sloop and sailed out of Bergen,where he met his bride, Susanne Sophie Krum. He later was a trader out of Venset in Salten, Norway. He bought the property Vassvik, featured on TV NRK in Norway as : Jovik, Vassvik, "Der ingen kunne tru, at nokon kunne bu" "Where no one could believe that someone could live" !! Joakim and wife Susanne bought an area midway between Røsvik and Sjunkan called Færøy, and built a sawmill and recruited several families to live here, by providing them with land ( called "crofts", which was common at the time,) They were encouraged to settle in the area. He and Susanne envisioned building a new center in Folda, but strong competition from several other sawmills and low flows in the river strained finances and the Normanns had to sell off some land to survive. When his wife died in June 1903 and son Albert Elias Normann died at sea in August of the same year, the project was given up. This biography was provided by Tore Andreassen and translated by Jeri Stewart.
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